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Richard Sale, (17 December 1911, New York – 4 March 1993, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and film director. He started his career writing for the pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in Detective Fiction Weekly (with the Daffy Dill series), Argosy, Double Detective, and a number of other magazines. In the Forties, he graduated to slick publications like The Country Gentleman and The Saturday Evening Post. In the mid-Forties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. A big boost to Sale's success was his novel Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep, filmed as Strange Cargo (1940) starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. He directed several films, including A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950), Meet Me After the Show (1951) with Betty Grable, Let's Make It Legal (1951) with one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest film appearances, Suddenly (1954), Malaga (1954), and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell. He also authored many screenplays, The French Line (1954) and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, both with Mary Loos, The Oscar (1966) and Assassination (1987) Together with his wife, they created the TV series Yancy Derringer.
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Total trailers found: 36
02 October 1950
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).
01 April 1956
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia.
01 February 1948
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.
15 August 1948
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
13 May 1953
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.
30 May 1948
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are.
04 March 1966
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom.
12 March 1957
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.
14 March 1948
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.
15 September 1947
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
22 July 1946
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.
23 April 1947
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.
01 May 1977
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream.
09 January 1987
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce).
08 February 1954
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
09 October 1952
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.
30 September 1949
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.
17 September 1954
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.
31 January 1947
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.
17 February 1950
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.
19 May 1950
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business.
16 June 1953
Composer Gary Stuart and his wife, Connie, have an argument over her alleged affair. The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw.
31 October 1951
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
01 March 1940
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
29 October 1955
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere.
30 September 1954
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.
25 June 1947
US cavalry officer James Laurence arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory.
24 June 1954
A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
24 October 1958
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
05 May 1951
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.
15 August 1951
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
14 October 1938
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
15 April 1949
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
12 March 1949
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.
17 June 1950
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.
08 January 1937
A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject was responsible for his wife's murder.
