F. Hugh Herbert

F. Hugh Herbert

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Director), 48 (Writer)

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    Our Very Own
    Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan... (imdb)
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    If You Could Only Cook
    Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning... (imdb)
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    The Moon Is Blue
    A young woman flaunts her virginity. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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    Melody Ranch
    His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. (imdb)
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    Three Faces West
    Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must make a decision between the two men. (imdb)
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    Sitting Pretty
    Suburban parents (Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara) of three bratty boys find a new baby sitter: know-it-all Mr. Belvedere (Clifton Webb). (Fandango.com)
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    Together Again
    Dunne is the mayor of a small Town in Vermont. Boyer is a famous sculptor from the big-city who has been hired to create a stature in the memory of Dunne's late 'sainted' husband. After some hesitation on the part of Dunne, the two fall in love, however there is much gossip from well meaning relatives. Dunne's daughter has been mistaken in thinking Boyer has eyes for her. Coburn seems to get Dunne and Boyer to the alter. (learmedia.com)
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    Road to Paradise
    A young girl falls in with a gang of criminals. One of their capers is robbing the house of a wealthy socialite who happens to look just like her. In the process of cleaning out the house, the young girl discovers that the socialite is actually her long-lost twin sister. Complications ensue. (imdb)
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    The Cardboard Lover
    A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. (imdb)
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    Margie
    argie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne; circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, in company with every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Then Margie's date for the prom gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone. (imdb)
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    That Certain Age
    Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do (imdb)
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    This Happy Feeling
    On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night. He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove her from party is next door neighbor. The two men compete for her affections... (imdb)
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    The Case of the Black Cat
    Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat. (TCM.com)
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    Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
    Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl. (imdb)
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    The Secret Bride
    Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life. (imdb)
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    Snowed Under
    Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony... (imdb)
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    Home, Sweet Homicide
    Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case. (imdb)
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    Smarty
    Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney, Vernon Thorpe (Edward Everett Horton), secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. (imdb)
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    Fly by Night
    A man is accused of a murder he didn't commit and goes on the run in order to clear his name.
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    Traveling Saleslady
    Angela Tritchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin to cut into his sales. Angela wants to enter the business but he thinks women have no place in a man's world. A drunken inventor, Elmer Niles, tries to interest Mr. Twitchell into his line of toothpaste with various cocktail flavors, but is shown the door. (imdb)
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    Almost a Bride
    A teenage girl who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way around the town. (imdb)
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    Journal of a Crime
    A wife shoots her husband's mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. (imdb)
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    The Stoker
    A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation. (imdb)
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    The Penal Code
    A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
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    Hotel Continental
    The Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. But, in one day, the building is going be demolished. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons.
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    Vanity Fair
    An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Hell in a Circus
    A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire..... (imdb)
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    One Year Later
    A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her. (imdb)
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    Those We Love
    A young author meets and marries the woman who bought the first copy of his new book. They live happily with their son, but some time later, as the husband is moving into the family's new home, a woman in the neighborhood tries to seduce him. Although he resists, his wife becomes very suspicious, and her distrust threatens to ruin the whole family. (imdb)
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    A Parisian Romance
    The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. (imdb)
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    By Candlelight
    Beautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince. (imdb)
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    Hit Parade of 1941
    A small radio station is saved of getting bankrupt by a backer, who invests money for a TV equipment, if the owner allows, that his dancing daughter Annabelle can dance and sing on the screen, but due to her voice, her singing had to be dubbed by the owner's girl friend Pat Abbott.But problems start, when the owner starts dating Annabelle. (imdb)
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    The Sin Ship
    A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers. (imdb)
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    We\
    Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same. (imdb)
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    Women in War
    A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen. (imdb)
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    The Personality Kid
    Success corrupts a young prizefighter and leads him to neglect his wife. (imdb)
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    Personal Maid\
    A maid helps her employers climb the social ladder and has a secretive interest in one particular socialite. (imdb)
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    Music for Madame
    A singer arriving in Hollywood is tricked by jewel thieves to distract a wealthy audience. After running away he'll have to find a way to prove his innocence to both the police and the young girl composer he's fallen in love with. One of the few films made by operatic tenor Nino Martini. (imdb)
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    Hollywood Bound
    Hollywood Bound (1928) - Short Film
    A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio. (imdb)
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    Retribution
    Retribution (1928) - Short Film
    Henry B. Walthall made his talkie debut in this 10-minute short from Vitaphone. In the film he plays a once rich man who has found himself in the dumps due to drug abuse and other issues. He goes to see a former friend (Tom McGuire), now a Senator, and he's not too open to giving the man a second chance.
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    Nobody\
    Teens of Hollywood parents board at an exclusive school and grapple with the usual teen issues while preparing to put on a show.
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    My Heart Belongs to Daddy
    A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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    West Point Widow
    West Point Widow is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson and Richard Denning.
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    The Widow from Monte Carlo
    Blackmail puts a social climber (Louise Fazenda) and a suitor (Warren William) in a duchess's (Dolores del Río) good graces.
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    The Women in His Life
    A brilliant, successful criminal defense attorney's life is turned upside down when he takes on a case of a murdered woman who turns out to be an old flame who left him 10 years ago.
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    People Will Talk
    A woman fakes an argument with her husband to teach her married daughter a lesson, but the husband takes it seriously. Will the gossip get the better of him or can he forget it?
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    Men in Her Diary
    Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up."
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    Vengeance
    John Meadham, has for years been in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives. This soon leads to a quarrel and then a disagreement between the stuffy, tightly-wound Summers and his wife over who was right in the quarrel.
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