Writing

Karl Kamb

Born — Died

1903-06-15 — 1988-02-01

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Pitfall poster
6.9

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

Pitfall

1948

The Kid from Texas poster
5.5

Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated

The Kid from Texas

1950

The Captive City poster
6.1

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

The Captive City

1952

Tarzan and the She-Devil poster
5.2

The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.

Tarzan and the She-Devil

1953

Whispering Smith poster
6.7

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

Whispering Smith

1948

Somewhere I'll Find You poster
5.7

Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942

Main Street After Dark poster
4.5

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.

Main Street After Dark

1945

Starlift poster
6.6

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

Starlift

1951

Help Wanted poster
7.0

A temporary laborer helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket.

Help Wanted

1939

Main Street Today poster
6.3

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

Main Street Today

1944

Main Street on the March! poster
6.1

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.

Main Street on the March!

1941

Pardon My Past poster
6.7

Eddie York is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Pardon My Past

1945

The Wrong Way Out poster
6.4

Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.

The Wrong Way Out

1938

Carnegie Hall poster
5.8

A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning lady at Carnegie Hall. She becomes attached to the place as the people she meets there gradually shape her life. The film also includes a variety of performances from some of the foremost musical artists of the times: conductors Bruno Walter & Leopold Stokowski, solists Arthur Rubinstein & Jascha Haifetz, singers Lily Pons & Jan Peerce and bandleader Vaughn Monroe among many others.

Carnegie Hall

1947

Plan for Destruction poster
6.6

Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organization for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Plan for Destruction

1943

The Greatest Gift poster
6.5

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitude. He eventually finds a way to.

The Greatest Gift

1942

Drunk Driving poster
5.8

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.

Drunk Driving

1939