Tag: Lloyd Bacon

Frogmen Script

Script by:John Tucker Battle (Screenplay), Oscar Millard (Story)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Year:1951
IMDb:tt0043565

Plot:The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
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Brother Orchid Script

Script by:Richard Connell (Story), Earl Baldwin (Writer), Jerry Wald (Writer), Richard Macaulay (Writer)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Year:1940
IMDb:tt0032285

Plot:When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Footlight Parade Script

Script by:Manuel Seff (Screenplay), James Seymour (Screenplay)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Year:1933
IMDb:tt0024028

Plot:James Cagney stars as a fledgling producer who finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences. Co-starring Joan Blondell and Dick Powell with spectacular Busby Berkeley dance sequences. Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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42nd Street Script

Script by:Bradford Ropes (Novel), Rian James (Screenplay), James Seymour (Screenplay), Whitney Bolton (Screenplay)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Year:1933
IMDb:tt0024034

Plot:A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Action in the North Atlantic Script

Script by:John Howard Lawson (Screenplay), Guy Gilpatric (Story)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin
Year:1943
IMDb:tt0035608

Plot:Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk.
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Home Sweet Homicide Script

Script by:F. Hugh Herbert (Screenplay), Craig Rice (Novel)
Directed by:Lloyd Bacon
Year:1946
IMDb:tt0038613

Plot:Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
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