Philip Ober Movies

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes...

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s...

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20...

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to...

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old...

In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott...

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the...

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become...

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...

After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated...