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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