Writing

David Lang

Born — Died

1913-11-30 — 2007-05-11

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

26 titles

screenwriter for Hellcats of the Navy and other films and TV

Known for

Behind the camera

Hellcats of the Navy poster
4.8

Captain Casey Abbott commands an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. When a perilous mission to retrieve a new Japanese mine for study goes awry, he's forced to abandon a likable combat diver. Abbott's orders to leave a man behind appear to be justified, but his second-in-command believes he had ulterior motives:

Hellcats of the Navy

1957

The Hired Gun poster
5.9

A bounty hunter tries to prove his beautiful quarry innocent of murder.

The Hired Gun

1957

Apache Ambush poster
6.3

Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.

Apache Ambush

1955

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap poster
6.6

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

1953

Caged Fury poster
6.0

Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.

Caged Fury

1948

Secret of Treasure Mountain poster
5.3

Three bank robbers escape into the western wilderness, where they hear of a fortune in gold supposedly hidden in Treasure Mountain. Is the treasure real, and will it be discovered before greed destroys them all?

Secret of Treasure Mountain

1956

The Buckskin Lady poster
4.3

Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.

The Buckskin Lady

1957

Northwest Rangers poster
6.3

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

Northwest Rangers

1942

Flaxy Martin poster
5.7

Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.

Flaxy Martin

1949

Fury at Gunsight Pass poster
6.2

An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.

Fury at Gunsight Pass

1956

People Are Funny poster
5.7

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

People Are Funny

1946

Wyoming Renegades poster
6.1

Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.

Wyoming Renegades

1954

A Yank on the Burma Road poster
5.7

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

A Yank on the Burma Road

1942

Doux amer poster
9.0

A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses to recognize the baby. Very invested in her career, Anne, an architect, decides to raise her child alone.

Doux amer

1987

Chain of Circumstance poster
7.0

A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.

Chain of Circumstance

1951

The Phantom Stagecoach poster
7.5

A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.

The Phantom Stagecoach

1957

The Magnificent Stranger poster
7.0

Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.

The Magnificent Stranger

1966

The Nebraskan poster
3.8

War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.

The Nebraskan

1953

Web of Danger poster
5.5

Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.

Web of Danger

1947

Midnight Manhunt poster
4.6

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Midnight Manhunt

1945

Queen of Burlesque poster
10.0

Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.

Queen of Burlesque

1946

The Outlaw Stallion poster
7.3

A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy Gray, Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Dorothy Patrick, Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette and Morris Ankrum.

The Outlaw Stallion

1954

Massacre Canyon poster
6.7

A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.

Massacre Canyon

1954

The Field Mouse poster
7.4

A lazy young field mouse and his feisty grandfather fight for survival when advancing farm machinery destroys their home and sends their family scattering.

The Field Mouse

1941

Screaming Eagles poster
6.0

A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.

Screaming Eagles

1956

Traffic in Crime poster
6.0

Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.

Traffic in Crime

1946