William H. Pine

Production

William H. Pine

Born — Died

1896-02-15 — 1955-04-29

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Run for Cover poster
6.8

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Run for Cover

1955

The Far Horizons poster
6.3

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

The Far Horizons

1955

The Plainsman poster
6.5

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

The Plainsman

1936

The Vanquished poster
4.9

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

The Vanquished

1953

Special Agent poster
9.0

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Special Agent

1949

The Lawless poster
5.9

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

The Lawless

1950

Nightmare poster
6.1

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

Nightmare

1956

The Last Outpost poster
6.1

The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

The Last Outpost

1951

Lucy Gallant poster
7.0

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Lucy Gallant

1955

Albuquerque poster
6.8

Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.

Albuquerque

1948

Sangaree poster
6.8

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

Sangaree

1953

Jivaro poster
5.2

At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.

Jivaro

1954

Hell's Island poster
5.5

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

Hell's Island

1955

El Paso poster
6.0

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

El Paso

1949

Shaggy poster
10.0

The film follows the story of a rancher's son, Robbie, his dog Shaggy and adventures they have with ranching neighbors and wild animals in the U.S. west.

Shaggy

1948

Those Redheads from Seattle poster
5.6

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Those Redheads from Seattle

1953

The Eagle and the Hawk poster
5.9

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950

Seven Were Saved poster
6.5

A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.

Seven Were Saved

1947

One Body Too Many poster
5.2

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

One Body Too Many

1944

High Powered poster
5.3

Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.

High Powered

1945

Captain China poster
5.5

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

Captain China

1950

Big Town poster
5.5

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Big Town

1946

Scared Stiff poster
4.7

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

Scared Stiff

1945

Hong Kong poster
5.1

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

1952

Manhandled poster
5.2

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Manhandled

1949

Midnight Manhunt poster
4.6

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Midnight Manhunt

1945

Fear in the Night poster
5.5

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

Fear in the Night

1947

Wildcat poster
5.7

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.

Wildcat

1942

Aerial Gunner poster
5.0

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Aerial Gunner

1943

Aerial Gunner poster
5.0

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Aerial Gunner

1943

They Made Me a Killer poster
5.7

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

They Made Me a Killer

1946

Crosswinds poster
5.9

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.

Crosswinds

1951

No Hands on the Clock poster
5.6

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

No Hands on the Clock

1941

We Refuse to Die poster
8.0

1942 Oscar nominated documentary

We Refuse to Die

1942

We Refuse to Die poster
8.0

1942 Oscar nominated documentary

We Refuse to Die

1942

Mr. Reckless poster
5.0

An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.

Mr. Reckless

1948

Big Town Scandal poster
5.3

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

Big Town Scandal

1948

Hollywood Extra Girl poster
7.5

A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935

A Letter From Bataan poster
5.2

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

A Letter From Bataan

1942

The Fashion Side of Hollywood poster
6.5

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

1935