Lester Cole

Born Free (1966)

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa ...

Onkelchens Traum (1965)

Operation Eichmann (1961)

Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II. ...

Květy a kořeny (1959)

Chain Lightning (1950)

Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company. ...

High Wall (1947)

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and re ...

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest. ...

Fiesta (1947)

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring. ...

Strange Conquest (1946)

Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor. ...

Men in Her Diary (1945)

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictio ...

Blood on the Sun (1945)

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time. ...

Objective, Burma! (1945)

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they ...

None Shall Escape (1944)

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial. ...

Hostages (1943)

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance. ...

Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an anci ...

Pacific Blackout (1941)

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered ...

Among the Living (1941)

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother. ...

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out. ...

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for hi ...

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. ...

The Big Guy (1939)

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty. ...

I Stole a Million (1939)

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ...

Winter Carnival (1939)

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival. ...

Pirates of the Skies (1939)

Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and para ...

Secrets of a Nurse (1938)

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair ...

Sinners in Paradise (1938)

The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and retur ...

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever. ...

Midnight Intruder (1938)

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect. ...

The Jury's Secret (1938)

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial. ...

Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937)

"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney. ...

Behind the Mike (1937)

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor. ...

Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)

Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set t ...

The President's Mystery (1936)

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice ...

Follow Your Heart (1936)

An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions. ...

Too Tough to Kill (1935)

A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents. ...

Under Pressure (1935)

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaran ...

Pursued (1934)

A man arrives in British North Borneo in order to take over his deceased uncle's plantation and falls in love with a cabaret singer, who nurses him back to health after an attack, and is the object of another plantation's owner's desire. ...

Wild Gold (1934)

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. ...

Sleepers East (1934)

No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor We ...

Walls of Gold (1933)

A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister. ...

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)

When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch. ...

If I Had a Million (1932)

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...

The Majestic (2001)

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son. ...

The Hollywood Ten (1950)

A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that a ...