Writing

Robert Presnell Sr.

Born — Died

1894-04-29 — 1969-02-12

Known for

Writing

Credits

30 titles

Known for

The Real Glory poster
6.3

Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.

The Real Glory

1939

Second Chance poster
6.0

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Second Chance

1953

Bureau of Missing Persons poster
5.7

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she is the primary suspect - tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack the case.

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933

Money and the Woman poster
4.4

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Money and the Woman

1940

Hi, Nellie! poster
6.7

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Hi, Nellie!

1934

Wild Boys of the Road poster
6.8

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

Wild Boys of the Road

1933

Behind the camera

The Real Glory poster
6.3

Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.

The Real Glory

1939

Second Chance poster
6.0

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Second Chance

1953

Bureau of Missing Persons poster
5.7

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she is the primary suspect - tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack the case.

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933

Money and the Woman poster
4.4

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Money and the Woman

1940

Hi, Nellie! poster
6.7

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Hi, Nellie!

1934

Wild Boys of the Road poster
6.8

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

Wild Boys of the Road

1933

Mandalay poster
5.8

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Mandalay

1934

Employees' Entrance poster
6.2

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

Employees' Entrance

1933

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

For You I Die poster
5.9

A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

For You I Die

1947

For You I Die poster
5.9

A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

For You I Die

1947

Mary Jane's Pa poster
6.8

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.

Mary Jane's Pa

1935

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
8.0

Rev. Chris Saunders becomes entangled in a moral and legal crisis when he hears a confession that could exonerate a young man wrongly convicted of murder.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

1939

The Big Bonanza poster
6.3

Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.

The Big Bonanza

1944

The Guilty poster
5.5

Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.

The Guilty

1947

Disbarred poster
8.0

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.

Disbarred

1939

Female poster
6.3

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Female

1933

The Keyhole poster
5.0

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

The Keyhole

1933

The Narrow Corner poster
5.8

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

The Narrow Corner

1933

Attack! The Battle for New Britain poster
7.0

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

1944

High Tide poster
5.9

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

High Tide

1947

The Key poster
4.9

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

The Key

1934

Hurricane Smith poster
4.8

Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.

Hurricane Smith

1941

Four Days Wonder poster
9.0

Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton into her Sherlock shenanigans.

Four Days Wonder

1936

Cuban Pete poster
6.0

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.

Cuban Pete

1946

Left Over Ladies poster
7.0

Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.

Left Over Ladies

1931

The Bargain poster
9.0

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

The Bargain

1931

Second Chance poster
10.0

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.

Second Chance

1950

Sofia poster
6.2

A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.

Sofia

1948

The Stilwell Road poster
10.0

Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road--originally called The Ledo Road--a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II. The road, which was built by 63,000 workers and cost $150 million, was used by the British, Chinese and Indian armies to transport supplies, troops and other essentials from India to Burma in order to keep the Japanese from overrunning the entire theater.

The Stilwell Road

1945