Writing

Stanley Roberts

Born 1916-05-17

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Caine Mutiny poster
7.2

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

The Caine Mutiny

1954

Who Done It? poster
7.0

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Who Done It?

1942

Louisa poster
6.5

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.

Louisa

1950

The Night Riders poster
5.8

Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.

The Night Riders

1939

Made in Paris poster
4.9

A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.

Made in Paris

1966

Under Western Skies poster
5.9

An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

Under Western Skies

1945

Up Front poster
7.0

Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".

Up Front

1951

Death of a Salesman poster
7.0

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Death of a Salesman

1951

The Pigeon poster
10.0

A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.

The Pigeon

1969

Pals of the Saddle poster
5.7

The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.

Pals of the Saddle

1938

Colorado Sunset poster
7.0

When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.

Colorado Sunset

1939

The Story of Will Rogers poster
7.0

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

The Story of Will Rogers

1952

Red River Range poster
5.2

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.

Red River Range

1938

Galloping Dynamite poster
9.0

When Bob Dillon finds gold, Reed kills him. Bob's brother Jim arrives to investigate his death. Avoiding the attempt on his life by Reed's gang, Jim confronts Reed's partner Jenkins. When Jenkins flees on Jim's horse, Reed mistakenly shoots his partner. Unable to get Jim with bullets, Reed blames the murder on him and when the Sheriff jails Jim it looks like he will soon be be hung.

Galloping Dynamite

1937

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NR

A psychoanalyst treats a noted atomic physicist who believes that he lives on Earth as a scientist in a government research laboratory, and on another planet where he is the dominant authority and has powers of telepathy and teleportation.

The Jet-Propelled Couch

1957

Where the West Begins poster
6.0

Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great actress by Barnes, who offers to buy her ranch, cheaply of course, so she can have enough money to get to the Big City. Barnes has Jack thrown into jail on a trumped-up charge of cattle rustling, and organizes a lynching party to get Jack permanently out of the way. Things get more complicated when Buzz, Jack's pal, discovers the secret of Lynne's ranch. How he engineers Jack's escape, and how they save Lynne adds suspense to a surprise climax.

Where the West Begins

1938

Three Texas Steers poster
5.0

Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

Three Texas Steers

1939

Hi'ya, Sailor poster
6.5

Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.

Hi'ya, Sailor

1943

Never a Dull Moment poster
7.0

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

Never a Dull Moment

1943

Prairie Moon poster
10.0

Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.

Prairie Moon

1938

Heroes of the Hills poster
8.0

In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.

Heroes of the Hills

1938

Code of the Rangers poster
10.0

A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.

Code of the Rangers

1938

Behind the Eight Ball poster
5.3

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

Behind the Eight Ball

1942

Penthouse Rhythm poster
8.0

Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

Penthouse Rhythm

1945