Screenplay: Jack Jevne
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jack Jevne. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 21
Laurel & Hardy: Way Out West
1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction James W. Horne
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sharon Lynn · James Finlayson
Synopsis Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold...
6.7
812 votes
6.7
812 votes
Autumn Leaves
1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Joan Crawford · Cliff Robertson · Vera Miles · Lorne Greene
Synopsis Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his...
6.7
422 votes
6.7
422 votes
Air Raid Wardens
1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jacqueline White
Synopsis Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
6.7
43 votes
6.7
43 votes
Our Relations
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Harry Lachman
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Alan Hale · Sidney Toler
Synopsis Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken...
6.7
306 votes
6.7
306 votes
School for Tramps
1955 · Movie · 99 min. · Mexico
Direction Rogelio A. González
Cast Pedro Infante · Miroslava · Blanca de Castejón · Oscar Pulido
6.7
178 votes
6.7
178 votes
Merrily We Live
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Constance Bennett · Brian Aherne · Alan Mowbray · Billie Burke
Synopsis A cynical writer (Brian Aherne), unwittingly infiltrates a loony house of philanthropists. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) runs a household that, due to her charitable nature, is as much a loony-bin as happy home. When he joins the menage, Aherne...
5.9
26 votes
5.9
26 votes
Topper
1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Constance Bennett · Cary Grant · Roland Young · Billie Burke
Synopsis Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend, bank president Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains...
5.8
235 votes
5.8
235 votes
Topper Takes a Trip
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Constance Bennett · Roland Young · Billie Burke · Alan Mowbray
Synopsis Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time...
5.7
23 votes
5.7
23 votes
I Cover the Waterfront
1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction James Cruze
Cast Ben Lyon · Claudette Colbert · Ernest Torrence · Hobart Cavanaugh
Synopsis Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands in the lovely form of Kirk's daughter, Julie, whom he...
5.4
81 votes
5.4
81 votes
Wyoming
1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Wallace Beery · Ann Rutherford · Leo Carrillo · Lee Bowman
Synopsis With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave. To show his gratitude to Dave, he steals his horse and gun, which causes...
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Barnacle Bill
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Wallace Beery · Marjorie Main · Leo Carrillo · Virginia Weidler
Synopsis A grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagiong livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.
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Kelly the Second
1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Gus Meins
Cast Patsy Kelly · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Charley Chase · Pert Kelton
Synopsis Lunch counter manager Molly Kelly gets into an altercation with truck driver Cecil Callahan that lands Callahan in jail. After seeing his fighting skills, though, Molly and her boss, Dr. Klum, decide to turn him into a prizefighter. Together they...
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The Clinging Vine
1926 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Paul Sloane
Cast Leatrice Joy · Tom Moore · Robert Edeson · Snitz Edwards
Synopsis A.B. is the brains and power behind the Bancroft paint business, but longs for a more feminine role. She overhears the boss's grandson (Jimmy) unflattering opinion of her lack of charms, she's hurt. Jimmy's grandmother takes her under her wing...
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Captain Fury
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Hal Roach
Cast Brian Aherne · Victor McLaglen · Paul Lukas · June Lang
Synopsis An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Wintertime
1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm
Cast Sonja Henie · Jack Oakie · Cesar Romero · Carole Landis
Synopsis Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's...
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Palooka
1934 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff
Cast Jimmy Durante · Lupe Velez · Stuart Erwin · Marjorie Rambeau
Synopsis Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
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Bored of Education (S)
1936 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer · George 'Spanky' McFarland · Rosina Lawrence · Eugene 'Porky' Lee
Synopsis Spanky and Alfalfa fake a tooth-ache to get out of school.
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Mister Cinderella
1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Jack Haley · Betty Furness · Arthur Treacher · Raymond Walburn
Synopsis Automotive mogul Peter Randolph needs backers for his diesel engine. Eccentric millionaire Aloysius P. Merriweather is invited to dinner, but he sends barber Joe Jenkins in his place.
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Court Plaster (S)
1924 · Movie · 12 min. · United States
Direction Gilbert Pratt
Cast Neal Burns · Molly Malone · James Duffy · George C. Pearce
Synopsis Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
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There Goes My Heart
1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Fredric March · Virginia Bruce · Patsy Kelly · Alan Mowbray
Synopsis Seeing her chance, 25-year-old heiress (Virginia Bruce) flees from her over-protective grandfather with none of her fortune in her purse. On the streets of New York, she is befriended by a shop girl (Patsy Kelly) . The shop girl takes...
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