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Willis Goldbeck is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and treatment American born on 24 october 1898 at New York City (USA)
Willis Goldbeck (24 October 1898 – 17 September 1979) was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 40 films between 1923 and 1962. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1951. Willis graduated from Worcester Academy.
Willis Goldbeck was born in New York City, a former journalist, Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s. He wrote most of the "Dr. Kildare" series for MGM, starting with the first one, Young Dr. Kildare (1938), and directed several of them. Although he directed several more films after that—including one of Burt Lancaster's more enjoyable early swashbucklers, Ten Tall Men (1951)--he mainly concentrated on screenwriting, and in the mid-'50s turned to producing. He retired from films in 1962. He died September 17, 1979 in Sag Harbor, New York, a month before his 81st birthday.
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Willis Goldbeck was born in New York City, a former journalist, Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s. He wrote most of the "Dr. Kildare" series for MGM, starting with the first one, Young Dr. Kildare (1938), and directed several of them. Although he directed several more films after that—including one of Burt Lancaster's more enjoyable early swashbucklers, Ten Tall Men (1951)--he mainly concentrated on screenwriting, and in the mid-'50s turned to producing. He retired from films in 1962. He died September 17, 1979 in Sag Harbor, New York, a month before his 81st birthday.
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Ten Tall Men (1951)
, 1h33Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes French war films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gerald Mohr, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias
Rating60%
After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, Sergeant Mike Kincaid (Lancaster) is imprisoned himself for striking a lieutenant (Stephen Bekassy) who beats a French woman (Mari Blanchard) with his riding crop for preferring Kincaid to him. Kincaid has a longstanding rivalry with the lieutenant, but the lieutenant is now in command of the company holding the city of Tarfa while the regiment is away. As the ranking officer, the lieutenant uses Kincaid's striking of him to get his revenge.
Johnny Holiday (1949)
, 1h30Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors William Bendix, Stanley Clements, Hoagy Carmichael, George Cisar
Rating72%
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Dark Delusion (1947)
, 1h30Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Craig, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Bremer, Edward Arnold, Jayne Meadows, Henry Stephenson
Rating60%
Dr. Gillespie (Barrymore) asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt (Craig), to go to the small town of Bayhurst to replace a local doctor while he is on assignment to the Occupation effort in post-WWII Europe. There, Coalt is asked to sign mental-health commitment papers on a beautiful young socialite, Cynthia Grace (Bremer). Coalt thinks there is something amiss, and begins his own investigation.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
, 1h33Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden, Bonita Granville, Lina Romay, Fay Holden
Rating58%
The story starts in the small town of Carvel, where the honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) and his wife Emily (Fay Holden) eagerly await their son's return from the military. Andy (Mickey Rooney) has received an honorable discharge from the Army after a service of two years. His parents are unaware of the fact that Andy is looking to get back with his college sweetheart Kay (Bonita Granville). One day soon after Andy's homecoming, his mother Emily observes him looking at store window displays of wedding rings and baby clothing, and suspects that her son must be in love. Emily's suspicions are soon confirmed when Andy, who usually has had an eye for girls, barely notices the very attractive singer, Isobel Gonzales (Lina Romay), when they are introduced.
She Went to the Races (1945)
, 1h26Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn, Sig Ruman, Reginald Owen
Rating59%
Dr. Ann Wotters, working at the Brockhurst Institute of Research in Los Angeles, is devastated when she learns that her uncle, Dr. Homer Pecke, will be let off because the institute can't afford to keep him on staff and his research project running. The institute would need another $20,000 to afford Pecke's services.
Between Two Women (1945)
, 1h23Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Keenan Wynn, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger
Rating59%
This episode in the series should have been called Between Three Women, because there are plot strands involving three, not two, women. Dr. Gillespie's (Lionel Barrymore) assistant, Dr. Red Adams (Van Johnson), is still fending off the romantic advances of beautiful blond socialite and social worker Ruth Edley (Marilyn Maxwell), who finally succeeds in winning Red's heart. The second woman is a pretty night club singer Edna (Gloria DeHaven), who collapses suddenly one night after a show and cannot understand why she is no longer able to eat. Red finds out that a complicated subconscious obsession is the cause. The third woman is Sally (Marie Blake), the reliable and wise-cracking switchboard operator in all of the episodes. Sally is stricken with Bright's Disease and refuses to let anyone besides Red operate on her ailing kidney. Things turn out well for Red and all three women.
Rationing (1944)
, 1h33Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Genres Comedy
Actors Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Howard Freeman, Connie Gilchrist, Dorothy Morris
Rating60%
Ben Barton, grocer in Tuttleton, is trying to get gas coupons from the local rationing board, but instead he gets a lecture on thrift from the head of the board, his enemy since twenty years, Iris Tuttle.
3 Men in White (1944)
, 1h25Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Keye Luke, Ava Gardner, Alma Kruger
Rating60%
Dr. Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
3 Men in White (1944)
, 1h25Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Ava Gardner, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger
Rating60%
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger, Margaret O'Brien, Nat Pendleton
Rating60%
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Stephen McNally, Susan Peters, Nat Pendleton, Richard Quiney
Rating61%
Physically challenged Dr. Leonard Gillespie at the Blair General Hospital is exhausted from extensive work hours, to the point that his friends see the need for an intervention. They force him to get an assistant. Gillespie is quite picky, and only three young doctors at the hospital can answer the hard quiz question he asks to make his selection: Dr. Lee Wong How from Brooklyn, Dr. Randall Adams from Kansas City and Dr. Dennis Lindsay from Woolloomooloo, Australia. Gillespie takes them all three as temporary assistants until he can decide which one he will make his regular.
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, 2h3Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode
Rating80%
Senator Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) arrive by train in the frontier town of Shinbone, in an unnamed western state, to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). As they make their way toward the undertaker's establishment to pay their respects to the deceased, a reporter (Joseph Hoover) and his editor, Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young) approach and ask Stoddard to explain why a United States Senator would make the long journey from Washington just to attend the funeral of a local rancher.
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
, 1h51Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Woody Strode, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Juano Hernández, Willis Bouchey
Roles Writer
Rating73%
The film revolves around the court-martial of 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge (Strode), a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 9th U.S. Cavalry. His defense is handled by Lt. Tom Cantrell (Hunter), Rutledge's troop officer. The story is told through a series of flashbacks, expanding the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events following the murder of Rutledge's Commanding Officer, Major Dabney, and the rape and murder of Dabney's daughter, for which Rutledge is the accused.
The Colossus of New York (1958)
, 1h10Directed by Eugène Lourié
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Ross Martin, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert, Ed Wolff
Roles Story
Rating57%
Jeremy Spensser (Ross Martin), the brilliant young scion of a New York family of scientists and humanitarians, is killed in an automobile accident. His death occurs on the eve of his winning the "International Peace Prize," and he leaves behind a wife (Marla Powers) and young son (Charles Herbert).
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
, 1h20Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Dame Thora Hird, Donald Stewart, Cyril Chamberlain, Lisa Daniely
Rating58%
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. But his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.