Denison Clift

Writing

Denison Clift

Born — Died

1885-05-03 — 1961-12-17

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

35 titles

Denison Clift (May 5, 1885 – December 17, 1961) was an American playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Known for

End of the Road poster
5.8

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.

End of the Road

1944

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste poster
5.6

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

1935

Square Shooter poster
8.0

Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.

Square Shooter

1920

The City of Play poster
8.0

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift

The City of Play

1929

Secrets of Scotland Yard poster
6.2

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.

Secrets of Scotland Yard

1944

Wolves of the Rail poster
6.0

Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.

Wolves of the Rail

1918

Behind the camera

End of the Road poster
5.8

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.

End of the Road

1944

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste poster
5.6

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

1935

Square Shooter poster
8.0

Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.

Square Shooter

1920

The City of Play poster
8.0

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift

The City of Play

1929

The City of Play poster
8.0

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift

The City of Play

1929

Secrets of Scotland Yard poster
6.2

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.

Secrets of Scotland Yard

1944

Wolves of the Rail poster
6.0

Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.

Wolves of the Rail

1918

Ports of Call poster
7.0

Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except little Peggy, Marjorie's kid sister. Marjorie pleads with Kirk to save the child, but he lacks the courage, and Randolph Sherman, Kirk's rival for Marjorie's affections, plays the hero part. For Kirk's public display of cowardice, he is disowned by his father and rejected by Marjorie, who soon marries Sherman. Kirk drifts to the South Seas, eventually landing in Manila, where he becomes a derelict. When Lillie, a fellow drifter, is roughly handled in a bar, Kirk goes to her assistance; she expresses appreciation for his bravery and soon effects his regeneration through her faith in him. Kirk and Lillie journey to the interior, and they obtain work on a plantation recently purchased by Randolph Sherman. During a native uprising, Sherman is killed, and Kirk saves Marjorie from certain death.

Ports of Call

1925

The Iron Heart poster
8.0

Upon her father's death, Esther Regan promises to carry out his wishes that she protect his workers and manage the Regan Steel Mills as well as he. The Associated Trust has been trying to gain control of the Regan plant, but has always met with resistance from Regan. Now that he is dead, they see their opportunity for a coup and send Darwin McAllister to accomplish the deed.

The Iron Heart

1920

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8.0

A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.

Diana of the Crossways

1922

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10.0

'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)

High Seas

1930

No artwork available
10.0

'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)

High Seas

1930

The Challenge of the Law poster
9.0

A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...

The Challenge of the Law

1920

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots poster
10.0

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots

1924

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots poster
10.0

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots

1924

A Woman of No Importance poster
7.0

A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

A Woman of No Importance

1921

Wedlock poster
NR

Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engagement party given for his sister Jane, but Jane's fiance, Lord Cecil Graydon, threatens to break off the betrothal unless Granger's marriage is annulled. To please his sister, Granger sacrifices Margery, who seeks work and later gives birth to a child. Following the baby's death, Margery goes West, where she befriends an old miner who later leaves her his fortune. Meanwhile, Granger becomes involved in a fraudulent mining deal, and because of George Osborne's perjured testimony, he is sent to prison for five years. When he escapes, Margery agrees to hide him and is ultimately responsible for obtaining his pardon. Granger then remarries the wife he once abandoned.

Wedlock

1918

Taxi for Two poster
10.0

'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)

Taxi for Two

1929

Out to Win poster
10.0

A tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.

Out to Win

1923

What Would You Do poster
9.0

Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.

What Would You Do

1920

No artwork available
9.0

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

The Old Wives' Tale

1921

No artwork available
9.0

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

The Old Wives' Tale

1921

A Bill of Divorcement poster
10.0

Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....

A Bill of Divorcement

1922

No artwork available
9.0

A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.

Bentley's Conscience

1922

No artwork available
9.0

A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.

Bentley's Conscience

1922

Flames of Desire poster
8.0

Daniel Strathmore, has wealth and influence. He forms an infatuation for a beautiful adventuress and when a friend interferes he fights him and the friend is accidentally killed. Strathmore takes care of the friend's daughter, who later falls in love with him. She forgives the past and they marry. A lost film.

Flames of Desire

1924

Flames of Desire poster
8.0

Daniel Strathmore, has wealth and influence. He forms an infatuation for a beautiful adventuress and when a friend interferes he fights him and the friend is accidentally killed. Strathmore takes care of the friend's daughter, who later falls in love with him. She forgives the past and they marry. A lost film.

Flames of Desire

1924

No artwork available
7.0

Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shannon does battles with ruthless opium smugglers in LA's Chinatown

The Midnight Patrol

1918

No artwork available
7.0

A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.

All That Glitters

1936

The Last Straw poster
7.0

A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.

The Last Straw

1920

Gambling in Souls poster
10.0

Robert Dunning commits suicide after being financially ruined by a cunning Wall Street stockbroker. Marcia Dunning vows revenge for her husband's death and becomes a roulette operator at a gambling house frequented by the stockbroker's son. She uses a magnetized ring on her finger to trick the son, who then steals from his father and causes the man's financial ruin.

Gambling in Souls

1919

Snares of Paris poster
7.0

Prominent French diplomat Emile Coullard is preparing an important international trade agreement. When Belloc appears at Coullard's country home to help prepare the document, it becomes evident that Belloc had met Marguerite, Coullard's charming wife, before.

Snares of Paris

1919

Paradise poster
8.0

The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.

Paradise

1928

Honor Among Men poster
8.0

Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is shot by the police. Patricia, an American heiress touring the world, nurses the prince. The king enlists a count's unfaithful wife and his mistress to betray the prince to the conspirators in office. When the king meets Patricia he forgets his mistress and seeks to wed her although she and the prince are in love.

Honor Among Men

1924

Honor Among Men poster
8.0

Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is shot by the police. Patricia, an American heiress touring the world, nurses the prince. The king enlists a count's unfaithful wife and his mistress to betray the prince to the conspirators in office. When the king meets Patricia he forgets his mistress and seeks to wed her although she and the prince are in love.

Honor Among Men

1924