Writing

Al Martin

Born — Died

1897-01-01 — 1971-10-10

Place of birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Prison Shadows poster
5.2

A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Prison Shadows

1936

Mississippi Gambler poster
6.5

A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.

Mississippi Gambler

1942

Burn 'Em Up Barnes poster
5.6

Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

1934

Gang Busters poster
6.0

Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.

Gang Busters

1942

The Eye Creatures poster
3.1

A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.

The Eye Creatures

1967

Invasion of the Saucer Men poster
4.9

Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.

Invasion of the Saucer Men

1957

The Mad Doctor of Market Street poster
5.5

A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

1942

Kelly of the Secret Service poster
10.0

A secret apparatus that controls bombs by remote control is stolen from a laboratory. A federal agent is assigned to recover it, and his investigation leads him to a creepy mansion that is honeycombed with secret passage ways.

Kelly of the Secret Service

1936

Happy Days poster
6.2

Winnie Winkle's wee brother Perry captains a rag tag sandlot team.

Happy Days

1926

Army Bound poster
9.0

Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.

Army Bound

1952

Fearless Harry poster
NR

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.

Fearless Harry

1926

The Shadow Strikes poster
4.7

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.

The Shadow Strikes

1937

A Guy Could Change poster
7.0

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

A Guy Could Change

1946

Money Madness poster
4.7

A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.

Money Madness

1948

Invisible Ghost poster
5.3

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Invisible Ghost

1941

Taming the Wild poster
6.0

Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton. But June is soon in trouble again, this time involved with a mob boss and a shady lady. Exasperated by his wealthy client's reckless escapades, Clayton determines to quit... until he realizes he has fallen in love with the little madcap.

Taming the Wild

1936

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus poster
5.4

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

1938

In the Money poster
6.7

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

In the Money

1958

The Mystery Squadron poster
6.5

Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.

The Mystery Squadron

1933

Blondie Knows Best poster
6.9

Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.

Blondie Knows Best

1946

The Strange Mrs. Crane poster
6.3

Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.

The Strange Mrs. Crane

1948

A Face in the Fog poster
6.0

A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.

A Face in the Fog

1936

The Wolf Dog poster
7.4

The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.

The Wolf Dog

1933

Flying Wild poster
6.1

A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.

Flying Wild

1941

Bars of Hate poster
7.0

Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is innocent and Jim Grant is the guilty party. Ted and Danny help her escape from Grant's henchmen. They have several narrow escapes while on their way to give the proof to the Governor.

Bars of Hate

1935

The Last Alarm poster
4.5

A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.

The Last Alarm

1940

Danger Ahead poster
5.0

Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.

Danger Ahead

1935

Caught in the Act poster
6.7

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.

Caught in the Act

1941

Trail Dust poster
5.3

Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.

Trail Dust

1936

No artwork available
7.0

A tale of a married couple who dress their little boy as a girl to fool his aunt, because she said she would only leave an inheritance if they had a girl.

She's a He

1930

The Law Rides poster
7.0

Hank Davis kills Jack Lewis to get his gold mine. Bruce Conway brings him in but then realizes Davis is the only one that knows where the mine is. Bruce and his pal Whitey rescue Davis from the lynch mob only to have Davis' gang catch them and leave them in the desert to die.

The Law Rides

1936

Stagecoach Buckaroo poster
7.5

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Stagecoach Buckaroo

1942

Ace of Cactus Range poster
10.0

A Secret Service agent goes undercover to unmask the leader of a gang of diamond thieves.

Ace of Cactus Range

1924

Island Captives poster
7.0

A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.

Island Captives

1937

Amazon Quest poster
4.0

Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom travels to Brazil to uncover the fate of his father and along the way meets Teresa, a local girl who offers to be his guide in the jungle. Eventually, they encounter three armed men who take them to Lobato, a bandit who knew his father. Once convinced that Tom is his friend's son, Lobato tells him a lengthy story which culminates with his meeting Tom's father, who rescued him from drowning. With the help of "flashbacks" from an obscure South American feature, Tom learns what really became of his father.

Amazon Quest

1949

The Albany Night Boat poster
10.0

Steve falls in love with Ken's beautiful wife.

The Albany Night Boat

1928

The Rogues' Tavern poster
6.4

A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.

The Rogues' Tavern

1936

No artwork available
NR

Columbia Pictures short.

The Curse of a Broken Heart

1933

No artwork available
9.0

Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive. In this one he manages to get himself tangled up coming down the pole at the fire station -- very amusing.

Long Hose

1928

Carolina Blues poster
5.8

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

Carolina Blues

1944