Screenplay: Scott Darling
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Scott Darling. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Big Noise
1944 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Doris Merrick · Arthur Space
Plot Although they are only janitors at a detective agency, the boys pass themselves off as sleuths and are engaged to guard an inventor delivering a new bomb. They outwit enemy...
6.3
26 votes
6.3
26 votes
Jitterbugs
1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Vivian Blaine · Robert Bailey
Plot The boys team up with a likable con man to help a pretty singer's mother who's been taken in by swindlers.
6.3
63 votes
6.3
63 votes
The Dancing Masters
1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Trudy Marshall · Robert Bailey
Plot Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.
6.2
28 votes
6.2
28 votes
Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Warner Oland · Boris Karloff · Keye Luke · William Demarest
Plot Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow...
6.2
36 votes
6.2
36 votes
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Lionel Atwill · Kaaren Verne
Plot The secret weapon is a new bombsight which could hasten the outcome of World War II, and both the Allies and the Nazis are in a desperate race to secure...
6.0
904 votes
6.0
904 votes
The Bullfighters
1945 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Margo Woode · Richard Lane
Plot The boys are detectives working in Mexico. Laurel happens to resemble a famous matador who has disappeared, and he is enlisted to replace him in the bullring.
5.8
73 votes
5.8
73 votes
Weird Woman
1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Le Borg
Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Anne Gwynne · Evelyn Ankers · Ralph Morgan
Plot While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love with marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who...
5.7
44 votes
5.7
44 votes
The Fatal Hour
1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · Charles Trowbridge
Plot When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San...
5.6
26 votes
5.6
26 votes
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast Boris Karloff · Grant Withers · Dorothy Tree · Craig Reynolds
Plot Detective tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Moon."
5.5
27 votes
5.5
27 votes
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Lon Chaney Jr. · Ralph Bellamy · Lionel Atwill
Plot The villagers finally decide to free themselves of the Frankenstein menace and blow up Castle Frankenstein, but this succeeds in reviving the monster. Ygor takes the monster to the village...
5.5
292 votes
5.5
292 votes
Cobra Woman
1944 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Sabu · Edgar Barrier
Plot Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnaped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the...
5.4
261 votes
5.4
261 votes
Desert Pursuit
1952 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction George Blair
Cast Wayne Morris · Virginia Grey · George Tobias · Anthony Caruso
Plot In the mid-late 1800's camels were imported to various regions of the American southwestern deserts as pack animals and natives from the middle eastern countries came along as drivers and...
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Louisiana
1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Jimmie Davis · Margaret Lindsay · John Gallaudet · Freddie Stewart
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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Constance Moore · Helen Parrish · Lewis Howard
Plot Tod Lowell (Dennis O'Keefe)),the quarterback of the Southern State football team has been dating Betty Gilbert (Constance Moore), a nightclub singer. But his mother, Mrs. Henry Lowell objects to her...
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Trent's Last Case
1929 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Raymond Griffith · Marceline Day · Raymond Hatton · Donald Crisp
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The Chinese Ring (Charlie Chan in the Chinese Ring)
1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Roland Winters · Warren Douglas · Mantan Moreland · Louise Currie
Plot Princess Mei Ling pays a visit to the Chan residence, where upon being admitted by man-of-all-work Birmingham Brown she refuses to give her name, but hands Birmingham her ring to...
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The Great Impersonation
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Evelyn Ankers · Aubrey Mather · Edward Norris
Plot An unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his...
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Topsy and Eva
1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Del Lord · D.W. Griffith · Lois Weber
Cast Rosetta Duncan · Vivian Duncan · Gibson Gowland · Noble Johnson
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The Hazards of Helen (TV Series)
1914 · Series · 12 min. · United States
Direction Robert G. Vignola · J.P. McGowan · J. Gunnis Davis · Helen Holmes
Cast Helen Holmes · J.P. McGowan · Helen Gibson · Anna Q. Nilsson
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Too Many Winners
1947 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Hugh Beaumont · Trudy Marshall · Ralph Dunn · Claire Carleton
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