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Douglas Morrow

Born September 13, 1913 · Oswego, New York, USA

Died September 9, 1994 · aged 80

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Morrow (13 September 1913 - 9 September 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Morrow died of an aneurysm in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Morrow, …

Known For

Beyond a Reasonable DoubtBeyond a Reasonable Doubt · 2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
★ 5.72009
MovieThriller
Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
Bathing BeautyBathing Beauty · 1944
Bathing Beauty
★ 5.91944
MovieMusicComedy
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Beyond a Reasonable DoubtBeyond a Reasonable Doubt · 1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
★ 6.81956
MovieCrimeDrama
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Lady LuckLady Luck · 1946
Lady Luck
★ 5.61946
MovieComedy
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Trouble Along the WayTrouble Along the Way · 1953
Trouble Along the Way
★ 6.11953
MovieComedyDrama
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
The Stratton StoryThe Stratton Story · 1949
The Stratton Story
★ 6.71949
MovieDramaRomance
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
Along Came JonesAlong Came Jones · 1945
Along Came Jones
★ 5.81945
MovieWesternComedy
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Jim Thorpe – All-AmericanJim Thorpe – All-American · 1951
Jim Thorpe – All-American
★ 6.51951
MovieDrama
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

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