Harold D. Schuster Trailers
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A highly regarded editor (he cut the classic Sunrise (1927) ), Harold D. Schuster started out in films as an actor. It didn't take him long to abandon that career, and he turned to the production side of the business, working his way up to editor and eventually taking the reins as a director. While much of his directorial output is routine, there are some real gems scattered throughout. My Friend Flicka (1943) is a beautiful, serene tale of a boy and a spectacular horse and was a major success in its day. Although typed as an "outdoors" director, Schuster could turn out tough, gritty little thrillers when he wanted to, such as Loophole (1954), about a bank teller who gets framed for an embezzlement; it ranks right up there with the edgy crime dramas of Don Siegel and Phil Karlson. Schuster's western Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957), despite its potboiler title, is a sharp, well-paced effort about two disparate groups of travelers who must band together to fight off rampaging Indians. Good writing, a rousing score and Schuster's tight direction raise this several notches above the product normally churned out by its studio, the usually low-grade Allied Artists. Schuster eventually turned to series television, and finished out his career there.
Most Popular Harold D. Schuster Trailers
Total trailers found: 51
13 November 1931
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest.
08 October 1931
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg.
23 February 1940
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
25 October 1934
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal.
11 August 1957
The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble.
06 August 1938
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
30 September 1940
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
13 February 1942
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio.
01 June 1930
Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces in Morocco fighting against the rule of the French in north Africa.
28 March 1954
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage.
01 May 1952
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
08 August 1954
An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
09 October 1955
To redeem his father's wrongdoings, Ericson joins the law to fight outlaws.
28 April 1933
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals.
13 October 1929
The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899.
11 July 1944
A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
08 March 1940
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
09 October 1942
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
03 January 1948
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
15 September 1933
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
04 November 1927
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
15 March 1940
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing.
09 March 1930
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
03 October 1928
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.
27 June 1941
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
29 November 1948
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny.
03 July 1942
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
01 January 1958
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate.
15 June 1955
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
26 October 1930
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War.
26 February 1946
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s.
05 December 1954
The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules.
11 January 1931
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
09 December 1929
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband.
07 November 1941
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
13 October 1938
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior.
02 August 1940
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
04 October 1925
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route.
16 February 1955
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
26 May 1943
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, his father, Rob, blames the boy's lack of personal responsibility.
24 November 1932
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.
28 August 1957
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.
04 August 1932
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
10 November 1939
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
19 February 1937
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
05 August 1943
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe.
05 November 1938
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
08 November 1953
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
01 July 1957
A young boy is given a colt to raise as his own.
26 November 1937
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
01 January 1957
On a cross-country Greyhound bus, passengers give historically dubious summaries of major landmarks. Riders include a grieving father of a fallen soldier and C-list celebrities of the 1950s.
