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Joel Sayre is a Scriptwriter American born on 13 december 1900
Joel Sayre (December 13, 1900 – September 9, 1979) was an American screenwriter born in Southampton, New York. His most famous screenplay was for Parole. He died on the September 9, 1979 of heart failure.
His daughter was the film critic and essayist, Nora Sayre.
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His daughter was the film critic and essayist, Nora Sayre.
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Fourteen Hours (1951)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about suicide, Children's films
Actors Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith
Roles Story
Rating70%
Early one morning, a room service waiter at a New York City hotel is horrified to discover that the young man to whom he has just delivered breakfast (Richard Basehart) is standing on the narrow ledge outside his room on the fifteenth floor. Charlie Dunnigan (Paul Douglas), a policeman on traffic duty in the street below, tries to talk him off the ledge to no avail. He is ordered back to traffic patrol by police emergency services deputy chief Moksar (Howard Da Silva). But he is ordered to return when the man on the ledge will not speak to psychiatrists summoned to the scene. Coached by a psychiatrist (Martin Gabel), Dunnigan tries to relate to the man on the ledge as one human to another.
Gunga Din (1939)
, 1h57Directed by Robert Parrish, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Poésie, Political films, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine
Roles Ecrivain
Rating71%
On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message. Colonel Weed (Montagu Love) dispatches a detachment of 25 British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers, MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Cutter (Cary Grant), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), long-time friends and veteran campaigners. Although they are a disciplinary headache for their colonel, they are the right men to send on a dangerous mission. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen.
The Toast of New York (1937)
, 1h49Directed by Rowland V. Lee, Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Actors Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, Thelma Leeds
Rating62%
In post-Civil War America, unscrupulous, ambitious partners Jim Fisk (Arnold) and Nick Boyd (Grant) talk tight-fisted businessman Daniel Drew (Donald Meek) into selling them his shipping company, paying with worthless Confederate bonds. Later, worried that his longtime rival, Cornelius Vanderbilt (Clarence Kolb), is trying to take control of his railroad, Drew seeks help from Fisk, only to have him turn the situation to his own advantage. Fisk and Boyd eventually become powers to be reckoned with on Wall Street.
Meet the Missus (1937)
, 1h5Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley, George Irving, Willie Best, Virginia Sale
Rating59%
The Road to Glory (1936)
, 1h43Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Children's films
Actors Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang, Gregory Ratoff, Victor Kilian
Rating68%
Première Guerre mondiale, 1916, sur le Front en France : Le capitaine Laroche commande une Compagnie du 39e régiment d'infanterie. Malade et diminué, il dirige pourtant avec poigne et rappelle aux soldats les hauts faits d'armes de ce régiment. L'un de ses officiers, le lieutenant Denet, fait la connaissance d'une jeune femme, Monique, et s'en éprend, ignorant qu'elle est l'amie de son supérieur. Une fois de plus, le régiment monte en première ligne...
Annie Oakley (1935)
, 1h30Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton, Andy Clyde
Rating65%
In late 1800s Ohio, a young woman from the backwoods, Annie Oakley (Stanwyck) delivers six dozen quail she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker (Foster), the "greatest shot in the whole world". Walker is particular about what he eats–the hotel owner (James MacIvor, played by Andy Clyde) bought Oakley's quail because she shoots the quail cleanly through the head, leaving no buckshot elsewhere.
His Family Tree (1935)
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Barton, Addison Randall, Maureen Delany, Marjorie Gateson, Herman Bing, Charles Coleman
Rating54%
Come On, Marines! (1934)
, 1h4Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley, Fuzzy Knight, Monte Blue
Roles Writer
Rating56%
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Philippine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. When they arrive, they get a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18- to 25-year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
Rackety Rax (1932)
, 1h10Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen, Nell O'Day, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Stanley Fields, Marjorie Beebe
Roles Story
Rating53%