William Bowers

William Bowers
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Writer)
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead. (imdb)
The Gunfighter
Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. (imdb)
Night and Day
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s... (imdb)
Convicted
A prison warden comes to believe that an inmate in his facility has been wrongly convicted, and sets out to help prove his innocence. (imdb)
Something in the Wind
A female DJ who also sings has been getting a monthly stipend from a prominent family. Everyone assumes that she has been having an affair with the patriarch. Things get only more complicated from there.
The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs. (imdb)
Imitation General
Master Sgt. "Murph" Savage impersonates a fallen general in the hope of inspiring his fellow soldiers to bravely fight their way out of a Nazi ensnarement. He might succeed if he can avoid the one soldier who knows his true identity. (imdb)
The Law and Jake Wade
Outlaw Clint Hollister escapes from jail with the help of Marshal Jake Wade, because once Clint did the same for him. Jake left Clint just after, but Clint finds him back and forces Jake to lead him to a loot Jake buried one year ago when he quitted Clint's gang. (imdb)
Sidekicks
Sidekicks (1974) - TV Movie
Traveling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the $15,000 bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw. (imdb)
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Comedy-Western about a turn-of-the-century lady investigator named Kate Bliss who goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming Robin Hood criminal of the plains, leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property. (imdb)
The Wild Wild West Revisited
The intrepid team of 19th century government underground intelligence agents made famous on the 1965-69 television series are brought out of retirement to discover whether clone-like imposters may have been substituted for the crowned heads of Britain, Spain, Russia and President Cleveland. (imdb)
More Wild Wild West
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s. (imdb)
Mrs. O\
"Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company with Kepplar's ex-wife, a police inspector and Mrs. O'Malley, a hearty radio contest winner from Montana. Kepplar is murdered, and a game of musical corpses commences, with hijinks in coach corridors as Malone and Hattie search for the killer. (imdb)
Cry Danger
Ex-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime he was framed for, in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. (imdb)
The Mob
Police detective Damico, outwitted by mob killer Blackie Clay, is nominally suspended; actually he goes undercover (as Tim Flynn, ex-con longshoreman) to find Clay and expose the waterfront rackets. (imdb)
The Web
Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. (imdb)
Way... Way Out
The Americans and Russians each have a two-person base on the Moon The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted... (imdb)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Lou, a traveling salesman, accidentally kills a man, and according to the law of the west he has to take care of the dead man's widow and children--all seven of them. Because the family is so unsavory, Lou knows that no other man will kill him, so he allows himself to be appointed sheriff and clears the town of lowlifes. Usual Abbott & Costello fare is highlighted with their zany antics. (movieretriever.com)
Tight Spot
Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand, and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel, several attempts are made on her life, and she falls for Vince, the policemen guarding her. (imdb)
Advance to the Rear
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to. (imdb)
My Man Godfrey
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves. (imdb)
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things. (imdb)
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment. (imdb)
She Couldn\
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town. (TCM.com)
Larceny
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead. (imdb)
The Gun and the Pulpit
In the days of the "Wild West", a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity. (imdb)
Seven Days\
Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an eternally smiling GI who suddenly falls heir to $100,000. There's just one catch: Johnny must marry heiress Terry (Ball), whom he's never met, within a seven-day period. (allmovie.com)
The Gal Who Took the West
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two brothers. (imdb)
Sing Your Way Home
Conceited war correspondent Steve Kimball, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded, teenaged hepcat entertainers. (imdb)
Abandoned
Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket. (imdb)
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Michael Landyard finds himself accused of stealing a valuable gem, and must find the real thief in order to clear his name. (imdb)
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Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and departs early the next morning, having assembled a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During this implausibly active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child. The reporter's grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York. A child is lost in the LA sewers (Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture: "Children Stay Out of These"). (imdb)
Assignment: Paris
Assignment - Paris is based on a serialized Saturday Evening Post yarn by Paul and Pauline Gallico. The film stars Dana Andrews as reporter Jimmy Race, assigned to the Paris bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. Race makes the acquaintance of French journalist Jeanne Moray (Marta Toren), who is forced to suppress a white-hot news story about an impending Iron Curtain political conspiracy because she lacks proof. (allrovi.com)
The Fabulous Suzanne
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stuff broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth. (imdb)
Jungle Patrol
In this war drama, set in New Guinea, a squadron of fliers must keep the Japanese at bay until a permanent air base is built. They successfully shoot down 100 Japanese planes without losing one of their own. The men get a welcome respite when a pretty USO entertainer visits. (imdb)
River Lady
During the 1850s, crooked lumber syndicate man Beauvais tries to take over the local mill while Sequin, the sensual owner of a gambling riverboat, tries to control the heart of Mississippi lumberjack Dan Corrigan.