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Warren Duff (May 17, 1904 – August 5, 1973) was a film and television writer and producer.
As a writer, Duff wrote for films including, Fashions of 1934, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Experiment Perilous (1944), Step Lively (1944), Chicago Deadline (1949) and Appointment with Danger (1951)
He worked on television programs including The Rogues (1965), The Invaders, (1967) and Mannix (1967).
Duff, the producer of the film noir classic Out of the Past (1947), was once an actor and director on the New York City stage before turning to screenwriting when he entered the film business in 1931.
Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar, Best Motion Picture, for Chicago Deadline (1949); shared with: Tiffany Thayer; 1950.
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21 February 1932
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
12 July 1934
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
19 August 1943
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings.
04 August 1933
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money.
17 August 1933
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
03 November 1949
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her.
27 March 1932
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
25 May 1935
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
30 November 1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
27 August 1937
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy.
25 November 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
10 November 1934
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out.
01 March 1934
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra.
11 July 1944
A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
27 December 1950
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
05 March 1934
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
13 December 1931
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life.
19 February 1944
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
19 August 1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
28 July 1934
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again.
26 November 1938
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
19 May 1951
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes.
10 December 1949
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.
03 August 1955
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans.
12 March 1933
When a wife and mother abandons her family for the footlights of Broadway, then dies in a tragic accident, revealing long-held secrets, the husband turns to alcohol to cope.
23 February 1935
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
27 November 1932
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames).
06 March 1937
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
27 November 1937
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer.
07 April 1950
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.
28 December 1936
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company.
14 February 1934
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
11 March 1939
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord.
30 December 1939
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
11 June 1938
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy.
26 May 1934
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
12 July 1952
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator.
25 March 1954
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
14 May 1932
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
18 December 1944
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida.
20 April 1940
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution.
10 April 1936
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
27 July 1935
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
11 April 1941
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots.
31 October 1943
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero.
26 July 1944
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
09 April 1943
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
17 May 1947
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
06 February 1937
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
