Screenplay: Frank Partos

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


The Snake Pit

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Leo Genn · Mark Stevens · Celeste Holm

Plot The Snake Pit is a startling and stark drama about mental illness, anchored by Olivia de Havilland's extraordinary, Oscar-nominated performance as Virginia, a newlywed succumbing to emerging psychosis. Even by...

7.0

754 votes

7.0

754 votes

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Basehart · Valentina Cortese · William Lundigan · Fay Baker

Plot Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving...

6.5

449 votes

6.5

449 votes

And Now Tomorrow

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Alan Ladd · Loretta Young · Susan Hayward · Barry Sullivan

Plot Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work....

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

The Uninvited

1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Ray Milland · Ruth Hussey · Donald Crisp · Cornelia Otis Skinner

Plot When brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald stumble across a vacant old house on the west of England, they know they have to buy it. They're forewarned by the...

6.4

429 votes

6.4

429 votes

Stranger on the Third Floor

1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Boris Ingster

Cast Peter Lorre · John McGuire · Margaret Tallichet · Charles Waldron

Plot Reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in a murder trial. His evidence - that he saw the accused Briggs standing over the body of a man in a diner...

6.1

499 votes

6.1

499 votes

Heritage of the Desert

1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · J. Farrell MacDonald · David Landau

Plot Nabb controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except Holderness and his stolen cattle. When Nabb refuses to sell, Holderness works an his son Snap who has run...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

The Last Outpost

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton · Louis J. Gasnier

Cast Cary Grant · Claude Rains · Gertrude Michael · Kathleen Burke

Plot In World War I, British-officer Michael Andrews is captured by a band of Kurdish raiders on the Eastern Front, and is rescued by a man calling himself John Stevenson, although...

5.7

90 votes

5.7

90 votes

Wings in the Dark

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Flood

Cast Myrna Loy · Cary Grant · Roscoe Karns · Hobart Cavanaugh

Plot Aeronautical engineer Ken Gordon and his faithful mechanic Mac are devoted to developing technology that will enable pilots to safely fly blind during adverse weather conditions. An irresponsible newsman, Nick...

5.6

49 votes

5.6

49 votes

Jennie Gerhardt

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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The Great Gambini

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Akim Tamiroff · Marian Marsh · John Trent · Genevieve Tobin

Plot A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancé and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The...

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Night of Mystery

1937 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Grant Richards · Roscoe Karns · Helen Burgess · Ruth Coleman

Plot Philo Vance takes a hand when, one evening, a daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and another one is wounded. The family comprises two sons and three...

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Romance in the Dark

1938 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Gladys Swarthout · John Boles · John Barrymore · Claire Dodd

Plot Gladys Swarthout, formerly of the Met, stars as Ilona Boros, a peasant girl with a magnificent voice who becomes a pawn in the rivalry between opera tenor Tony Kovach (John...

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Honolulu

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Eleanor Powell · Robert Young · George Burns · Gracie Allen

Plot Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to...

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Night Without Sleep

1952 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Linda Darnell · Gary Merrill · Hildegard Knef · Joyce Mackenzie

Plot Awaking one morning out of a drunken stupor, composer Richard Morton can't shake the feeling he has murdered a woman during the night.

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Her Bodyguard

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Edmund Lowe · Wynne Gibson · Edward Arnold · Alan Dinehart

Plot The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other...

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Rumba

1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Margo · Lynne Overman

Plot A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

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Rose of the Rancho

1936 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast John Boles · Gladys Swarthout · Charles Bickford · Grace Bradley

Plot It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants...

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The Jungle Princess

1936 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Ray Milland · Akim Tamiroff · Lynne Overman

Plot Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving...

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Guilty as Hell

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Richard Arlen · Adrienne Ames

Plot The sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse game where the murderer is always one step ahead until a final tense confrontation.

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Wharf Angel

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William Cameron Menzies · George Somnes

Cast Victor McLaglen · Dorothy Dell · Preston Foster · Alison Skipworth

Plot "Mother Bright's" place on the lawless, waterfront district of the 'Barbary Coast' in San Francisco is the toughest of all saloons that can be found, and that is where "Turk",...

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