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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