Writing

David Silverstein

Born

1896-01-13 (130)

Place of birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

King Kelly of the U.S.A. poster
5.2

A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

1934

Unknown Blonde poster
3.2

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.

Unknown Blonde

1934

Woman Wanted poster
6.8

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.

Woman Wanted

1935

Almost a Gentleman poster
8.0

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Almost a Gentleman

1939

Flight from Glory poster
6.2

Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.

Flight from Glory

1937

15 Maiden Lane poster
8.0

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

15 Maiden Lane

1936

Sabotage Squad poster
7.5

A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.

Sabotage Squad

1942

Naval Academy poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Naval Academy

1941

The Kid from Kansas poster
8.0

Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.

The Kid from Kansas

1941

The Scarlet Letter poster
5.1

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

The Scarlet Letter

1934

You Can't Beat Love poster
6.7

The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will take on any bet or act on a whim. This becomes very apparent when he disrupts a food giveaway hosted by the mayor’s daughter and as a result of this, he announces he’s running for mayor–though he seems very much apolitical and has no interest in the job. Later, when he once again meets up with the mayor’s daughter (Joan Fontaine) they supposedly fall in love–although there seemed to be little chemistry between them and it made very little sense for Fontaine to suddenly love a guy she so quickly hated at the beginning of the film. Plus, she really had plenty of reason to dislike the guy.

You Can't Beat Love

1937

Manhattan Love Song poster
5.7

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.

Manhattan Love Song

1934

Saturday's Heroes poster
8.0

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

Saturday's Heroes

1937

Streamline Express poster
6.0

A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

Streamline Express

1935

Mystery Ship poster
8.0

FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.

Mystery Ship

1941