Gia Scala
6 titles
Filmography
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Ride a Crooked Trail
(1958)Joe Maybe is an outlaw who assumes the identity of U.S. Marshall Jim Noonan after his death. Maybe is made the sheriff of Webb City by Judge Kyle and plots to rob the town bank. When Tessa, a former flame from New Orleans, shows up, Maybe persuades her to pose as his wife. The masquerade is further complicated by Maybe's rival, Sam Teeler, who plans to rob the bank with his own gang of outlaws.

The Two-Headed Spy
(1958)A British spy infiltrates and rises to prominence in the Nazi military in this engrossing World War II thriller based on a true story.

Don't Go Near the Water
(1957)On an idyllic South Pacific island thousands of miles from the fighting, United States Navy public relations officers write colorful--if entirely fictitious--stories about World War II and the life of the native peoples freed by the Allies as they cope with military bureaucracy and plot to get back to the war in this lighthearted comedy.

The Tunnel of Love
(1958)A drunken misunderstanding leads cartoonist Augie Poole—who couldn’t conceive with his wife—to believe he impregnated an adoption agency employee.

The Big Boodle
(1957)In pre-Castro Cuba, a casino card dealer in Havana is falsely accused of counterfeiting pesos. As self-protection, he is forced to uncover a racket involving highly respected banking officials while also dodging the suspicious Cuban National Police.
Tip on a Dead Jockey
(1957)An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor), is haunted by his memories of the Korean War and refuses to fly. So when he loses his last dollar on a horserace fixed by a smuggler, he forces himself to accept a $25,000 offer to transport a box of contraband currency from Egypt to Spain. But as Tredman makes the return flight home, he discovers his cargo also includes heroin as he races across the Mediterranean with Interpol hot on his trail. Co-starring Academy Award-winner Dorothy Malone and Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O), Tip on a Dead Jockey was adapted by Charles Lederer (Kiss of Death) from a short story by best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw. Originally intended for Orson Welles, it was directed instead by Richard Thorpe, the sixth of eight films he would make with Robert Taylor, which include the swashbuckling classics Ivanhoe and Knights of the Round Table.