Writing

H.W. Hanemann

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Flying Down to Rio poster
6.3

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Flying Down to Rio

1933

Rafter Romance poster
6.8

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Rafter Romance

1933

Riffraff poster
5.4

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.

Riffraff

1936

Ace of Aces poster
5.9

A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the fight. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.

Ace of Aces

1933

The Meanest Gal in Town poster
7.2

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

The Meanest Gal in Town

1934

The House of a Thousand Candles poster
10.0

The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.

The House of a Thousand Candles

1936

The Silver Streak poster
6.9

A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.

The Silver Streak

1934

Sweepings poster
5.8

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.

Sweepings

1933

Cadet Girl poster
8.0

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

Cadet Girl

1941

Spring Tonic poster
6.5

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Spring Tonic

1935

Where Sinners Meet poster
4.4

A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.

Where Sinners Meet

1934

Tahiti Honey poster
5.4

The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.

Tahiti Honey

1943

The Great Jasper poster
8.0

Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.

The Great Jasper

1933