Screenplay: Karl Kamb

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


Carnegie Hall

1947 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Prince · Frank McHugh · Martha O'Driscoll

Plot A mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when grown, the son prefers to...

8.0

34 votes

8.0

34 votes

Whispering Smith

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Robert Preston · Brenda Marshall · Donald Crisp

Plot Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to...

5.8

194 votes

5.8

194 votes

The Kid from Texas

1950 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Audie Murphy · Gale Storm · Albert Dekker · Shepperd Strudwick

Plot Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage...

5.5

72 votes

5.5

72 votes

Lulu Belle

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Dorothy Lamour · George Montgomery · Albert Dekker · Otto Kruger

Plot Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Tarzan and the She-Devil

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Lex Barker · Henry Brandon · Joyce Mackenzie · Monique van Vooren

Plot Ivory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured. Jane is also captured and believed killed,...

4.2

39 votes

4.2

39 votes

Starlift

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Virginia Mayo · Gene Nelson

Plot Air Force fliers Rick Williams and Mike Nolan attempt to meet film star Nell Wayne, with whom Rick shares a hometown but not much else. Fellow film stars Doris Day...

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Main Street on the March! (S)

1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast John Nesbitt · Margaret Bert · Milton Kibbee · Barbara Bedford

Plot The film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how...

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Main Street After Dark

1945 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Edward Arnold · Selena Royle · Tom Trout · Audrey Totter

Plot Ma Dibson, her son, daughter and daughter-in-law happily greet son Lefty as he is released from prison. The family makes its living by stealing from (mostly) servicemen who the two...

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Soak the Poor (S)

1937 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Leslie Fenton · Leon Ames · Ted Billings · John Butler

Plot Entry number 11 in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers...

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Pardon My Past

1945 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Fred MacMurray · Marguerite Chapman · Akim Tamiroff · William Demarest

Plot Recently discharged GI's Eddie York and Chuck Gibson are en route to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin to start their own mink farm. While in New York, Eddie is mistaken for wealthy...

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Plan for Destruction (S)

1943 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Lewis Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Adolf Hitler · Frank Reicher

Plot This short documentary looks at Nazi Germany's plan for world domination by reviewing the effects of and bitterness felt over the defeat in WWI and focusing on the geopolitical concepts...

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Luxury Liner

1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Richard Whorf

Cast George Brent · Jane Powell · Lauritz Melchior · Frances Gifford

Plot What do you do when you are an effervescent teen called Polly and you have a dad who is the skipper of a luxury liner? You ask him to take...

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Somewhere I'll Find You

1942 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Robert Sterling · Patricia Dane

Plot Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II, and later find her doing orphan work in China.

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The Wrong Way Out (S)

1938 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Gustav Machatý

Cast Kenneth Howell · Linda Perry

Plot Ann Stevens and "Windy" Brown get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make...

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Help Wanted (S)

1939 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Tom Neal · Jo Ann Sayers · Clem Bevans · Edward Pawley

Plot A racketeer sets up an employment agency, and then sends his henchmen to lineup foremen in companies that employ unskilled labor. The foreman is promised a cut on each new...

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Miracle Money (S)

1938 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast John Miljan · Boyd Crawford · Robert Middlemass · E. Alyn Warren

Plot A quack doctor convinces people that this "Volta Ray" cures cancer.

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Bad Boy

1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Audie Murphy · Lloyd Nolan · Jane Wyatt · James Gleason

Plot Danny is a juvenile delinquent sentenced to Variety Club Ranch in lieu of jail. He charms the headmistress and goads everyone else. The marshal sets out to find source of...

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Drunk Driving (S)

1939 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Dick Purcell · Jo Ann Sayers · Richard Lane

Plot In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes...

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While America Sleeps (S)

1939 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Dick Purcell · Lenita Lane · Egon Brecher · Frederick Vogeding

Plot An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan...

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