Writing

Martin Mooney

Born — Died

1896-04-17 — 1967-01-21

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Special Agent poster
6.1

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Special Agent

1935

Missing Girls poster
6.2

A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.

Missing Girls

1936

The Panther's Claw poster
6.5

The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.

The Panther's Claw

1942

San Quentin poster
6.2

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

San Quentin

1946

San Quentin poster
6.2

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

San Quentin

1946

Crime, Inc. poster
4.8

A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.

Crime, Inc.

1945

Daughter of the West poster
8.0

A convent-raised woman learns of her American Indian heritage through romance with an educated Navajo (Philip Reed) during the 1880s.

Daughter of the West

1949

Mr. Celebrity poster
7.0

A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.

Mr. Celebrity

1941

Mr. Celebrity poster
7.0

A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.

Mr. Celebrity

1941

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

You Can't Buy Luck poster
4.7

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

You Can't Buy Luck

1937

The Monster Maker poster
5.2

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

The Monster Maker

1944

Danger! Women at Work poster
6.5

Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.

Danger! Women at Work

1943

The Woman from Tangier poster
7.5

This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. $50,000, in gold, is stolen from the ship's safe and the captain tells the police that the purser was the thief and that he had to kill him in self defense, but the purser must have hidden the money before he got dead. The purser isn't in any position to make a disclaimer. Everybody buys that with the exception of an insurance detective, Shapley, who, along with the audience, suspects the captain of being the thief shows up to investigate further. Written By Les Adams

The Woman from Tangier

1948

Gangs Inc. poster
5.6

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

Gangs Inc.

1941

Emergency Landing poster
6.3

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.

Emergency Landing

1941

Criminal Court poster
5.4

A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.

Criminal Court

1946

Federal Fugitives poster
6.3

A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.

Federal Fugitives

1941

Waterfront poster
4.9

A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.

Waterfront

1944

Silent Witness poster
7.5

District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.

Silent Witness

1943

Inside Information poster
7.5

A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.

Inside Information

1939

Blonde Comet poster
5.3

A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.

Blonde Comet

1941

Broadway Big Shot poster
9.0

This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.

Broadway Big Shot

1942

No artwork available
7.0

Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.

Foreign Agent

1942