Writing

Hector Turnbull

Born — Died

1884-09-11 — 1934-04-08

Place of birth

Arlington - New Jersey - USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Morocco poster
6.5

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

Morocco

1930

The Cheat poster
6.0

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

The Cheat

1915

Alien Souls poster
NR

A Japanese maiden is pursued by an unscrupulous American young man who falsely believes her to have great riches.

Alien Souls

1916

Double Crossed poster
NR

Young Frank Stratton, the scion of a wealthy family who is temporarily short of funds, has borrowed a valuable bracelet and hasn't returned it to its owner. A crooked detective, Jim Foley, finds the bracelet in Stratton's possession and promises not to arrest him for it in return for Stratton signing a confession that he stole it, which Foley intends to use at a future date. Years pass and a political boss in danger of losing an election asks Foley's help in getting valuable papers from his opponent, Worthington Lawrence. Foley knows that Lawrence is a friend of Stratton and tells Stratton that unless he steals those papers Foley will make his signed confession public. Complications ensue.

Double Crossed

1917

Underworld poster
7.1

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Underworld

1927

Doomsday poster
7.0

A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.

Doomsday

1928

The Shopworn Angel poster
9.0

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

The Shopworn Angel

1928

The Cheat poster
8.0

After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.

The Cheat

1923

Love Over Night poster
7.0

Richard Hill is a subway ticket taker who believes beautiful Jeanette Stewart is involved in a robbery, but he still falls in love with her and tries to stop her wedding.

Love Over Night

1928

The Heart of Nora Flynn poster
NR

Nora is nursemaid to a wealthy family and in love with their chauffeur Nolan. When she hides her mistress' lover in her room, jealous Nolan shoots him and Nora, who refuses to tell about her mistress affair, is dismissed.

The Heart of Nora Flynn

1916

Midnight Madness poster
9.0

In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.

Midnight Madness

1928

The Marriage of Kitty poster
NR

A young woman who agrees to a sham wedding with Lord Riginald Belsize because his inheritance prohibits him from marrying his girlfriend who is an actress. Belsize is convinced if he marries someone else and hires that woman to be his "wife" he can hide his relationship with his girlfriend.

The Marriage of Kitty

1915

For the Defense poster
NR

Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. The butler intervenes and a fight results in the death of the assailant. A French girl, escaping from a pimp who kidnapped her, witnesses the crime. The butler convinces his master he is the killer, and must flee. He joins the girl but is caught. She helps police expose the real killer by going undercover as another maid.

For the Defense

1916

Only the Brave poster
7.0

Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself be caught with maps showing false Union troop positions. Of course, the penalty, then as now, is execution.

Only the Brave

1930

Out of the Darkness poster
5.0

Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.

Out of the Darkness

1915

The Selfish Woman poster
NR

A young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also wants the job, and tries to persuade his son to give up the work, but Tom refuses. Tom falls for a society girl named Alice Hale, who marries him to bring prestige to her family. Initially, Alice plots against Tom, but Tom wins her over and they work together to defeat those who are plotting to destroy Tom's work.

The Selfish Woman

1916