Production

Jo Swerling Jr.

Born

1931-06-18 (95)

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Whole World Is Watching poster
9.0

In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.

The Whole World Is Watching

1969

Toma poster
7.7

This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.

Toma

1973

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd poster
5.0

A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

1974

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? poster
9.0

An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

1971

The Great Pretender poster
3.3

A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.

The Great Pretender

1991

Do You Take This Stranger? poster
6.0

A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.

Do You Take This Stranger?

1971

Drive Hard, Drive Fast poster
9.0

A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him.

Drive Hard, Drive Fast

1972

This Is the West That Was poster
9.0

A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.

This Is the West That Was

1974

The Lonely Profession poster
7.0

Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.

The Lonely Profession

1969

The Jordan Chance poster
7.0

Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.

The Jordan Chance

1978