Directing

Louis B. Appleton Jr.

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Known for

Adventure in Sahara poster
5.8

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death

Adventure in Sahara

1938

Bulldog Drummond at Bay poster
6.5

"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1947

Strange Voyage poster
6.5

A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.

Strange Voyage

1946

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back poster
6.4

Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1947

The Desperate Women poster
10.0

The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.

The Desperate Women

1955

No artwork available
7.0

A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.

First Offenders

1939

Behind the camera

Adventure in Sahara poster
5.8

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death

Adventure in Sahara

1938

Bulldog Drummond at Bay poster
6.5

"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1947

Strange Voyage poster
6.5

A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.

Strange Voyage

1946

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back poster
6.4

Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1947

The Desperate Women poster
10.0

The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.

The Desperate Women

1955

No artwork available
7.0

A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.

First Offenders

1939