Tag: Lamar Trotti

There’s No Business Like Show Business Script

Script by:Phoebe Ephron (Screenplay), Henry Ephron (Screenplay), Lamar Trotti (Story)
Directed by:Walter Lang
Year:1954
IMDb:tt0047574

Plot:Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
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Captain From Castile Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Writer), Samuel Shellabarger (Novel)
Directed by:Henry King
Year:1947
IMDb:tt0039243

Plot:Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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The Ox Bow Incident Script

Script by:Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Novel), Lamar Trotti (Screenplay)
Directed by:William A. Wellman
Year:1943
IMDb:tt0036244

Plot:Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Croft eventually join a posse out to get the criminals, who also may be involved in a recent shooting. When the posse closes in on a group that could be the fugitives, they must decide on a course of action, with numerous lives hanging in the balance.
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Drums Along the Mohawk Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), Walter D. Edmonds (Novel)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0031252

Plot:Set in America's Colonial period, John Ford's adventure tale follows Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they try to survive the rugged frontier. After their settlement is repeatedly attacked by Indians, the couple is taken in by a spinster (Edna May Oliver). Lana bears a son, while Gilbert heads off to fight the Indians and the British. He returns, wounded, to find his family once again under attack by the Indians.
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Tales of Manhattan Script

Script by:Henry Blankfort (Writer), Alan Campbell (Writer), Ladislas Fodor (Writer), László Görög (Writer), Ben Hecht (Writer), Samuel Hoffenstein (Writer), Ferenc Molnár (Writer), Donald Ogden Stewart (Writer), Lamar Trotti (Writer), László Vadnay (Writer)
Directed by:Julien Duvivier
Year:1942
IMDb:tt0035415

Plot:Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Young Mr. Lincoln Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Writer)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0032155

Plot:In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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Kentucky Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Screenplay), John Taintor Foote (Screenplay)
Directed by:David Butler
Year:1938
IMDb:tt0030317

Plot:Romeo and Juliet story set amidst horseracing in Kentucky. The family feud of lovers Jack and Sally goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by her Uncle Peter.
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