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

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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

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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

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Too Many Winners

1947 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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