Writing

Steve Fisher

Born — Died

1912-08-29 — 1980-03-27

Place of birth

Marine City, Michigan, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Crime novelist and screenwriter Stephen Gould Fisher adapted his novel into the screenplay for I Wake Up Screaming (1941). He also wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Johnny Angel (1945), Dead Reckoning (1947), Lady in the Lake (1947), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Hunted (1948), I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948), Roadblock (1951), The Big Frame (1952), City That Never Sleeps (1953), Terror Street (1953), Hell's Half Acre (1954), The Big Tip Off (1955), Betrayed Women (1955), The Toughest Man Alive (1955), I Mobster (1958), and also wrote for television.

Known for

Dead Reckoning poster
6.9

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.

Dead Reckoning

1946

The Man from the Alamo poster
6.6

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Unable to expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead.

The Man from the Alamo

1953

Lady in the Lake poster
6.1

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Lady in the Lake

1946

Song of the Thin Man poster
6.7

While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in to clear their friends and uncover the real killer. Their investigation leads through a lively world of jazz clubs, radio personalities, high society, and backstage rivalries, where almost everyone has a secret and the next clue may be hidden in the music.

Song of the Thin Man

1947

City That Never Sleeps poster
6.0

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...

City That Never Sleeps

1953

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes poster
5.6

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1948

Behind the camera

Dead Reckoning poster
6.9

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.

Dead Reckoning

1946

The Man from the Alamo poster
6.6

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Unable to expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead.

The Man from the Alamo

1953

Lady in the Lake poster
6.1

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Lady in the Lake

1946

Song of the Thin Man poster
6.7

While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in to clear their friends and uncover the real killer. Their investigation leads through a lively world of jazz clubs, radio personalities, high society, and backstage rivalries, where almost everyone has a secret and the next clue may be hidden in the music.

Song of the Thin Man

1947

City That Never Sleeps poster
6.0

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...

City That Never Sleeps

1953

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes poster
5.6

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1948

36 Hours poster
6.1

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

36 Hours

1953

Johnny Reno poster
6.5

The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.

Johnny Reno

1966

San Antone poster
6.7

After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...

San Antone

1953

Young Fury poster
5.6

A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.

Young Fury

1964

Law of the Lawless poster
6.5

A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

Law of the Lawless

1964

Hell's Half Acre poster
5.5

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

Hell's Half Acre

1954

The Restless Breed poster
5.5

Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.

The Restless Breed

1957

Las Vegas Shakedown poster
5.8

A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.

Las Vegas Shakedown

1955

Roadblock poster
5.9

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Roadblock

1951

The Clones poster
4.6

A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.

The Clones

1973

Woman They Almost Lynched poster
6.6

Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her brother is pulled into the town’s violence.

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953

Flat Top poster
4.6

A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War

Flat Top

1952

Arizona Bushwhackers poster
4.3

During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.

Arizona Bushwhackers

1968

The Big Tip Off poster
7.0

A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.

The Big Tip Off

1955

Hostile Guns poster
5.6

US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful duty, Laura tries to endear herself to shotgun rider Mike Reno in hopes he will set her free.

Hostile Guns

1967

Berlin Correspondent poster
6.0

Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.

Berlin Correspondent

1942

Waco poster
6.7

Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother. Written by Les Adams

Waco

1966

Top Gun poster
6.6

A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.

Top Gun

1955

That's My Man poster
6.7

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

That's My Man

1947

Sea of Lost Ships poster
7.0

The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.

Sea of Lost Ships

1953

Fort Utah poster
4.3

An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.

Fort Utah

1967

Black Spurs poster
6.3

A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.

Black Spurs

1965

The Shanghai Story poster
5.0

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

The Shanghai Story

1954

Rogue's Gallery poster
7.0

A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.

Rogue's Gallery

1968

Battle Zone poster
5.5

Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean lines their rivalry reaches a boiling point.

Battle Zone

1952

Johnny Angel poster
6.0

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

Johnny Angel

1945

Silent Fear poster
6.0

Mexico miner Pete Carroll is in Acapulco and meets Terry Perreau and falls in love with her after he hears her singing on a recording of "Extraño amor". The troubled Terry decides she wants to go shark fishing, so Pete poses as the skipper of a fishing boat, owned by Thursday, and off they go. Pete lands a mantray and cuts it up for bait and the sharks are soon swarming, and Terry dives in the water. Terry does likewise and fights a few sharks and gets his leg gashed but finally rescues her. Gradually, her friendship also turns into love. But back in Acapulco she learns of Pete's "fake skipper" joke, is all hacked off and goes to Mexico City with her friend Dr. Antez. There, a specialist, Dr. Rivas tells her that unless she has a dangerous operation she has only three months to live. Depressed even more than usual, if possible, she returns to the hotel and is met by!

Silent Fear

1956

The Big Frame poster
4.5

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.

The Big Frame

1952

Red Tomahawk poster
6.8

After Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The inhabitants own two machine-guns but don't want to lend them to him.

Red Tomahawk

1967

Courage of Black Beauty poster
5.2

A young boy is given a colt to raise as his own.

Courage of Black Beauty

1957

I, Mobster poster
6.6

The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.

I, Mobster

1959

The Hunted poster
5.6

A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.

The Hunted

1948

Night Freight poster
4.5

Trucker tries to put a railroad man out of business.

Night Freight

1955

Betrayed Women poster
5.1

Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.

Betrayed Women

1955