Writing

Arthur Hoerl

Born — Died

1891-12-17 — 1968-02-06

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West poster
7.2

Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

1947

Young Dillinger poster
7.3

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.

Young Dillinger

1965

The Mystery of the 13th Guest poster
5.7

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943

There's a Girl in My Heart poster
7.0

A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.

There's a Girl in My Heart

1949

The Lost Tribe poster
5.8

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.

The Lost Tribe

1949

The Boss of Big Town poster
6.2

Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.

The Boss of Big Town

1942

Behind the camera

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West poster
7.2

Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

1947

Young Dillinger poster
7.3

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.

Young Dillinger

1965

The Mystery of the 13th Guest poster
5.7

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

1943

There's a Girl in My Heart poster
7.0

A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.

There's a Girl in My Heart

1949

The Lost Tribe poster
5.8

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.

The Lost Tribe

1949

The Boss of Big Town poster
6.2

Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.

The Boss of Big Town

1942

Superman poster
6.2

Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.

Superman

1948

Congo Bill poster
3.0

Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.

Congo Bill

1948

King of the Congo poster
10.0

An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.

King of the Congo

1952

Tell Your Children poster
4.4

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Tell Your Children

1938

They Never Come Back poster
6.3

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

They Never Come Back

1932

Gunfighters of the Northwest poster
7.0

Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for creating trouble.

Gunfighters of the Northwest

1954

No artwork available
10.0

Gerald Morely's father is ruined in a stock fraud and commits suicide. When shortly afterwards the man who perpetrated it is murdered, the evidence is framed so that Gerald appears guilty.

Handcuffed

1929

The Lost Planet poster
4.7

Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.

The Lost Planet

1953

Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains poster
9.0

Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno

Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

1948

African Manhunt poster
7.0

Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, stopping every so often to watch wild animals attack one another.

African Manhunt

1955

Some Mother's Boy poster
10.0

When two young tearaways are fleeing from the scene of a crime one is shot and the other escapes. He makes his way to the home of his companion's mother, who recognizes him as the son she has been separated from for fifteen years.

Some Mother's Boy

1929

Before Morning poster
4.6

A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.

Before Morning

1933

Cross-Examination poster
5.1

Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.

Cross-Examination

1932

No artwork available
7.0

A silent film from 1928.

Inspiration

1928

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd poster
5.0

Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd

1953

Sarong Girl poster
7.0

A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.

Sarong Girl

1943

His Nibs poster
7.0

Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.

His Nibs

1921

Law of the Texan poster
8.0

Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.

Law of the Texan

1938

Texas to Bataan poster
5.7

As war looms in the Pacific, even cowboys are called on to fight the enemy. Horses are desperately needed by U.S forces stationed in the Philippines, and the Range Busters - Crash Corrigan, Alibi Terhune, and their newest partner, Davy Sharpe - are hired to accompany a herd to the islands. But first they must battle Axis spies right in Texas, as they foil a plot to steal the very horses destined for shipment.

Texas to Bataan

1942

Gypsy of the North poster
9.0

Alice Culhane is a brassy Klondike dance-hall girl with a heart of gold is pursued by such ardent flirting swains as Steve Farrell and Chappie Evans. Alice plays her cards well.

Gypsy of the North

1928

No artwork available
7.0

Jerry Judd, a young cop, is on the trail of a gang of stick-up men who rob jewelry stores. He falls in love with Patricia Barry, who it turns out is the sister of the gang's leader, Blackie. She loves Jerry, too, but is torn between her love for him and her loyalty to her brother, and is put to the test when Jerry gets closer to discovering where the gang's hideout is.

You Can’t Beat the Law

1928

The Drums of Jeopardy poster
10.0

The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to project a sinister influence on the possessor. The czar of Russia gives the statuettes to a grand duke, who, in turn, gives them to his secretary, John Hawksley. Hawksley sends them to America in a friend's possession and follows after.

The Drums of Jeopardy

1923

The Lawless Woman poster
8.0

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at all costs to cover the case to obtain exclusivity and impress his hierarchy. He falls in love with the young woman, but Ed Baker's former friends, determined to take revenge, have not said their last word ...

The Lawless Woman

1931

Jungle Menace poster
7.0

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

Jungle Menace

1937

A Strange Adventure poster
6.5

A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.

A Strange Adventure

1932

Cipher Bureau poster
5.3

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Cipher Bureau

1938

The Heart of Broadway poster
10.0

Small town girl goes to city to become actress after meeting hoofer. They get work in a cabaret, but show backer makes life unpleasant for girl. When he is shot by an enemy, hoofer takes blame believing girl committed the murder.

The Heart of Broadway

1928

Sunset Murder Case poster
3.7

Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.

Sunset Murder Case

1938

Jack Armstrong poster
9.0

15 episode serial where Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.

Jack Armstrong

1947

Counsel for the Defense poster
9.0

Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames David for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, David's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. However, the circumstantial evidence is too great and David is convicted. Harrison bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. David is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.

Counsel for the Defense

1925

Taffy and the Jungle Hunter poster
10.0

A hunter, who captures wild animals for zoos, takes his young son and the boy's widowed governess on his latest expedition. The boy and his pet chimp, in company with a baby elephant his father has captured, run away from camp and experience many thrilling adventures.

Taffy and the Jungle Hunter

1965

Panama Patrol poster
7.5

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Panama Patrol

1939

When Dreams Come True poster
9.0

Ben Shelby, a blacksmith, is in love with Caroline Swayne but her wealthy father rejects the marriage. When he is found murdered shortly afterwards, suspicion falls on Shelby.

When Dreams Come True

1929

Hell-Bent for Frisco poster
9.0

After his girlfriend's brother is murdered, a San Francisco newspapermen goes on the track of his killers.

Hell-Bent for Frisco

1931