Tag: Mervyn LeRoy

The Bad Seed Script

Script by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), William March (Novel)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0048977

Plot:Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Script

Script by:Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Ted W. Lawson (Story)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1944
IMDb:tt0037366

Plot:In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Little Caesar Script

Script by:W.R. Burnett (Novel), Francis Edward Faragoh (Screenplay), Francis Edward Faragoh (Dialogue)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1931
IMDb:tt0021079

Plot:A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Quo Vadis Script

Script by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), S. N. Behrman (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), Henryk Sienkiewicz (Novel)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Year:1951
IMDb:tt0043949

Plot:Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.
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Mister Roberts Script

Script by:Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay), Joshua Logan (Screenplay), Thomas Heggen (Theatre Play), Joshua Logan (Theatre Play), Thomas Heggen (Novel)
Directed by:John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048380

Plot:Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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No Time For Sergeants Script

Script by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), Ira Levin (Theatre Play), Mac Hyman (Novel)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1958
IMDb:tt0052005

Plot:Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will? In No Time for Sergeants, Andy Griffith is certifiably funny in the role that clinched his stardom. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force – and lots of folks’ll never be the same.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Script

Script by:Howard J. Green (Screenplay), Sheridan Gibney (Screenplay), Brown Holmes (Screenplay), Robert E. Burns (Story)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1932
IMDb:tt0023042

Plot:A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Wake Me When It’s Over Script

Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0054455

Plot:The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
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The Wizard of Oz Script

Script by:L. Frank Baum (Author), Noel Langley (Screenplay), Florence Ryerson (Screenplay), Edgar Allan Woolf (Screenplay)
Directed by:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0032138

Plot:Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
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