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.

6.2

88 votes

6.2

88 votes

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...

4.3

234 votes

4.3

234 votes

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

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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

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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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