Paul Burnford

Paul Burnford

Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Director)

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    Storm
    Storm (1943) - Short Film
    A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to lessen their impact, storms have to run their course, and there is really not much we can do about them. (imdb)
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    Skipper Learns a Lesson
    Susan, a little white girl, moves into a racially mixed neighborhood. Soon some of the local kids come over and ask her to play with them... (imdb)
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    Adventures of Rusty
    Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell, in the first film of the long-running "Rusty" series, seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog. (imdb)
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    Patrolling the Ether
    1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it purely as a fun hobby. He is informed by Bill Beck of the Radio and Intelligence Division (RID) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that amateur international radio communication is now banned due to spying a result of the war in Europe. Beck, on behalf of the RID, asks Phillip, however, to continue to monitor the airwaves for suspicious activity. (imdb)
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    Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows (1944) - Short Film
    A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer. (imdb)
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    Fall Guy
    Fall Guy (1945) - Short Film
    Leon Ames plays a guy who is embezzling from his bank. However, he's very clever and amoral--killing a bank examiner and framing an innocent man of the crime. In fact, the innocent guy has been sentenced to die and it's up to a determined investigator to turn up the truth before it's too late. And, it all ends in a tremendously violent and exciting finale.
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    Return from Nowhere
    A man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
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    Nostradamus IV
    Nostradamus IV (1944) - Short Film
    This short begins with a newspaper headline, "Mussolini Kicked Out". Narrator Carey Wilson emphasizes that this prediction by Nostradamus was featured in one of his previous short films dealing with the seer's prophecies. The focus of this short is on the "Fossan" Quatrain, in which Nostradamus foresees the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler.
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    Strange Destiny
    Strange Destiny (1945) - Short Film
    This Carey Wilson Miniature tells the true story of a humble YMCA worker, Asa K. Jennings (Louis Jean Heydt), who lived a productive life for 27 years after medical science doomed him to death. Jennings had a hand in saving 350,000 lives during the evacuation of Smyrna in 1922.
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