Screenplay: Waldemar Young

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


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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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

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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