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Crane Wilbur

Crane Wilbur

Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen. He was born in Athens, New York. He died in Toluca Lake, California.

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Movies Made By Crane Wilbur (69)

House of Women (1962)

An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite. ...

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Mysterious Island (1961)

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 League ...

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The George Raft Story (1961)

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft. ...

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Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest i ...

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The Bat (1959)

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has ...

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Monkey on My Back (1957)

The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross ...

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Battle Stations (1956)

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet. ...

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The Phenix City Story (1955)

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town. ...

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Women's Prison (1955)

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison. ...

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The Mad Magician (1954)

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great ...

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Crime Wave (1953)

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job. ...

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House of Wax (1953)

A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits. ...

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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)

In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand ...

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The Lion and the Horse (1952)

After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared. ...

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot. ...

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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)

A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization. ...

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Outside the Wall (1950)

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, ...

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The Story of Molly X (1949)

Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses ...

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He Walked by Night (1949)

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. ...

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The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and young ...

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Canon City (1948)

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary. ...

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Adventures of Casanova (1948)

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one ...

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The Red Stallion (1947)

Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt. ...

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The Devil On Wheels (1947)

A teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod. ...

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Born to Speed (1947)

The romantic, dangerous and fast-paced world of professional midget auto racing provides the backdrop for this dramatic tale of a young driver who decides to follow in his late father's footsteps and win the big race. ...

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I Am an American (1944)

The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history. ...

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I Won't Play (1944)

In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most im ...

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Proudly We Serve (1944)

Sergeant Tex Gordon is surprised to learn that his new gunnery instructor is a woman. ...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for ...

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A Night of Adventure (1944)

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges. ...

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King of the Lumberjacks (1940)

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife. ...

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The Monroe Doctrine (1939)

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America. ...

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Ride, Cowboy, Ride (1939)

Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs t ...

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The Bill of Rights (1939)

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill ...

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Hell's Kitchen (1939)

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, a ...

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Quiet, Please (1939)

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production. ...

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The Right Way (1939)

A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by the society, and in a vision her husband warns her to protect their son. She explains to him the danger in t ...

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The Man Who Dared (1939)

An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption. ...

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Sons of Liberty (1939)

Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution. ...

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Blackwell's Island (1939)

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...

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Swingtime in the Movies (1938)

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break. ...

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The Declaration of Independence (1938)

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted. ...

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Girls on Probation (1938)

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart. ...

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Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child. ...

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Out Where the Stars Begin (1938)

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born. ...

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Crime School (1938)

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards ...

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Over the Wall (1938)

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence. ...

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The Invisible Menace (1938)

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who ...

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The Patient in Room 18 (1938)

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective s ...

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The Man Without a Country (1937)

This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearin ...

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West of Shanghai (1937)

American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord. ...

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Alcatraz Island (1937)

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. ...

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Romance of Louisiana (1937)

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase. ...

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Dance Charlie Dance (1937)

A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism. ...

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A Day at Santa Anita (1937)

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races. ...

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The Romance Of Robert Burns (1937)

The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her si ...

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Navy Spy (1937)

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas. ...

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We're in the Legion Now (1936)

Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion. ...

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El carnaval del diablo (1936)

Spanish-language version of The Devil on Horseback (1936). ...

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Captain Calamity (1936)

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure. ...

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Yellow Cargo (1936)

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S. ...

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The Devil on Horseback (1936)

This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia. ...

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The People's Enemy (1935)

Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughte ...

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Unwelcome Stranger (1935)

Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to sta ...

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On Probation (1935)

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor. ...

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Tomorrow's Children (1934)

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she ...

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High School Girl (1934)

In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents are strict, but pay little real attention to their kids, therefore the kids turn to their high school biology teacher who is willin ...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance. ...

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Movies Starring Crane Wilbur (6)

Captain Calamity (1936)

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure. ...

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Yellow Cargo (1936)

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S. ...

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Public Opinion (1935)

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage. ...

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Name the Woman (1934)

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine. ...

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Tomorrow's Children (1934)

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she ...

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High School Girl (1934)

In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents are strict, but pay little real attention to their kids, therefore the kids turn to their high school biology teacher who is willin ...

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