Writing

Emmet Lavery

Born — Died

1902-11-08 — 1986-01-01

Place of birth

Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell poster
6.8

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955

Forever and a Day poster
7.5

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Forever and a Day

1943

The Magnificent Yankee poster
5.9

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Magnificent Yankee

1950

Behind the Rising Sun poster
6.1

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Behind the Rising Sun

1943

The First Legion poster
7.4

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

The First Legion

1951

Hitler's Children poster
6.1

This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American woman declared legally German by the Nazi government.

Hitler's Children

1943

Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot poster
7.0

Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot tells the story of Virginia's role in American Independence (up to the point of voting to propose independence at the Second Continental Congress), from the point of view of John Fry (played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses.

Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot

1957

Guilty of Treason poster
6.3

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.

Guilty of Treason

1950

Bright Road poster
6.5

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Bright Road

1953

Bright Road poster
6.5

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Bright Road

1953

Army Surgeon poster
6.0

Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.

Army Surgeon

1942