
Directing
John H. Auer
Born — Died
1906-08-03 — 1975-03-15
Place of birth
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
5.8George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
The Flame
1947
8.5The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
The Avengers
1950
6.0An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Thunderbirds
1952
6.2Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
Moonlight Masquerade
1942
6.5A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Circus Girl
1937
5.4A down on his luck opera singer, prevents the suicide of a young girl and falls in love with her. She inspires him to manage a successful come back but his plans to marry her are abruptly reject it with disastrous consequences.
Su última canción
1933
Behind the camera
5.8George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
The Flame
1947
8.5The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
The Avengers
1950
6.0An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Thunderbirds
1952
6.2Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
Moonlight Masquerade
1942
6.5A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Circus Girl
1937
5.4A down on his luck opera singer, prevents the suicide of a young girl and falls in love with her. She inspires him to manage a successful come back but his plans to marry her are abruptly reject it with disastrous consequences.
Su última canción
1933
7.0An orphaned boy is informed that the money from his father's estate has run out, and he will have to leave the Holbrook Military Academy.
Orphans of the Street
1938
5.1A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1935
5.1A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1935
5.1A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1935
6.4While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
I, Jane Doe
1948
6.4While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
I, Jane Doe
1948
Features winning performers from the 'Major Bowes Amateur Hour' radio program, provides a fair measure of entertainment, and is salable by reason of the publicity and general ballyhoo which still surrounds the Bowes radio shows.
Major Bowes' Amateur Parade No. 1
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6.5Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Pardon My Stripes
1942
6.0Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
City That Never Sleeps
1953
6.0Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
City That Never Sleeps
1953
5.5A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Hell's Half Acre
1954
5.1An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Angel on the Amazon
1948
6.2In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
6.0Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Music in Manhattan
1944
6.0Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Music in Manhattan
1944
5.5A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.
A Man Betrayed
1941
6.6Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
The Eternal Sea
1955
6.6Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
The Eternal Sea
1955
6.8A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
4.6An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
Johnny Trouble
1957
4.6An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
Johnny Trouble
1957
8.0Rev. 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
7.5Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
4.0A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Devil Pays Off
1941
5.2A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Women in War
1940
7.5Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Invisible Enemy
1938
4.1A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Pan-Americana
1945
4.1A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
Pan-Americana
1945
6.5While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
Hit Parade of 1951
1950
9.0Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
I Stand Accused
1938
7.0Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
Outside of Paradise
1938
6.5Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Forged Passport
1939
8.0When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Smuggled Cargo
1939
8.0When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Smuggled Cargo
1939
