Screenplay: William Hurlbut

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


The Bride of Frankenstein

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken...

7.2

12K votes

7.2

12K votes

Only Yesterday

1933 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Plot A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but...

7.1

63 votes

7.1

63 votes

Imitation of Life

1934 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Rochelle Hudson · Ned Sparks

Plot Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work...

7.1

642 votes

7.1

642 votes

Adam Had Four Sons

1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Warner Baxter · Susan Hayward · Fay Wray

Plot Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie...

5.9

108 votes

5.9

108 votes

Way Down East

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Rochelle Hudson · Henry Fonda · Slim Summerville · Edward Trevor

Plot A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has...

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One More River

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Diana Wynyard · Colin Clive · Frank Lawton · Stella Patrick Campbell

Plot A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man aboard a ship.

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Orchids to You

1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast John Boles · Jean Muir · Charles Butterworth · Ruthelma Stevens

Plot An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

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La voluntad del muerto

1930 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Enrique Tovar Ávalos · George Melford

Cast Antonio Moreno · Lupita Tovar · Andrés de Segurola · Roberto E. Guzmán

Plot Is a remake of the 1927 silent film The Cat and the Canary as well as the 1930 lost film The Cat Creeps. It was a common practice during the...

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King of Burlesque

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Warner Baxter · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · Mona Barrie

Plot Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.

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Secret of the Blue Room

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Lionel Atwill · Gloria Stuart · Paul Lukas · Edward Arnold

Plot Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to...

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There's Always Tomorrow

1934 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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Make a Wish

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Bobby Breen · Basil Rathbone · Marion Claire · Henry Armetta

Plot While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing...

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Ladies Must Love

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast June Knight · Neil Hamilton · Sally O'Neil · Dorothy Burgess

Plot Three Broadway gold-diggers sign a contract to share their ill-gotten gains, and convince their more morally upstanding roommate, Jeannie, into signing it as well. When she falls for a Park...

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Madame Spy

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Fay Wray · Nils Asther · Edward Arnold · John Miljan

Plot Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak,...

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The Daring Young Man

1935 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

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The Cat Creeps

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Rupert Julian · John Willard

Cast Helen Twelvetrees · Raymond Hackett · Neil Hamilton · Lilyan Tashman

Plot Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.

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Rainbow on the River

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Bobby Breen · May Robson · Charles Butterworth · Alan Mowbray

Plot A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

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