Screenplay: Waldemar Young
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Waldemar Young. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 37
The Unknown
1927 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz
Synopsis Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
West of Zanzibar
1928 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lionel Barrymore · Mary Nolan · Warner Baxter
Synopsis Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Later Anna returns and he finds her dead, leaving behind a...
7.1
309 votes
7.1
309 votes
Love Me Tonight
1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles
Synopsis Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into...
7.1
542 votes
7.1
542 votes
The Unholy Three
1925 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Mae Busch · Matt Moore · Victor McLaglen
Synopsis Three sideshow performers leave their lives of captivity and become "The Unholy Three." Echo the ventriloquist assumes the role of a kindly old grandmother who runs a bird shop. Tweedledee,...
7.0
351 votes
7.0
351 votes
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing
Synopsis Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Peter Ibbetson
1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Gary Cooper · Ann Harding · Ida Lupino · John Halliday
Synopsis This romantic period drama was acclaimed by surrealists when it was released in 1935. Cooper stars in the titular role, an architect who travels to meet with the Duke of...
7.0
684 votes
7.0
684 votes
Island of Lost Souls
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams
Synopsis An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
6.8
990 votes
6.8
990 votes
The Sign of the Cross
1932 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Claudette Colbert · Elissa Landi
Synopsis After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are...
6.8
540 votes
6.8
540 votes
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The Crusades
1935 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Loretta Young · Henry Wilcoxon · Ian Keith · C. Aubrey Smith
Synopsis The Third Crusade as it didn't happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get...
6.7
303 votes
6.7
303 votes
Cleopatra
1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Henry Wilcoxon · Joseph Schildkraut
Synopsis In 48 BC, Cleopatra, facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt, welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar, whom...
6.6
713 votes
6.6
713 votes
The Plainsman
1936 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford
Synopsis With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using...
6.6
726 votes
6.6
726 votes
The Blackbird
1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Owen Moore · Renée Adorée · Doris Lloyd
Synopsis Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win...
6.4
125 votes
6.4
125 votes
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The Show
1927 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Connelly
6.4
132 votes
6.4
132 votes
Where East Is East
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lupe Velez · Estelle Taylor · Lloyd Hughes
Synopsis "Tiger" Haynes (Chaney) is a animal trapper in China who lives with his beautiful daughter, Toyo (Velez). Toyo soon becomes romantically involved with Bobby (Hughes), who turns out to be...
6.2
97 votes
6.2
97 votes
Test Pilot
1938 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Lionel Barrymore
Synopsis Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
6.2
201 votes
6.2
201 votes
London After Midnight
1927 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Polly Moran · Henry B. Walthall · Marceline Day
Synopsis The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
6.1
234 votes
6.1
234 votes
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Men in White
1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Richard Boleslawski
Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Jean Hersholt · Elizabeth Allan
Synopsis A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating...
6.0
52 votes
6.0
52 votes
The Mystic
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Aileen Pringue · Conway Tearle · Mitchell Lewis · Robert Ober
6.0
45 votes
6.0
45 votes
The Trail of '98
1928 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Dolores del Rio · Ralph Forbes · Karl Dane · Harry Carey
Synopsis The Klondike gold strike of 1897 inspires fortune-seekers to head for Alaska. Joe and Jim, brothers from South Carolina; Lars, escaping a shrewish wife in Michigan; a poor farmer from...
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The Clean-Up
1917 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction William Worthington
Cast Franklyn Farnum · Agnes Vernon · Mark Fenton · Mae Talbot
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