Screenplay: Jack Jevne

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


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

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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