Screenplay: Lionel Houser
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lionel Houser. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Secret Fury
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Mel Ferrer
Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Ryan · Jane Cowl · Paul Kelly
Plot During the ceremony marrying Ellen and David, a stranger stands up when that phrase "if anyone knows why these two may not be joined..." is spoken. The stranger announces that...
6.4
30 votes
6.4
30 votes
Dark Command
1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers
Plot Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads...
6.4
420 votes
6.4
420 votes
Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Dennis Morgan · Sydney Greenstreet · Reginald Gardiner
Plot Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and...
6.4
216 votes
6.4
216 votes
First Love
1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Stack · Eugene Pallette · Helen Parrish
Plot In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially...
5.9
30 votes
5.9
30 votes
Courage of Lassie
1946 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Fred M. Wilcox
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Frank Morgan · Tom Drake · Selena Royle
Plot Bill's separated from his litter and grows up on an island, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie, who nurses and cares of...
4.6
311 votes
4.6
311 votes
Devil's Squadron
1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Richard Dix · Karen Morley · Lloyd Nolan · Shirley Ross
Plot Martha Dawson (Karen Morley), the daughter of an aircraft manufacturer building airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes over the running of the plant when her father dies. She...
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The Girl from Mexico
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Goodwins
Cast Lupe Velez · Donald Woods · Leon Errol · Linda Hayes
Plot In the first entry of an unintended-series that turned into a long-running series for RKO, Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay,...
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She's Dangerous
1937 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster · Milton Carruth
Cast Tala Birell · Walter Pidgeon · Cesar Romero · Walter Brennan
Plot A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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The Public Menace
1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Jean Arthur · Douglass Dumbrille · George Murphy · George McKay
Plot Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside,...
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Blind Alibi
1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Richard Dix · Whitney Bourne · Eduardo Ciannelli · Frances Mercer
Plot Paul Dove lives in Paris and works as an artist. He is visited by Julia Fraser an art buyer and critic who irritates Dove with her opinionated attitude. When she...
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Border Café
1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Harry Carey · John Beal · Armida · George Irving
Plot Easterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. After losing the money his father sent him to buy...
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Let Them Live
1937 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Harold Young
Cast John Howard · Nan Grey · Edward Ellis · Judith Barrett
Plot A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Myrna Loy · Melvyn Douglas · Raymond Walburn · Lee Bowman
Plot Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the...
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The Lone Wolf Returns
1935 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Melvyn Douglas · Gail Patrick · Tala Birell · Henry Mollison
Plot Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the...
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Jackass Mail
1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Wallace Beery · Marjorie Main · J. Carrol Naish · Darryl Hickman
Plot Tiny Tucker delivers mail and attracted to her, Just Baggot becomes her new carrier. When he kills a man in a gunfight, the man's son joins him in the deliveries...
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Sky Giant
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Chester Morris · Harry Carey · Joan Fontaine · Paul Guilfoyle
Plot Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy....
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Faithful in My Fashion
1946 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Salkow
Cast Donna Reed · Tom Drake · Edward Everett Horton · Spring Byington
Plot Jeff returns from WWII, during which his girl has been promoted to department store executive and is now engaged to another man.
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Christmas in Connecticut (TV)
1992 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Arnold Schwarzenegger
Cast Dyan Cannon · Kris Kristofferson · Tony Curtis · Richard Roundtree
Plot Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who lost his cabin in a fire,...
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Tell No Tales
1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Melvyn Douglas · Louise Platt · Gene Lockhart · Douglass Dumbrille
Plot Michael Cassidy is the managing-editor of a small newspaper which is about to be closed down by its new owner, Matthew Cooper, who owns another newspaper in the city and...
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Adventure in Baltimore
1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Shirley Temple · Robert Young · John Agar · Albert Sharpe
Plot In 1905, teenaged Dinah Sheldon is an aspiring artist and budding suffragette. This is sufficiently scandalous, though her minister father takes a more lenient view. But her imaginative painting, showing...
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