Аватар персоны William C. Thomas

William C. Thomas

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11-08-1903

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Leo

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Total Films

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Los Angeles, California, USA

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producer

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High Seas Hijack

High Seas Hijack

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
10.0

Year:

1977

Bailout at 43,000

Bailout at 43,000

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
4.6

Year:

1957

The Big Caper

The Big Caper

A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
6.2

Year:

1957

Nightmare

Nightmare

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
5.8

Year:

1956

Lucy Gallant

Lucy Gallant

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
7.0

Year:

1955

The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
6.2

Year:

1955

Hell's Island

Hell's Island

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
5.4

Year:

1955

Run for Cover

Run for Cover

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
6.7

Year:

1955

Jivaro

Jivaro

At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
5.2

Year:

1954

Those Redheads from Seattle

Those Redheads from Seattle

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
5.3

Year:

1953

The Vanquished

The Vanquished

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
4.6

Year:

1953

Sangaree

Sangaree

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
6.4

Year:

1953

The Blazing Forest

The Blazing Forest

Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.
6.0

Year:

1952

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.
4.5

Year:

1952

Crosswinds

Crosswinds

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
5.9

Year:

1951

Passage West

Passage West

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
6.2

Year:

1951

The Last Outpost

The Last Outpost

The cavalry defend a small town from indians.
5.5

Year:

1951

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...
5.4

Year:

1950

The Lawless

The Lawless

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
5.8

Year:

1950

Captain China

Captain China

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
5.0

Year:

1950

Special Agent

Special Agent

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.
0.0

Year:

1949

Manhandled

Manhandled

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
5.1

Year:

1949

El Paso

El Paso

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
5.7

Year:

1949

Dynamite

Dynamite

Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their co-workers.
4.0

Year:

1949

Disaster

Disaster

A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
5.0

Year:

1948

Big Town Scandal

Big Town Scandal

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
5.0

Year:

1948

Mr. Reckless

Mr. Reckless

An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
4.5

Year:

1948

Albuquerque

Albuquerque

Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
6.8

Year:

1948

Jungle Flight

Jungle Flight

Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to Texas and buy a commercial line.
5.9

Year:

1947

Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
5.4

Year:

1947

Swamp Fire

Swamp Fire

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident. She owns a large piece of the swamp and has outlawed hunting on her property. His rival Mike (Crabbe) is a trapper who harbors deep resentment for Johnny and his new wealthy friends. When he feels Johnny is responsible for the hunting ban, he resorts to destructive acts of vengeance.
5.4

Year:

1946

Big Town

Big Town

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
4.8

Year:

1946

They Made Me a Killer

They Made Me a Killer

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
5.6

Year:

1946

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
4.5

Year:

1945

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
4.5

Year:

1945

High Powered

High Powered

Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
0.0

Year:

1945

Double Exposure

Double Exposure

In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
5.5

Year:

1944

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
5.2

Year:

1944

Gambler's Choice

Gambler's Choice

The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
6.0

Year:

1944

Tornado

Tornado

The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
5.5

Year:

1943

Aerial Gunner

Aerial Gunner

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
4.4

Year:

1943

The Price of Victory

The Price of Victory

U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II.
0.0

Year:

1942

We Refuse to Die

We Refuse to Die

1942 Oscar nominated documentary
0.0

Year:

1942

A Letter From Bataan

A Letter From Bataan

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
4.5

Year:

1942

Wildcat

Wildcat

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
6.0

Year:

1942

No Hands on the Clock

No Hands on the Clock

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
4.9

Year:

1941

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter

Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
5.0

Year:

1940

$1,000 a Touchdown

$1,000 a Touchdown

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
2.0

Year:

1939

Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
5.0

Year:

1939

Sudden Money

Sudden Money

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
5.0

Year:

1939

Illegal Traffic

Illegal Traffic

G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
6.5

Year:

1938