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

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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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Not rated