Writing

Lynn Riggs

Born — Died

1899-08-31 — 1954-06-30

Known for

Writing

Credits

7 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Plainsman poster
6.5

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

The Plainsman

1936

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror poster
6.5

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

1942

Sherlock Holmes in Washington poster
6.8

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

1943

The Garden of Allah poster
6.0

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

The Garden of Allah

1936

Madame Spy poster
6.5

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his side. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins associating with suspected Nazi functionaries, and wonders if she may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities.

Madame Spy

1942

Destination Unknown poster
7.0

Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

Destination Unknown

1942

A Day in Santa Fe poster
4.8

“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle of people and places of Santa Fe in the early 1930s, when it earned the epithet ‘Greenwich Village of the West.’” - William M. Butler

A Day in Santa Fe

1931