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Ben Markson

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06-08-1897

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Creston, Iowa, USA

Place of Birth

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Creative career

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producer

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director

40 Works

writer

38 Works

other

2 Works

Edge of Eternity

Edge of Eternity

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
6.5

Year:

1959

Mr. District Attorney

Mr. District Attorney

An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
6.5

Year:

1947

A Close Call for Boston Blackie

A Close Call for Boston Blackie

Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
4.9

Year:

1946

Prison Ship

Prison Ship

Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.
6.0

Year:

1945

The Falcon in San Francisco

The Falcon in San Francisco

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.
6.1

Year:

1945

The Beautiful Cheat

The Beautiful Cheat

The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
0.0

Year:

1945

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
5.5

Year:

1945

Thieves Fall Out

Thieves Fall Out

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
5.5

Year:

1941

The Great Mr. Nobody

The Great Mr. Nobody

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
5.3

Year:

1941

I Was a Convict

I Was a Convict

In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
5.0

Year:

1939

Pride of the Navy

Pride of the Navy

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
0.0

Year:

1939

Danger – Love at Work

Danger – Love at Work

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
7.3

Year:

1937

Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
0.0

Year:

1937

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
5.2

Year:

1937

Woman-Wise

Woman-Wise

A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
0.0

Year:

1937

Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool

A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
0.0

Year:

1936

Brides Are Like That

Brides Are Like That

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
4.8

Year:

1936

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
6.0

Year:

1935

Bright Lights

Bright Lights

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
4.5

Year:

1935

Going Highbrow

Going Highbrow

A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
6.0

Year:

1935

The White Cockatoo

The White Cockatoo

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
5.3

Year:

1935

Babbitt

Babbitt

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
6.0

Year:

1934

Big Hearted Herbert

Big Hearted Herbert

After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
3.5

Year:

1934

The Case of the Howling Dog

The Case of the Howling Dog

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
6.5

Year:

1934

Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
5.8

Year:

1934

Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
5.8

Year:

1934

Upperworld

Upperworld

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
6.3

Year:

1934

Lady Killer

Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
6.7

Year:

1933

Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
5.0

Year:

1933

The Silk Express

The Silk Express

As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
4.7

Year:

1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixie and Polly's schemes to bilk his money and keep the show going.
7.2

Year:

1933

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
6.9

Year:

1933

Girl Missing

Girl Missing

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
5.1

Year:

1933

Lucky Devils

Lucky Devils

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
6.3

Year:

1933

The Half-Naked Truth

The Half-Naked Truth

A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (Morgan).
5.2

Year:

1932

Rackety Rax

Rackety Rax

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
5.0

Year:

1932

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood?

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
6.7

Year:

1932

Is My Face Red?

Is My Face Red?

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
5.0

Year:

1932

Is My Face Red?

Is My Face Red?

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
5.0

Year:

1932

The River Pirate

The River Pirate

This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
0.0

Year:

1928