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.
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21 votes
6.3
21 votes
Bolero
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles · Mitchell Leisen
Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Sally Rand · Ann Sheridan
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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...
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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
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Edmund Lowe · Constance Bennett · Roscoe Karns · ZaSu Pitts
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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
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Charles Ruggles · Lee Bowman
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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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