Screenplay: Sidney Sutherland

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sidney Sutherland. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Ladies They Talk About

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Howard Bretherton · William Keighley

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Preston Foster · Lyle Talbot · Dorothy Burgess

Plot Gun moll Nan Taylor, caught after an otherwise successful bank robbery, falls for radio crusader David Slade and confides her guilt to him. Much to her surprise, he turns her...

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Divorce

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Kay Francis · Bruce Cabot · Helen Mack · Jerome Cowan

Plot A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.

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I've Got Your Number

1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joan Blondell · Pat O'Brien · Allen Jenkins · Glenda Farrell

Plot The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently...

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Hi, Nellie!

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Glenda Farrell · Ned Sparks · Robert Barrat

Plot Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy...

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Bowery Boy

1940 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Morgan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Louise Campbell · Jimmy Lydon · Helen Vinson

Plot Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital,...

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The Leavenworth Case

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins

Cast Donald Cook · Jean Rouverol · Norman Foster · Erin O'Brien-Moore

Plot A remarkable monkey may hold the key to the mysterious murder of a wealthy philanthropist.

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Allotment Wives

1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Kay Francis · Paul Kelly · Otto Kruger · Gertrude Michael

Plot Sheila Seymour, a sleek and stylish society gal who in reality is the head of a noxious crime syndicate that preys mercilessly on returning World War II servicemen. They zero...

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Adventure's End

1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast John Wayne · Diana Gibson · Montagu Love · Moroni Olsen

Plot Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.

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The Match King

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Howard Bretherton · William Keighley

Cast Warren William · Lili Damita · Glenda Farrell · Juliette Compton

Plot Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert...

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Friends of Mr. Sweeney

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Charles Ruggles · Ann Dvorak · Eugene Pallette · Robert Barrat

Plot After 20 years of writing for The Balance, Asaph has become a conservative shadow of his former self. When his ex-college chum visits Asaph, he cannot believe the change. So...

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I Sell Anything

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Pat O'Brien · Ann Dvorak · Claire Dodd · Roscoe Karns

Plot Fast-talking auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is content with his Second Avenue existence selling pawned goods for highly inflated prices. One day, a Fifth Avenue society lady picks up a priceless...

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Wife Wanted

1946 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Kay Francis · Paul Cavanagh · Robert Shayne · Veda Ann Borg

Plot Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs...

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Sitting on the Moon

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Staub

Cast Roger Pryo · Grace Bradley · William Newell · Pert Kelton

Plot Songwriter Danny (Pryor) believes that the only way to jump-start fading movie star Polly's (Bradley) career is to end his partnership with lyricist Mike (Newell). Polly's friend Mattie (Kelton) manages...

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