Frank Shaw (Director)
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Works
The Frisco Kid
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
Release Date: 1979-07-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 155
Co-Ed Fever
Co-Ed Fever is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979. CBS cancelled Co-Ed Fever after only one episode, and all three series were off the air by the end of April 1979. The series was so low rated it never made it to its regular time slot, Monday night, instead having aired as a "special preview" the night before. In 2002, Co-Ed Fever ranked number 32 on TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list.
Release Date: 1979-02-04
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Black Bart
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
Release Date: 1975-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
Operation Petticoat
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Release Date: 1959-12-05
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 376
Imitation of Life
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Release Date: 1959-06-26
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 289
The Wild and the Innocent
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Release Date: 1959-05-27
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 20
Kathy O'
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
Release Date: 1958-09-24
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 1
Once Upon a Horse...
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.
Release Date: 1958-09-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 2
This Happy Feeling
Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine. When she thinks Bill is making advances too, she flees into a rainstorm and ends up at the house of his neighbor, retired actor Preston Mitchell. Preston hires her as his secretary, and soon both men are pursuing Janet.
Release Date: 1958-06-18
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 4
Joe Dakota
A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.
Release Date: 1957-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 6
My Man Godfrey
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Release Date: 1957-10-11
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 22
Man Afraid
A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
Release Date: 1957-04-04
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 4
Congo Crossing
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.
Release Date: 1956-07-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 11
Toy Tiger
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
Release Date: 1956-06-29
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 3
Star in the Dust
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
Release Date: 1956-06-13
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 19
The Square Jungle
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
Release Date: 1955-12-30
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 6
The Spoilers
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Release Date: 1955-12-23
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 6
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
Release Date: 1955-11-02
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 15
Man Without a Star
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Release Date: 1955-03-24
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 108
Playgirl
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the recriminations...and bullets...start to fly!
Release Date: 1954-04-21
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 10
Border River
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
Release Date: 1954-01-06
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 19
War Arrow
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
Release Date: 1953-12-26
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 21
Desert Legion
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
Release Date: 1953-05-08
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 6
It Happens Every Thursday
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
Release Date: 1953-04-22
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 4
Girls in the Night
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Release Date: 1953-01-15
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 4
The World in His Arms
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Release Date: 1952-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 34
Sally and Saint Anne
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Release Date: 1952-07-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 2
The Raging Tide
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
Release Date: 1951-11-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 18
Mystery Submarine
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
Release Date: 1950-12-01
Department: Directing
Job: Second Unit Director
Vote Count: 1
Spy Hunt
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
Release Date: 1950-06-08
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 9
One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Release Date: 1950-04-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 26
Woman in Hiding
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Release Date: 1950-01-06
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 37
The Lady Gambles
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Release Date: 1949-05-20
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 31
The Saxon Charm
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Release Date: 1948-09-28
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 3
All My Sons
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Release Date: 1948-05-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 28
A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Release Date: 1947-12-25
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 69
The Egg and I
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
Release Date: 1947-05-01
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 43
Temptation
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
Release Date: 1946-12-02
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 9
Christmas Holiday
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
Release Date: 1944-07-31
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 33
His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Release Date: 1943-11-26
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 8
Hers to Hold
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
Release Date: 1943-07-16
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 7
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Release Date: 1943-02-19
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 8
Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Release Date: 1941-10-31
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 6
It's a Date
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Release Date: 1940-03-22
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 7
The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Release Date: 1938-06-09
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 17
The Story of Louis Pasteur
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Release Date: 1936-02-22
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 46
The Petrified Forest
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Release Date: 1936-02-08
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 197
A Lost Lady
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Release Date: 1934-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 10
Gambling Lady
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
Release Date: 1934-03-08
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 17
Mandalay
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Release Date: 1934-02-10
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 15
Ever in My Heart
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Release Date: 1933-10-28
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 12
The Mayor of Hell
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Release Date: 1933-06-24
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 28
Mystery of the Wax Museum
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Release Date: 1933-02-18
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 136
State's Attorney
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Release Date: 1932-05-20
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 7
The Star Witness
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Release Date: 1931-08-22
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 16
Night Nurse
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Release Date: 1931-07-16
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 78
The Singing Fool
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
Release Date: 1928-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 5
State Street Sadie
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.
Release Date: 1928-08-25
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
The Lion and the Mouse
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating the appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.
Release Date: 1928-05-21
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Pay as You Enter
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.
Release Date: 1928-05-12
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Sailor Izzy Murphy
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Release Date: 1927-10-08
Department: Directing
Job: Second Unit Director