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
Direction Edward Sloman
Cast Frank Morgan · Binnie Barnes · Lois Wilson · Dick Winslow
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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
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast James Dunn · Mae Clarke · Neil Hamilton · Sidney Toler
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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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