John T. Neville — Playwright (9)
Atlantic Adventure (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Atlantic Adventure
director: Albert S. Rogell actor: Nancy Carroll / Lloyd Nolan
other title: Una aventura trasatlántica / Aventure transatlantique
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Drums of the Desert (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Drums of the Desert
director: George Waggner actor: Ralph Byrd / Lorna Gray
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancée of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul. Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan, a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Addullah, an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali.
Billy the Kid (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Billy the Kid
director: King Vidor actor: Johnny Mack Brown / Wallace Beery
other title: Geächtet, gefürchtet, geliebt - Billy the Kid / Billy el niño : El terror de la pradera
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
The Flying Serpent (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Flying Serpent
director: Sam Newfield actor: George Zucco / Hope Kramer
other title: La serpiente voladora
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.