Winston Miller

Writing

Winston Miller

Born 1910-06-22 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Acting credits

The Iron Horse poster
6.8

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

The Iron Horse

1925

The Iron Horse poster
6.8

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

The Iron Horse

1925

No artwork available
9.0

A silent film from 1928.

God of Mankind

1928

Little Church Around the Corner poster
6.1

A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.

Little Church Around the Corner

1923

Stella Dallas poster
7.1

An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.

Stella Dallas

1925

The Power of a Lie poster
10.0

At a wild surprise party John Hammond signs a note for his struggling friend, architect Richard Burton, but later denies his presence at the affair in order to preserve his reputation.

The Power of a Lie

1923

Kentucky Pride poster
6.2

This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes as her breeder (Henry B. Walthall) is forced to sell her when he loses everything in a poker game. Several of the era’s most famous racehorses make appearances, including the legendary champion thoroughbred Man o’ War.

Kentucky Pride

1925

Ask Dad poster
6.3

Tommy, home from school, is infatuated with his father's secretary, so he goes to their office to try to tell her.After quoting much poetry, he finds she loves another, causing more quotes.

Ask Dad

1929

The Love Piker poster
10.0

Hope Warner, a wealthy young woman, is arrested for speeding in her roadster and meets Martin Van Huisen, a young civil engineer who helps her. Hope falls in love with Martin, but when their wedding is approaching, she is self-conscious about Martin's father's poverty and doesn't invite him to the ceremony.

The Love Piker

1923

In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea poster
7.5

An early widescreen film that was told by cutting the two sides of the image off and replacing them with a different image.

In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea

1925

The Man Who Came Back poster
10.0

Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.

The Man Who Came Back

1924

Behind the camera

My Darling Clementine poster
7.5

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

My Darling Clementine

1946

The Far Horizons poster
6.3

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

The Far Horizons

1955

The Bounty Hunter poster
6.8

A year after a violent train robbery, the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

The Bounty Hunter

1954

Run for Cover poster
6.8

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Run for Cover

1955

Hound-Dog Man poster
4.7

A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother. The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint, and his reckless buddy Blackie Scantling who take him hunting in hillbilly country. The boy falls in love with a beautiful mountain girl, while Blackie has his own fling with another attractive hillbilly maiden, Nita Stringer, and then becomes mixed up with an older, married woman, Sussie Bell.

Hound-Dog Man

1959

Carson City poster
6.2

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Carson City

1952

Lucy Gallant poster
7.0

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Lucy Gallant

1955

Dick Tracy poster
5.2

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

Dick Tracy

1937

The Last Outpost poster
6.1

The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

The Last Outpost

1951

Female Artillery poster
9.0

An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.

Female Artillery

1973

They Made Me a Killer poster
5.7

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

They Made Me a Killer

1946

Tension at Table Rock poster
6.2

When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

Tension at Table Rock

1956

Rocky Mountain poster
5.8

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.

Rocky Mountain

1950

Man from Cheyenne poster
8.0

Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.

Man from Cheyenne

1942

Station West poster
6.4

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

Station West

1948

The Boy from Oklahoma poster
5.7

A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

The Boy from Oklahoma

1954

Mardi Gras poster
6.1

A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.

Mardi Gras

1958

Escapade in Japan poster
5.7

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country.

Escapade in Japan

1957

Relentless poster
6.4

A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.

Relentless

1948

Jivaro poster
5.2

At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.

Jivaro

1954

The Aquarians poster
6.5

A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.

The Aquarians

1970

Hong Kong poster
5.1

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

1952

Heart of the Rio Grande poster
9.0

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.

Heart of the Rio Grande

1942

Indict and Convict poster
5.0

A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.

Indict and Convict

1974