Screenplay: Arthur St. Claire

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur St. Claire. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Philo Vance's Gamble

1947 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Basil Wrangell

Cast Alan Curtis · Vivian Austin · Frank Jenks · Tala Birell

Synopsis Private Detective Philo Vance (Alan Curtis) gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States. The first victim is the smuggler, Jeffrey Connor (Dan Seymour),...

Not rated

Not rated

Submarine Base

1943 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Albert H. Kelley

Cast John Litel · Alan Baxter · Eric Blore · Georges Metaxa

Synopsis Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of...

Not rated

Not rated

Rimfire

1949 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction B. Reeves Eason

Cast James Millican · Mary Beth Hughes · Reed Hadley · Henry Hull

Synopsis An undercover army officer investigating the theft of army gold shipments takes a job as deputy in a small town that's being terrorized by what they believe is the ghost of a gambler who was wrongly convicted and hanged for...

Not rated

Not rated

A Night for Crime

1943 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alexis Thurn-Taxis

Cast Glenda Farrell · Lyle Talbot · Ralph Sanford · Lina Basquette

Synopsis A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

Not rated

Not rated

Secrets of a Sorority Girl

1945 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Frank Wisbar · Lew Landers

Cast Mary Ware · Rick Vallin · Addison Richards · Ray Walker

Synopsis Linda Hamilton, president of Alpha Beta Sorority and Conover College campus queen, faints while at a sorority party in the company of ex-reporter Paul Reynolds, who is taking a post-graduate course. Linda learns from doctors that she has only one...

Not rated

Not rated

The Mask of Diijon

1946 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Jeannie Bates · William Wright · Denise Vernac

Synopsis A magician neglects his career and his wife while he pursues the study of hypnosis. His inattention causes his wife to leave him for a younger man. The magician them begins to use his hypnotic powers to manipulate people and...

Not rated

Not rated

King of the Stallions

1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Edward Finney

Cast Dave O'Brien · Chief Thundercloud · Sally Cairns · Rick Vallin

Synopsis Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

Not rated

Not rated

Arson Squad

1945 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Frank Albertson · Robert Armstrong · Grace Albertson · Byron Foulger

Synopsis Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one...

Not rated

Not rated