Richard Sale

Assassination

Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.

Release Date: 1987-01-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 86

The White Buffalo

In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.

Release Date: 1977-05-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 127

Accidental Family

Accidental Family is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC during the first part of the 1967-68 U.S. television season.

Release Date: 1967-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The High Chaparral

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.

Release Date: 1967-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 22

Custer

Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.

Release Date: 1967-09-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

The Oscar

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

Release Date: 1966-03-04

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 14

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

Release Date: 1965-09-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 23

Bewitched

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

Release Date: 1964-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 692

Torpedo Run

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Release Date: 1958-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 24

Yancy Derringer

Yancy Derringer is an American Western series

Release Date: 1958-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 9

Abandon Ship

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.

Release Date: 1957-03-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 24

Over-Exposed

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.

Release Date: 1956-04-01

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 16

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Release Date: 1955-10-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

Woman's World

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Release Date: 1954-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 18

Suddenly

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

Release Date: 1954-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 105

Malaga

A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.

Release Date: 1954-06-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

The French Line

Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.

Release Date: 1954-02-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

Let's Do It Again

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.

Release Date: 1953-06-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

The Girl Next Door

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.

Release Date: 1953-05-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

My Wife's Best Friend

When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

Let's Make It Legal

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.

Release Date: 1951-10-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 15

Meet Me After the Show

A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.

Release Date: 1951-08-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Half Angel

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.

Release Date: 1951-05-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

I'll Get By

I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There Will Never Be Another You", and other favorites (the rights to all of these songs were conveniently held by 20th Century-Fox). The partnership has some hard times, especially during the feud between ASCAP and the radio networks, when only public-domain songs like "I Dream of Jeannie" were permitted to be broadcast.

Release Date: 1950-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

This Side of the Law

A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.

Release Date: 1950-06-17

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 14

A Ticket to Tomahawk

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.

Release Date: 1950-05-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 17

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

Release Date: 1950-02-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13

Father Was a Fullback

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.

Release Date: 1949-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.

Release Date: 1949-04-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

Mother Is a Freshman

Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.

Release Date: 1949-03-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Lady at Midnight

A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.

Release Date: 1948-08-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Dude Goes West

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.

Release Date: 1948-05-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

The Inside Story

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.

Release Date: 1948-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

Campus Honeymoon

Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka University until they find lodgings in the school's overcrowded quarters. They pretend they are married to get the last two units in the married veteran's housing project, with the girls in one unit and the boys in the other. A noisy kid, Junior Ormsbee, the nephew of the landlords, voices his suspicions and nearly gets them evicted. And a U.S. Senator, investigating veteran's projects, adds new complications.

Release Date: 1948-02-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Driftwood

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Release Date: 1947-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Mailman

Vote Count: 7

Northwest Outpost

US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).

Release Date: 1947-06-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Spoilers of the North

When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.

Release Date: 1947-04-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Calendar Girl

Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely

Release Date: 1947-01-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

Rendezvous with Annie

A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.

Release Date: 1946-07-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Flight Clerk

Vote Count: 1

Strange Cargo

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Release Date: 1940-03-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 52

Shadows Over Shanghai

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.

Release Date: 1938-10-14

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 3