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Horace McCoy

Writer
Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.

14-04-1897

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Pegram, Tennessee, USA

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No Pockets in a Shroud

No Pockets in a Shroud

In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear.
5.4

Year:

1974

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
7.6

Year:

1969

Texas Lady

Texas Lady

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
5.4

Year:

1955

Texas Lady

Texas Lady

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
5.4

Year:

1955

The Road to Denver

The Road to Denver

The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
6.0

Year:

1955

Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…
6.1

Year:

1955

Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
5.8

Year:

1954

Dangerous Mission

Dangerous Mission

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
5.8

Year:

1954

Daughters of Destiny

Daughters of Destiny

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
4.0

Year:

1954

Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
5.7

Year:

1953

Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
5.7

Year:

1953

El Alaméin

El Alaméin

A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.
0.0

Year:

1953

Montana Belle

Montana Belle

Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Discord among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicates things, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons and horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer.
5.9

Year:

1952

The Lusty Men

The Lusty Men

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
6.6

Year:

1952

The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
6.5

Year:

1952

The Turning Point

The Turning Point

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
6.3

Year:

1952

Bronco Buster

Bronco Buster

A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.
5.0

Year:

1952

The Fireball

The Fireball

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
5.8

Year:

1950

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
6.8

Year:

1950

The Fabulous Texan

The Fabulous Texan

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
4.0

Year:

1947

There's Something About a Soldier

There's Something About a Soldier

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
4.8

Year:

1943

Appointment in Berlin

Appointment in Berlin

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
6.4

Year:

1943

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
5.2

Year:

1943

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
7.2

Year:

1942

Valley of the Sun

Valley of the Sun

An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
5.8

Year:

1942

Texas

Texas

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
6.5

Year:

1941

Wild Geese Calling

Wild Geese Calling

In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
5.8

Year:

1941

Western Union

Western Union

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
6.0

Year:

1941

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
5.5

Year:

1940

Queen of the Mob

Queen of the Mob

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
4.5

Year:

1940

Women Without Names

Women Without Names

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
4.8

Year:

1940

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
0.0

Year:

1940

Television Spy

Television Spy

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
5.0

Year:

1939

Island of Lost Men

Island of Lost Men

A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
5.7

Year:

1939

Undercover Doctor

Undercover Doctor

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
5.5

Year:

1939

Persons in Hiding

Persons in Hiding

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
3.5

Year:

1939

Hunted Men

Hunted Men

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
6.0

Year:

1938

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
6.5

Year:

1938

Postal Inspector

Postal Inspector

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
6.2

Year:

1936

Parole!

Parole!

Louis Friedlander-directed film
6.0

Year:

1936

Fatal Lady

Fatal Lady

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
0.0

Year:

1936

Speed Wings

Speed Wings

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
0.0

Year:

1934

Speed Wings

Speed Wings

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
0.0

Year:

1934

Fury of the Jungle

Fury of the Jungle

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
0.0

Year:

1933

Soldiers of the Storm

Soldiers of the Storm

Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
0.0

Year:

1933