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Great Day in the Morning (1956)

The Silver Chalice (1955)

Written for Screen by

The Long Wait (1954)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

No Way Out (1950)

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

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Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe He'd Like A Little Raw Hamburger

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque

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Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Great Day in the Morning (1956)

The Silver Chalice (1955)

Written for Screen by

The Long Wait (1954)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

No Way Out (1950)

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

Tonight and Every Night (1945)

The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Unholy Partners (1941)

Bitter Sweet (1940)

The Earl of Chicago (1940)

Strange Cargo (1940)

Climbing High (1938)

Sailing Along (1938)

Adapted and dial

You're in the Army Now (1937)

Original Screenplay

It's Love Again (1936)

Original Screenplay

Producer (Feature Film)

The Silver Chalice (1955)

Associate Producer

The Long Wait (1954)

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Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe He'd Like A Little Raw Hamburger New Mexico highway cafe business booming for Lorraine (Jan Sterling) as word of her husband trapped in the cave spreads, scheming reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) recruits the sheriff (Ray Teal) who joins him pressuring the engineer (Frank Jaquet), in Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole 1951.

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque Hard-luck big city newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has rolled into Albuquerque, because his car broke down, introducing himself to local editor Boot (Porter Hall) with a proposition, opening Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Federber Genuine New Mexico newsman Bob Bumpas reporting as director Billy Wilder's "everyman" Ferderber (Frank Cady) and wife (Geraldine Hall) are interviewed, circus atmosphere growing in Ace In The Hole, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas.

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Mountain Of The Seven Vultures Enterprising newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) emerging from the New Mexico cave where a tourist-trap operator is stuck, tangling with a deputy (Gene Evans) then the wife (Jan Sterling), and calling his editor, in Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Had A Cave-In Jaded reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) and cub Herbie (Bob Arthur) have stumbled into a story headed west from Albuquerque, meeting Lorraine (Jan Sterling), her father-in-law (John Berkes) and a deputy sheriff (Gene Evans), early in Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Anatomy Is Terrible Opening with 20-year-old Shirley Temple, now a young married mom, loaned out with her husband John Agar by David Selznick to RKO, with a narrated gag and encounters with Regina Wallace her teacher and Robert Young her minister father, in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949.

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Little People Home early in 1905, expelled from boarding school for her liberal views about art, Shirley Temple as aspiring painter Dinah with her brother (Johnny Sands), the family maid (Tillie Born) and her mother (Josephine Hutchinson), in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949, from a story Lesser Samuels and Christopher Isherwood, also starring Temple’s husband John Agar.

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Making Flutter Eyes In the church where her father is pastor and her mother (Josephine Hutchinson) directs the choir, aspiring artist Dinah (Shirley Temple), expelled from boarding school for her progressive views, observes her childhood sweetheart Tom (John Agar, Temple’s husband) with his new gal (Carol Brannan), in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949.

No Way Out (1950) -- (Movie Clip) A Spinal Tap Young resident Brooks (Sidney Poitier) is covering at the prison ward, treating unconscious Johnny (Dick Paxton) and his also-wounded racist brother Ray (Richard Widmark), early in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's No Way Out, 1950.

No Way Out (1950) -- (Movie Clip) How Do Those Babes Do It In The Movies? Edie (Linda Darnell) has just refused doctors Wharton (Stephen McNally) and young Brooks (Sidney Poitier) permission to do an autopsy on her dead ex, leading to bitter debriefing, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's No Way Out, 1950.

No Way Out (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Any Other Good Doctor Pretty gritty opening scene, ambulance dispatching, and the introduction of young doctor Brooks (Sidney Poitier) and his mentor Wharton (Stephen McNally), in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's No Way Out, 1950.

Silver Chalice, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Fear Not My Eaglet Ambitious magician Simon (Jack Palance) entertaining Roman soldiers in Antioch, with sexy assistant Helena (Virginia Mayo), wild ancient sorcery in The Silver Chalice, 1955.

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