Screenplay: Charles Kenyon
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Charles Kenyon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Iron Horse
1924 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast George O'Brien · Madge Bellamy · Charles Edward Bull · Will Walling
Plot The Iron Horse was John Ford's 50th film and remains his most celebrated of the silent era. Its theme of enterprise and achievement, its open-air locations and setting in a...
7.2
670 votes
7.2
670 votes
The Penalty
1920 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Wallace Worsley
Cast Lon Chaney · Charles Clary · Doris Pawn · Jim Mason
Plot What was the secret of the tremendous power exerted by Blizzard over everybody he met? Why did Rose, the secret service operative detailed to spy on Blizzard and ferret out...
7.0
214 votes
7.0
214 votes
The Petrified Forest
1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin
Plot This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Deanna Durbin · Leopold Stokowski · Adolphe Menjou · Alice Brady
Plot The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski...
6.6
116 votes
6.6
116 votes
Mandalay
1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Warner Oland · Lyle Talbot
Plot Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
6.4
37 votes
6.4
37 votes
The Golden Arrow
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Eugene Pallette · Dick Foran
Plot A cafeteria cashier is hired by a cosmetic firm's publicity agent to live the life of Daisy Appleby, heiress to a fortune. Gossip about her will keep the Appleby name...
6.4
40 votes
6.4
40 votes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle · Max Reinhardt
Cast Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale · Hobart Cavanaugh · Dick Powell
Plot Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the...
6.3
251 votes
6.3
251 votes
The Girl from 10th Avenue (Men on Her Mind)
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Bette Davis · Ian Hunter · Colin Clive · Alison Skipworth
Plot When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a...
5.9
27 votes
5.9
27 votes
Man Wanted
1932 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Kay Francis · David Manners · Una Merkel · Andy Devine
Plot Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary....
5.6
25 votes
5.6
25 votes
Strange Journey
1946 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast Paul Kelly · Osa Massen · Hillary Brooke · Lee Patrick
Plot On an isolate island, a reformer gangster and his wife battle a group of Nazi agents attempting to get their hands of uranium deposits.
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It Comes Up Love
1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Gloria Jean · Ian Hunter · Donald O´Connor · Frieda Inescort
Plot A couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Nils Asther · Helen Walker · Reinhold Schünzel · Paul Cavanagh
Plot A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered...
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Lady with Red Hair
1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Claude Rains · Richard Ainley · Laura Hope Crews
Plot A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown...
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Hearts of Oak
1924 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Hobart Bosworth · Pauline Starke · Theodore von Eltz · James Gordon
Plot Terry Dunniva, a retired sea-captain living in Marblehead, Massachusetts, adopts two children, Chrystal and Ned. As the girl grows to womanhood, Terry realizes his fatherly-love had grown to something stronger....
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Salute for Three
1943 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Betty Jane Rhodes · Macdonald Carey · Marty May · Cliff Edwards
Plot Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake,...
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Dick Turpin
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast José Mojica · Mona Maris · Andrés de Segurola · Romualdo Tirado
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I Loved a Woman
1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Kay Francis · Edward G. Robinson · Genevieve Tobin · Robert Barrat
Plot In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his selfish, social climbing wife refuses to divorce him. He continues...
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Secrets of an Actress
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Ian Hunter · Gloria Dickson
Plot Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Millie
1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Helen Twelvetrees · Lilyan Tashman · Robert Ames · James Hall
Plot Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.
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Street of Women
1932 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Kay Francis · Roland Young · Alan Dinehart · Gloria Stuart
Plot A married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for...
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