Charles Lederer

Charles Lederer
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Director), 21 (Writer)
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Ocean\
Danny Ocean (Clooney) wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team, including Frank Catton (Mac), Rusty Ryan (Pitt) and Linus Caldwell (Damon). Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150 million. (imdb)
+3
His Girl Friday
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. (imdb)
+23
The Thing from Another World
Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. (imdb)
+5
Monkey Business
Barnaby Fulton, a chemist, is working on youth formula for a chemical company by testing it on chimps... (imdb)
+3
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise... (imdb)
+2
Kiss of Death
Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D'Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife and children will be taken care of (imdb)
+1
Ocean\
Eleven friends who know each other from World War II service plan to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night... (imdb)
+4
The Spirit of St. Louis
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927. (imdb)
+3
Ride the Pink Horse
In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge; or is it blackmail? FBI agent Retz is also after the elusive Hugo. Everyone in town is enigmatic, especially Pila, a mystical teenager who follows Gagin around and has premonitions of his death. Also involved are a classic femme fatale and an antique carousel with a pink horse... (imdb)
I Was a Male War Bride
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow. (imdb)
Kismet
Like a tale spun by Schehrazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand. (imdb)
+3
Follow That Dream
A family of squatters takes on a gambling chieftan and a corrupt social worker. (TCM.com)
A Global Affair
As an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN. Besides being a bachelor trying to cope with an infant, he must determine which nationality the baby is to have since he was abandoned on international territory. Women from several countries appear at his doorstep trying to tempt him and to get him to choose their country. (imdb)
It Started with a Kiss
After a whirlwind courtship, an Army officer and his wacky wife try to make their marriage work. (TCM.com)
Never Steal Anything Small
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music! (imdb)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involved with a psychotic, homicidal inmate who turns on him and winds up terrorizing his wife and murdering his friends. (imdb)
Her Husband\
A scientist invents a formula that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair. Complications ensue. (imdb)
Tip on a Dead Jockey
In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the war deaths of comrades in failed missions. Living in Spain, Tredman is despondent after losing all his money betting on a horse which ends up throwing its jockey and killing him. In order to get money and help a former comrade, Jimmy Heldon (Jack Lord), who is also broke, Tredman agreeds to a currency smuggling plot proposed by Bert Smith (Martin Gabel). (allrovi.com)
Wabash Avenue
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unraveled. (imdb)
Cock of the Air
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer. (imdb)
Within the Law
Mary Turner, is wrongly accused, by her employer Edward Gilder, and then convicted of theft. In prison she studies law books, and on release partners with another woman to legally scam wealthy men, including Dick Gilder, son of her accuser. (imdb)