John Litel
24 titles
Filmography
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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.

Nancy Drew... Reporter
(1939)Nancy Drew, reporter for the school newspaper, clears a girl of murder charges.

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.

You Can't Get Away with Murder
(1939)A hardened criminal takes on a young protégé. Their crimes escalate until a pawn shop robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is sentenced to death, setting off a battle of conscience for the apprentice.

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.

Pitfall
(1948)The life of a married insurance adjuster and family man spirals out of control when he falls for a seductress while her boyfriend is serving time.

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.

San Antonio
(1945)Rancher Clay Hardin hunts a cattle thief in San Antonio, but love complicates things when both men fall for the same beautiful chanteuse.

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 Life of Emile Zola
(1937)The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.