Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber
Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
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Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother... (imdb)
+27
Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill
A set of cheap musicboxes that people are willing to kill for puts Sherlock Holmes on the case. (imdb)
+3
The Mask of Dimitrios
A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about the man. Along the way, he is joined by mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation. (imdb)
White Comanche
The twin sons of a white man and an Indian woman must struggle to overcome both their sibling rivalry and their conflicting identities. (All Movie Guide)
+7
Pony Express
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok develop the Pony Express uniting the country. Charlton Heston demonstrates his role as his generation's WIlliam Shatner.
+2
Man in the Vault
A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery. (imdb)
Denver and Rio Grande
Edmund O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad. (imdb)
+2
Fighting Man of the Plains
Former Confederate guerrilla Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James. (imdb)
Backlash
Jim Slater seeks a survivor of the Apache ambush his father died in. (imdb)
+7
Rage at Dawn
A special agent from Chicago is sent out west to bring in the notorious Reno brothers. (imdb)
+14
Northern Pursuit
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
+2
The Cariboo Trail
While the gold fever is sweeping the Cariboo Region, extending from Kamloops to Prince George, of British Columbia in western Canada, a man heads up into the region with his herd of cattle, because he thinks he can make even more money by rearing animals in the fine pastures. However, his traveling companion turns against him and a local tycoon opposes his plans, leading to a bloody gunfight during which all is resolved. (imdb)
+10
Arizona Raiders
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death. (imdb)
Town Tamer
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. (imdb)
Tension at Table Rock
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place. (TCM.com)
Flaming Feather
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder. McCloud makes a bet with Cavalry troop leader, Lt. Tom Blaine, that he will be the first to unmask the Sidewinder. (imdb)
The Kansan
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them. (imdb)
+10
Warpath
John Vickers joins Custer's cavalry regiment seeking private revenge. (imdb)
Hurricane Smith
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana. (imdb)
Silver City
An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in silver-mining country, with hopeful prospectors and greedy claim-jumpers abounding. The villain of the piece is miserly R. R. Jarboe (Barry Fitzgerald), who holds the lease on the silver lode worked by heroine Candace Surrency (Yvonne DeCarlo) and her father Dutch (Edgar Buchanan). (allrovi.com)
+1
The Great Missouri Raid
The Great Missouri Raid stars Wendell Corey and MacDonald Carey as famed Kansas outlaws Frank and Jesse James. Once more, the James Boys are depicted sympathetically as victims of circumstance forced into a life of crime. Joining Frank and Jesse on their bandit raids are the Younger Brothers, portrayed by Bruce Bennett and Bill Williams. The heavy of the piece is Union major Trowbridge (Ward Bond), who seeks vengeance after Frank and Jesse kill Trowbridge's brother in self defense. (allrovi.com)
+2
Accomplice
Private Eye Simon Lash is hired by an old flame to find her missing husband. (imdb)
The Challenge
In this episode of the Bulldog Drummond series, the amateur detective looks into the case of a murdered sea captain who was killed by his greedy heirs. Drummond must find the captain's hidden casket of gold before the captain's relatives do. (allrovi.com)
Dakota Lil
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits. (imdb)
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. (imdb)
Twenty Plus Two
A private eye's (David Janssen) search for a missing heiress leads him to a woman (Dina Merrill) from his Korean War past. (moviefone.com)
Tales of Wells Fargo
Set in the 1870s and 1880s, the series starred the Oklahoma native Dale Robertson as special agent Jim Hardie, noted at the time as "the left-handed gun". The series was influenced by the biography of Wells Fargo detective Fred J. Dodge.
+8
Shotgun Slade
Shotgun Slade was unlike other show heroes. He wasn't a Marshal, Sheriff, or gunfighter for hire, but Slade was a private detective, hired to track down criminals, return stolen money, or solve mysteries surrounding the death of townspeople. The show had more in common with shows like Peter Gunn (1958) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958), than Gunsmoke (1955) and Bonanza (1959). This show depended on strong characters and storylines than action. (imdb)
Oregon Trail
Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Higgins and his crony Judge. When he stands up to Higgins he is made Sheriff only to be shot in the back, After recovering he returns to get the man that shot him. When the gang attacks, he fights back from the newspaper office. When a stray bullet nicks the printing press plate he sees that it is solid gold and its not long before the masquerades on both sides of the law are revealed.