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
4.8Captain 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
5.9A bounty hunter tries to prove his beautiful quarry innocent of murder.
The Hired Gun
1957
6.3Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Apache Ambush
1955
6.6Hodiak, 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
6.0Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
Caged Fury
1948
5.3Three 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
Behind the camera
4.8Captain 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
5.9A bounty hunter tries to prove his beautiful quarry innocent of murder.
The Hired Gun
1957
6.3Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Apache Ambush
1955
6.6Hodiak, 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
6.0Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
Caged Fury
1948
5.3Three 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
4.3Patricia 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
6.3Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Northwest Rangers
1942
5.7Attorney 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
6.2An 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
5.7A 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
6.1Brady 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
5.7A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
A Yank on the Burma Road
1942
9.0A 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
7.0A 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
7.5A 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
7.0Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
The Magnificent Stranger
1966
3.8War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.
The Nebraskan
1953
5.5Ernie 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
4.6Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Midnight Manhunt
1945
10.0Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
Queen of Burlesque
1946
7.3A 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
6.7A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
Massacre Canyon
1954
7.4A 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
6.0A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
Screaming Eagles
1956
6.0Police 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
