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
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Donald Cook · Mary Astor · Edward Arnold
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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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