Earle Snell Explained

Earle Snell
Birth Date:	May 23, 1886
Birth Place:	Santa Ana, California, United States
Death Date:	May 6, 1965 (aged 78)
Death Place:	Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation:	Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1919–1956 (film)

Earle Snell (1886–1965) was an American screenwriter. He worked on more than a hundred screenplays, beginning in the silent era. He worked for Universal Pictures as well as variety of smaller independent studios.^[1] Much of his later work was for Republic Pictures.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The Busher (1919)
• Just Squaw (1919)
• The Knockout (1925)
• The Half-Way Girl (1925)
• I Want My Man (1925)
• On Your Toes (1927)
• The Denver Dude (1927)
• Let It Rain (1927)
• Good Morning, Judge (1928)
• The Night Bird (1928)
• That's My Daddy (1928)
• The Fourflusher (1928)
• The Cohens and the Kellys in Atlantic City (1929)
• One Hysterical Night (1929)
• Clear the Decks (1929)
• It Can Be Done (1929)
• Hot Curves (1930)
• Embarrassing Moments (1930)
• The Pocatello Kid (1931)
• Subway Express (1931)
• Range Law (1931)
• Tombstone Canyon (1932)
• Steady Company (1932)
• Fast Companions (1932)
• Racing Youth (1932)
• Her First Mate (1933)
• Fargo Express (1933)
• Let's Be Ritzy (1934)
• Gridiron Flash (1934)
• Love Past Thirty (1934)
• Half a Sinner (1934)
• The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
• Branded a Coward (1935)
• Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
• Escape from Devil's Island (1935)
• Two in a Crowd (1936)
• Burning Gold (1936)
• Roaming Lady (1936)
• Wild Brian Kent (1936)
• Desert Phantom (1936)
• Everyman's Law (1936)
• Rainbow on the River (1936)
• Sunset of Power (1936)
• King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
• Rogue of the Range (1936)
• Make a Wish (1937)
• Western Gold (1937)
• It Happened Out West (1937)
• Secret Valley (1937)
• Wide Open Faces (1938)
• Private Detective (1939)
• Days of Jesse James (1939)
• Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
• Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite (1939)
• Homicide Bureau (1939)
• West of Pinto Basin (1940)
• Covered Wagon Days (1940)
• The Trail Blazers (1940)
• Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941)
• Gauchos of Eldorado (1941)
• Borrowed Hero (1941)
• Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)
• The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
• Wrangler's Roost (1941)
• Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941)
• Thunder River Feud (1942)
• Rock River Renegades (1942)
• Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
• The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942)
• Yanks Ahoy (1943)
• Taxi, Mister (1943)
• Bowery Champs (1944)
• Shadow of Suspicion (1944)
• Three of a Kind (1944)
• Colorado Pioneers (1945)
• Phantom of the Plains (1945)
• Wagon Wheels Westward (1945)
• Come Out Fighting (1945)
• Santa Fe uprising (1946)
• Sun Valley Cyclone (1946)
• Sheriff of Redwood Valley (1946)
• Conquest of Cheyenne (1946)
• Stagecoach to Denver (1946)
• Alias Billy the Kid (1946)
• The Last Round-Up (1947)
• Robin Hood of Texas (1947)
• Rustlers of Devil's Canyon (1947)
• Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947)
• Along the Oregon Trail (1947)
• Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947)
• Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947)
• Oregon Trail Scouts (1947)
• Carson City Raiders (1948)
• El Dorado Pass (1948)
• Desert Vigilante (1949)
• Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)
• Renegades of the Sage (1949)
• South of Death Valley (1949)
• Valley of Fire (1951)
• The Desperados Are in Town (1956)

Bibliography

• Martin, Len D. The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935–1959. McFarland, 1998.
• Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Pitts p.422-27
2. Martin p.7-196