Writing

Harold Shumate

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Buccaneer's Girl poster
5.8

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

Buccaneer's Girl

1950

Abilene Town poster
5.4

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

Abilene Town

1946

The Half-Breed poster
7.0

An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.

The Half-Breed

1952

When the Daltons Rode poster
6.2

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

When the Daltons Rode

1940

Saddle Tramp poster
6.5

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.

Saddle Tramp

1950

The Crime of Helen Stanley poster
5.6

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934

Behind the camera

Buccaneer's Girl poster
5.8

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

Buccaneer's Girl

1950

Abilene Town poster
5.4

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

Abilene Town

1946

The Half-Breed poster
7.0

An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.

The Half-Breed

1952

When the Daltons Rode poster
6.2

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

When the Daltons Rode

1940

When the Daltons Rode poster
6.2

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

When the Daltons Rode

1940

Saddle Tramp poster
6.5

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.

Saddle Tramp

1950

The Crime of Helen Stanley poster
5.6

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934

One Is Guilty poster
4.2

Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.

One Is Guilty

1934

The Kansan poster
6.0

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.

The Kansan

1943

Trail of the Vigilantes poster
10.0

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

Trail of the Vigilantes

1940

After the Dance poster
6.5

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.

After the Dance

1935

Charlie McCarthy, Detective poster
8.0

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

1939

Super Speed poster
7.0

A scientist invents a "superspeed" device that makes people fight for its ownership.

Super Speed

1935

The Parson of Panamint poster
5.8

As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.

The Parson of Panamint

1941

My Son Is Guilty poster
7.5

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

My Son Is Guilty

1939

The Forest Rangers poster
9.0

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.

The Forest Rangers

1942

Cafe Hostess poster
5.4

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Cafe Hostess

1940

End of the Trail poster
8.7

In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.

End of the Trail

1936

Panic on the Air poster
5.8

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.

Panic on the Air

1936

The Roundup poster
9.0

A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble.

The Roundup

1941

Girl in Danger poster
8.0

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Girl in Danger

1934

Hell Bent for Love poster
10.0

As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.

Hell Bent for Love

1934

Man of the Forest poster
6.3

Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.

Man of the Forest

1933

Pride of the Marines poster
8.0

A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.

Pride of the Marines

1936

Through the Breakers poster
4.0

Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.

Through the Breakers

1928

A Fight to the Finish poster
4.5

A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.

A Fight to the Finish

1937

Escape by Night poster
6.0

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

Escape by Night

1937

The River Woman poster
9.0

A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River

The River Woman

1928

The Outlaw's Daughter poster
7.0

Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.

The Outlaw's Daughter

1925

Hell-Ship Morgan poster
6.0

A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.

Hell-Ship Morgan

1936

Scarlet River poster
5.6

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

Scarlet River

1933

Miss Brewster's Millions poster
8.0

Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock, informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her spiteful Uncle Ned Brewster who tries to prevent it from happening.

Miss Brewster's Millions

1926

Cross Fire poster
6.5

Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.

Cross Fire

1933

The Frame-Up poster
6.5

A detective investigates a racing scam.

The Frame-Up

1937

The Chorus Kid poster
7.0

Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal education, so when she unexpectedly falls heir to a huge sum of money, Beatrice decides to make up for lost time.

The Chorus Kid

1928

Konga, the Wild Stallion poster
10.0

A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.

Konga, the Wild Stallion

1939

The Final Hour poster
7.5

A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.

The Final Hour

1936

The Call of Courage poster
8.0

A man falsely accused of murder is helped by a dog and horse.

The Call of Courage

1925

Against the Law poster
5.3

Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.

Against the Law

1934

A Man's Game poster
10.0

During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.

A Man's Game

1934