Writing

Arthur St. Claire

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Submarine Base poster
5.1

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

Submarine Base

1943

King of the Stallions poster
7.3

Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

King of the Stallions

1942

Arson Squad poster
9.0

Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.

Arson Squad

1945

Tiger Fangs poster
7.0

A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.

Tiger Fangs

1943

The Mask of Diijon poster
4.8

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

The Mask of Diijon

1946

Boss of Bullion City poster
6.0

A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.

Boss of Bullion City

1940

Behind the camera

Submarine Base poster
5.1

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

Submarine Base

1943

King of the Stallions poster
7.3

Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

King of the Stallions

1942

Arson Squad poster
9.0

Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.

Arson Squad

1945

Tiger Fangs poster
7.0

A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.

Tiger Fangs

1943

The Mask of Diijon poster
4.8

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

The Mask of Diijon

1946

Boss of Bullion City poster
6.0

A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.

Boss of Bullion City

1940

Gallant Lady poster
6.5

A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.

Gallant Lady

1942

Sweethearts of the U.S.A. poster
5.7

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

1944

The Prairie poster
6.5

The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections

The Prairie

1947

Secrets of a Sorority Girl poster
9.0

In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.

Secrets of a Sorority Girl

1945

The Dawn Express poster
5.1

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

The Dawn Express

1942

Philo Vance's Gamble poster
6.3

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.

Philo Vance's Gamble

1947

Rimfire poster
5.2

An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.

Rimfire

1949

Along the Sundown Trail poster
8.0

Three lawmen hunt down thieves who are robbing a tungsten mine.

Along the Sundown Trail

1942

A Yank in Libya poster
4.7

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.

A Yank in Libya

1942

Man of Courage poster
5.6

A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.

Man of Courage

1943

A Night for Crime poster
4.6

A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

A Night for Crime

1943

Delinquent Daughters poster
5.4

A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.

Delinquent Daughters

1944

No artwork available
6.3

A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that was made just after the A-bomb was dropped upon Hiroshima.

Shadow Of Terror

1945