Screenplay: Arthur Hoerl
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur Hoerl. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Superman (TV Miniseries)
1948 · Series · 244 min. · United States
Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Thomas Carr
Cast Kirk Alyn · Noel Neill · Tommy Bond · Carol Forman
Plot Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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Tell Your Children (Reefer Madness)
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Louis J. Gasnier
Cast Dorothy Short · Kenneth Craig · Lillian Miles · Dave O'Brien
Plot Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae...
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4.3
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The Singing Cowgirl
1938 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Diege
Cast Dorothy Page · Dave O'Brien · Vince Barnett · Dorothy Short
Plot John Tolen is after Tom Harkins' ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy Hendricks and Dick Williams step in and discover that the gold actually...
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They Never Come Back
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Regis Toomey · Dorothy Sebastian · Edward Woods · Greta Granstedt
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Alaska Patrol
1949 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Jack Bernhard
Cast Richard Travis · Helen Westcott · Emory Parnell · Richard Fraser
Plot Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned...
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For Singles Only
1968 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Dreifuss
Cast John Saxon · Mary Ann Mobley · Lana Wood · Peter Mark Richman
Plot Anne and Helen move into a California apartment complex for single only where all the occupants are looking to hook up with Milton Berle as the building manager.
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The Lady in Scarlet
1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Reginald Denny · Patricia Farr · Jameson Thomas · Dorothy Revier
Plot When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
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Discarded Lovers
1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Natalie Moorhead · Russell Hopton · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Weeks
Plot In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star," at Eminent Studios. The...
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Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 26 min. · United States
Direction Hollingsworth Morse
Cast Richard Crane · Sally Mansfield · Scotty Beckett · Robert Lyden
Plot Cruising the galaxy in his space ship "The Orbit Jet" Space Ranger, Rocky Jones, Vena Ray, and 10 year-old Bobby defend the Earth and themselves against space-bound evil doers.
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The Devil Plays
1931 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Jameson Thomas · Florence Britton · Thomas E. Jackson · Dorothy Christy
Plot A murder mystery evolves during a weekend at an exclusive mansion.
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His Nibs
1921 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Charles Sale · Colleen Moore · Joseph J. Dowling · J.P. Lockney
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Campus Knights
1929 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Albert H. Kelley
Cast Raymond McKee · Shirley Palmer · Marie Quillan · Jean Laverty
Plot A womanizing playboy and a mild-mannered college professor are twin brothers. When they are constantly mistaken for each other by the hot babes on campus, they decide that rather than...
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Panama Patrol
1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Leon Ames · Charlotte Wynters · Adrienne Ames · Weldon Heyburn
Plot A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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Cross-Examination
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast H.B. Warner · Sally Blane · Natalie Moorhead · Edmund Breese
Plot Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a boy charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles...
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King of the Congo
1952 · Movie · 252 min. · United States
Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Wallace Grissell
Cast Buster Crabbe · Gloria Dea · Leonard Penn · Jack Ingram
Plot An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.
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Wild Weed
1949 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Sam Newfield
Cast Lila Leeds · Alan Baxter · Lyle Talbot · Mary Ellen Popel
Plot A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
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The Shadow Laughs
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hoerl
Cast Hal Skelly · Rose Hobart · Harry T. Morey · Walter Fenner
Plot The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
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Isle of Destiny
1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Elmer Clifton
Cast William Gargan · Wallace Ford · June Lang · Gilbert Roland
Plot Society glamor girl/aviatrix Virginia Allerton decides to alter her around-the-world flight by stopping off on the Pacific isle of Palo Pango where her brother, Lieutenant Allerton is stationed with a...
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Before Morning
1933 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hoerl
Cast Leo Carrillo · Lora Baxter · Taylor Holmes · Blaine Cordner
Plot A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's...
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South of Panama
1928 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Charles J. Hunt
Cast Carmelita Geraghty · Edward Raquello · Lewis Sargent · Philo McCullough
Plot To bolster his faltering gunrunning business by fomenting a war between two neighboring countries, an American profiteer sends his assistant to the Latin American republic of El Tovar, south of...
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