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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