
Writing
Boris Ingster
Born — Died
1903-10-29 — 1978-08-03
Place of birth
Riga, Russian Empire
Known for
Writing
Credits
16 titles
Boris Ingster (October 29, 1903 - August 2, 1978) was a Latvian-American screenwriter, film and television director and producer notable for his role in launching the film noir genre. In the 1930s he was a screenwriter on several films. He made his directorial debut in 1940 with the film noir movie Stranger on the Third Floor. In the 1950s and 1960s he shifted much of his attention to producing television series in genres ranging from drama to Westerns and spy thrillers.
Known for
5.414-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria, who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin. The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine. Edited from TV series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Guns of Diablo
1964
6.5Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
6.2Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Happy Landing
1938
5.1International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
The Karate Killers
1967
5.5A biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin to recover or destroy the process before it falls into the hands of the THRUSH.
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
6.1After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
I'll Give a Million
1938
Behind the camera
5.414-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria, who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin. The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine. Edited from TV series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Guns of Diablo
1964
6.5Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
6.2Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Happy Landing
1938
5.1International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
The Karate Killers
1967
5.5A biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin to recover or destroy the process before it falls into the hands of the THRUSH.
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
6.1After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
I'll Give a Million
1938
6.7A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
5.4On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
Miracle on Main Street
1939
6.8A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
The Judge Steps Out
1947
6.8A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
The Judge Steps Out
1947
6.6"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
6.8A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Thin Ice
1937
6.0The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its Treasury agents inside a criminal mob.
Southside 1-1000
1950
6.0The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its Treasury agents inside a criminal mob.
Southside 1-1000
1950
8.5A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.
Something for the Birds
1952
6.2Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
Paris Underground
1945
