Writing

Charles R. Marion

Born — Died

1914-11-12 — 1980-09-29

Place of birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Spooks Run Wild poster
5.1

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Spooks Run Wild

1941

Apache Territory poster
6.5

Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small band of soldiers at a water hole. They are ambushed and laid siege to by Apache. As their food and water supplies dwindle a storm arrives which enables Cates to put an escape plan into action.

Apache Territory

1958

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

Roar of the Crowd poster
8.0

Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.

Roar of the Crowd

1953

Hot Rhythm poster
5.5

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.

Hot Rhythm

1944

Triple Trouble poster
7.0

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

Triple Trouble

1950

Behind the camera

Spooks Run Wild poster
5.1

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Spooks Run Wild

1941

Apache Territory poster
6.5

Logan Cates sets out to rescue a white woman captured by Apache Indians and prevent a war. On the way he is joined by a few civilians and a small band of soldiers at a water hole. They are ambushed and laid siege to by Apache. As their food and water supplies dwindle a storm arrives which enables Cates to put an escape plan into action.

Apache Territory

1958

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

Roar of the Crowd poster
8.0

Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.

Roar of the Crowd

1953

Hot Rhythm poster
5.5

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.

Hot Rhythm

1944

Triple Trouble poster
7.0

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

Triple Trouble

1950

The Rose Bowl Story poster
4.2

The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.

The Rose Bowl Story

1952

Master Minds poster
6.5

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.

Master Minds

1949

Campus Rhythm poster
5.7

Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.

Campus Rhythm

1943

Here Come the Marines poster
7.3

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.

Here Come the Marines

1952

The Lady and the Lug poster
8.0

In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.

The Lady and the Lug

1941

Rhythm Round-Up poster
8.0

Arriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly belongs to young Jimmy Benson (Curtis), the nephew of the previous owner. The "ghosts," however, turns out to be a trio of confidence men, Zeke Winslow (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams), Noah Jones (Raymond Hatton) and Slim Jensen Victor Potel, who are hoping to buy the place themselves.

Rhythm Round-Up

1945

Ghost Chasers poster
6.8

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Ghost Chasers

1951

Sarong Girl poster
7.0

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

Sarong Girl

1943

Bowery Battalion poster
8.0

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Bowery Battalion

1951

Rodeo poster
7.0

Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts.

Rodeo

1952

White Lightning poster
7.5

The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from gamblers by the star player. When the team is joined by cocky Mike Connors, a boyhood friend of Jack's, they begin to regain their former winning ways.

White Lightning

1953

Idea Girl poster
8.0

Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.

Idea Girl

1946

Lucky Losers poster
6.6

Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.

Lucky Losers

1950

Goin' to Town poster
9.0

General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.

Goin' to Town

1944

Hot News poster
6.5

An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.

Hot News

1953

Melody Parade poster
8.0

The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.

Melody Parade

1943

The Dark Horse poster
7.0

Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.

The Dark Horse

1946

Angels in Disguise poster
6.0

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.

Angels in Disguise

1949

Hold That Line poster
7.0

The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.

Hold That Line

1952

Smart Guy poster
7.0

A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.

Smart Guy

1943

Clipped Wings poster
7.0

Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.

Clipped Wings

1953

Blues Busters poster
6.7

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.

Blues Busters

1950

Blonde Dynamite poster
6.8

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into a male escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.

Blonde Dynamite

1950

Hold That Baby! poster
5.8

While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.

Hold That Baby!

1949

Jet Job poster
6.5

Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. He almost loses his life when the inferior plane he is testing fails to function at a high altitude, a fault that the designer had anticipated but had let get by because of his greed in getting the contract.

Jet Job

1952

Here Comes Kelly poster
3.7

Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server.

Here Comes Kelly

1943

No artwork available
7.0

An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.

Hit the Hay

1945