Writing

Don Ryan

Known for

Writing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Broadway Musketeers poster
4.4

Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.

Broadway Musketeers

1938

Smart Blonde poster
6.4

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Smart Blonde

1937

Uncertain Lady poster
9.0

Elliot's affair prompts his wife Doris to love millionaire Bruce. After a messy gathering, a flat tire stops Doris from chasing Bruce's departing ship, which traps Elliot and Myra on board instead, leaving Bruce free to propose to Doris ashore.

Uncertain Lady

1934

Devil's Island poster
5.7

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Devil's Island

1939

Tear Gas Squad poster
5.2

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Tear Gas Squad

1940

You Can't Get Away with Murder poster
5.8

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939

Citadel of Crime poster
9.0

A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.

Citadel of Crime

1941

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop poster
7.2

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

1937

On Trial poster
6.1

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.

On Trial

1939

Midnight Court poster
5.1

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Midnight Court

1937

Missing Witnesses poster
7.0

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Missing Witnesses

1937

Nagana poster
8.0

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

Nagana

1933

Death Valley Outlaws poster
9.0

Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the fight. To get in with the gang, Johnny poses as an outlaw and then beats them to a gold shipment by robbing the train ahead of them. This gets him invited into the gang. They are all masked and unknown to Johnny, one of them is his brother.

Death Valley Outlaws

1941

Fly Away Baby poster
6.3

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

Fly Away Baby

1937

No artwork available
4.8

Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

Old Hickory

1939

West of Cimarron poster
6.5

The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.

West of Cimarron

1941