Writing

Kenneth Gamet

Born — Died

1903-10-23 — 1971-10-13

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

A Lawless Street poster
5.6

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

A Lawless Street

1955

Wake of the Red Witch poster
5.9

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Wake of the Red Witch

1948

The Stranger Wore a Gun poster
5.5

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953

Flying Tigers poster
6.3

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

Flying Tigers

1942

Ten Wanted Men poster
5.9

When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.

Ten Wanted Men

1955

Last of the Comanches poster
6.4

It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. Pinned down by Black Cloud they send an Indian boy who was Black Cloud's prisoner on to the fort while they try to bargain with Black Cloud whom they learn is without water.

Last of the Comanches

1953

Behind the camera

A Lawless Street poster
5.6

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

A Lawless Street

1955

Wake of the Red Witch poster
5.9

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Wake of the Red Witch

1948

The Stranger Wore a Gun poster
5.5

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953

Flying Tigers poster
6.3

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

Flying Tigers

1942

Ten Wanted Men poster
5.9

When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.

Ten Wanted Men

1955

Last of the Comanches poster
6.4

It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. Pinned down by Black Cloud they send an Indian boy who was Black Cloud's prisoner on to the fort while they try to bargain with Black Cloud whom they learn is without water.

Last of the Comanches

1953

The Last Posse poster
6.3

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

The Last Posse

1953

Man in the Saddle poster
6.6

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

Man in the Saddle

1951

Canadian Pacific poster
5.2

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Canadian Pacific

1949

Granny Get Your Gun poster
5.7

An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.

Granny Get Your Gun

1940

Highway West poster
6.6

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Highway West

1941

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase poster
6.8

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

1939

Blonde Ice poster
5.7

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

Blonde Ice

1948

Pittsburgh poster
6.4

Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.

Pittsburgh

1942

The Maverick Queen poster
5.8

Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which, like the owner bears the name of "The Maverick Queen."---a title picked up by Kit in her earlier days in Wyoming when she took every unbranded steer and put her own brand on it. Love and trouble enter her life in the person of a Pinkerton detective posing as Jeff Younger, nephew of the infamous Younger brothers. He is dedicated to catching Butch Cassidy and the members of The Wild Bunch

The Maverick Queen

1956

Domino Kid poster
5.8

A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.

Domino Kid

1957

Hell's Outpost poster
5.5

A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.

Hell's Outpost

1954

The Great Mr. Nobody poster
6.0

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

The Great Mr. Nobody

1941

Smart Blonde poster
6.4

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Smart Blonde

1937

Adventures in Silverado poster
7.0

Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.

Adventures in Silverado

1948

Strange Alibi poster
7.2

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.

Strange Alibi

1941

You Can't Get Away with Murder poster
5.8

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939

Coroner Creek poster
6.2

A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.

Coroner Creek

1948

Broadway Musketeers poster
4.4

Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.

Broadway Musketeers

1938

Nancy Drew… Detective poster
6.5

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.

Nancy Drew… Detective

1938

The Doolins of Oklahoma poster
6.8

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949

Devil's Island poster
5.7

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Devil's Island

1939

Tear Gas Squad poster
5.2

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Tear Gas Squad

1940

Betrayal from the East poster
6.4

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

Betrayal from the East

1945

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter poster
6.2

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

1939

Fighting Coast Guard poster
6.7

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Fighting Coast Guard

1951

Everybody's Hobby poster
6.2

A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

Everybody's Hobby

1939

Santa Fe poster
6.8

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Santa Fe

1951

Bomber's Moon poster
6.5

An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.

Bomber's Moon

1943

Flowing Gold poster
6.7

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.

Flowing Gold

1940

South of Pago Pago poster
5.5

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.

South of Pago Pago

1940

Nancy Drew... Reporter poster
6.0

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939

The Lawless Eighties poster
7.0

After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help him put a stop to Bandas's plans to start an Indian war and grab their land for himself. Meanwhile, Prescott takes a shine to the daughter of a local rancher.

The Lawless Eighties

1957

Fly Away Baby poster
6.3

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

Fly Away Baby

1937

The Smiling Ghost poster
6.7

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

The Smiling Ghost

1941