John Litel
19 titles
Filmography
19 results

Submarine Base
(1943)Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

The Boss of Big Town
(1942)After his assistant is killed, a crusading city official poses as a government stooge to flush out the big boss and shut down his gang of racketeers.

Lighthouse
(1947)Connie's affections for Sam, a lighthouse keeper, are redirected to his colleague Hank due to resentment, leading to a complex love triangle.

Don Winslow of the Navy
(1942)A patriotic Naval officer makes it his mission to smoke out a saboteur who orchestrates the destruction of cargo ships bound for Pearl Harbor.

Murder in the Blue Room
(1944)Chaos ensues when a party is thrown at a haunted mansion, people start to die, and a man who spends a night in the "blue room" disappears.

Northwest Trail
(1945)Un jinete en una misión descubre una operación minera ilegal que contrabandea oro a través de la frontera. Su superior le ordena que regrese.

Sitting Bull
(1954)An officer sympathetic to the wronged Sioux fixes a meeting with Chief Sitting Bull and President Grant, but threats derail the peace talks.

Outpost in Morocco
(1949)An emir's vivacious daughter and a dashing Foreign Legion captain get caught in a web of intrigue and high adventure in post-war French Morocco.

Flight to Mars
(1951)On the Red Planet, American scientists who uncover a dying, underground-dwelling alien race find themselves prisoners of their leery Martian hosts.

The Return of Doctor X
(1939)In a bizarre but fascinating bit of casting, Humphrey Bogart stars as a vampire in his only horror film role. After a murderous doctor is executed, he is revived with human blood--and soon people with that blood type begin to disappear. When an eager reporter stumbles across a popular actress who was thought to be dead, he can't help noticing that her skin is unnaturally pale and that she keeps her face concealed beneath a long black veil. Suspecting that evil is afoot, he investigates the terrifying world of a psychotic doctor (Bogart) and is drawn into a series of unsolved murders.

The Sundowners
(1950)Dos hermanos se enfrentan en una guerra de tierras en Texas, donde la venganza, el robo de ganado y el asesinato se justifican con ira justiciera.

The Groom Wore Spurs
(1951)An attorney hired to keep a dumb Hollywood cowboy star and ladies man out of trouble finds herself quickly seduced into becoming his bride.

Knute Rockne All American
(1940)The immigrant son of a Norwegian carriage builder becomes a star player for Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish and later makes history as head coach.
A Slight Case of Murder
(1938)
Comanche
(1956)Violent Indian attacks, spurred on by the racist hatred of Indians among white officers, compel a brave army scout to see understanding, reconciliation, and peace.

Dodge City
(1939)Because someone’s gotta do it, a Texas cattleman takes on the task of cleaning up the wild and lawless Dodge City while courting one of its women.

The Gun Hawk
(1963)Western icon Rory Calhoun calls the shots as a wounded gunman who’s determined to go out on his own terms in this action-packed adventure costarring Rod Cameron and Ruta Lee.
Flight Angels
(1940)Cleared for takeoff: Flight Angels, an aviation programmer steeped in man-woman attitudes of its time. The story is centered on commercial pilots eager to fly higher (during off-hours they're designing a high-altitude plane) and up-in-the-air attendants eager to land a man (exchanges between the femmes in the Stewardess Lounge are exceptionally catty). Virginia Bruce and Jane Wyman portray two of the title's Angels. Dennis Morgan plays the pilot whose eye problems result in him being grounded by his superintendent (Ralph Bellamy) and sent to the classroom to instruct future flight attendants. He refuses to stay grounded, test-piloting his experimental stratospheric aircraft without authorization. Wayne Morris, inspired by his role in the film, became a real-life pilot and went on to become a decorated WWII flight hero.

Runaway Daughters
(1956)For three teenage girls, their troubled home lives and difficulties in high school all point to a life of crime that has serious consequences.