Writing

Jack Moffitt

Born — Died

1901-05-08 — 1969-12-04

Place of birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

15 titles

Mack Moffitt is best known for being an American screenwriter. He Died on December 4, 1969, aged 68 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Known for

Passage to Marseille poster
6.7

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

Passage to Marseille

1944

Double or Nothing poster
6.8

A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.

Double or Nothing

1937

Night Key poster
6.2

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

Night Key

1937

Ramrod poster
6.5

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.

Ramrod

1947

Our Leading Citizen poster
8.0

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Our Leading Citizen

1939

Central Airport poster
6.0

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.

Central Airport

1933

Behind the camera

Passage to Marseille poster
6.7

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

Passage to Marseille

1944

Double or Nothing poster
6.8

A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.

Double or Nothing

1937

Night Key poster
6.2

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

Night Key

1937

Ramrod poster
6.5

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.

Ramrod

1947

Our Leading Citizen poster
8.0

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Our Leading Citizen

1939

Central Airport poster
6.0

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.

Central Airport

1933

Rhythm on the Range poster
5.5

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

Rhythm on the Range

1936

Exclusive poster
7.0

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Exclusive

1937

In It for Love poster
NR

A surreal glimpse into the mind of a 1960s housewife reveals her deepest desire, a story set in the late 80s UK shows the vital role the lesbian community had during the height of the AIDS epidemic and four mums to a teenage girl set a plan to have 'the talk' with their blossoming daughter. Five stories of sapphic love set across different eras in time.

In It for Love

2022

I'm from Missouri poster
7.0

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.

I'm from Missouri

1939

Ride a Crooked Mile poster
7.0

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.

Ride a Crooked Mile

1938

Tropic Holiday poster
6.2

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Tropic Holiday

1938

Mountain Music poster
6.0

Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.

Mountain Music

1937

Melody Ranch poster
6.2

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Melody Ranch

1940

St. Louis Blues poster
7.3

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.

St. Louis Blues

1939