Screenplay: Horace Jackson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Horace Jackson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Holiday

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Ann Harding · Mary Astor · Edward Everett Horton · Robert Ames

Plot The story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

Bolero

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

5.8

65 votes

5.8

65 votes

Men Are Such Fools

1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Wayne Morris · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Hugh Herbert

Plot Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push...

5.0

21 votes

5.0

21 votes

Lady with a past

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Constance Bennett · Ben Lyon · David Manners · Don Alvarado

Plot A wealthy, proper society girl finds that she's much more popular with men when she pretends to be a "bad" girl.

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The Bus Is Coming

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Wendell Franklin

Cast Mike B. Sims · Lonnie Bradford · Stephanie Faulkner · Burl Bullock

Plot A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he...

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The Animal Kingdom

1932 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith · George Cukor

Cast Ann Harding · Leslie Howard · Myrna Loy · William Gargan

Plot Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is...

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I Loved You Wednesday

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Henry King · William Cameron Menzies

Cast Warner Baxter · Elissa Landi · Victor Jory · Miriam Jordan

Plot Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they set up some light housekeeping together until she...

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Devotion

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Milton

Cast Ann Harding · Leslie Howard · Robert Williams · O.P. Heggie

Plot The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) "dutiful" daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself, and takes a job as governess to his son. Adapted from...

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We're Not Dressing

1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Bing Crosby · Carole Lombard · George Burns · Gracie Allen

Plot Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with...

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This Thing Called Love

1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

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Beyond Victory

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson · Edward H. Griffith

Cast William Boyd · James Gleason · Lew Cody · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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Model Wife

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Ann Harding · Robert Montgomery · Edward Everett Horton · Edward Arnold

Plot Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues psuedo-portait artist Marion Forsythe on her arrival from Europe after painting (and possibly being involved with) notables all over the continent. He convinces her...

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Dangerously Yours

1933 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Warner Baxter · Miriam Jordan · Herbert Mundin · Florence Eldridge

Plot A dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love.

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Sin Takes a Holiday

1930 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Constance Bennett · Kenneth MacKenna · Basil Rathbone · Rita La Roy

Plot Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited...

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Rebound

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Ina Claire · Robert Ames · Myrna Loy · Hedda Hopper

Plot Una mujer se casa con un hombre al que acaban de dejar plantado, y poco a poco se va ganando su afecto.

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A Woman Commands

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Pola Negri · Roland Young · Basil Rathbone · H.B. Warner

Plot Captain Alex Pastitsch falls into huge debts trying to ensure the expensive mistress. When the situation threatened his career, Colonel Stradimirovitsch has an idea how to fix it.

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The Lottery Bride

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · John Garrick · Joe E. Brown · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

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Suzy

1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Jean Harlow · Franchot Tone · Cary Grant · Lewis Stone

Plot American showgirl Suzy is in London in 1914. She loves Irish inventor Terry who works for an engineering firm owned by a German woman. After their marriage Terry is murdered...

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Bedtime Story

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Fredric March · Loretta Young · Robert Benchley · Allyn Joslyn

Plot A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion...

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