Screenplay: Grover Jones

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


Trouble in Paradise

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Herbert Marshall · Miriam Hopkins · Kay Francis · Edward Everett Horton

Plot In Venice, Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a pickpocket pretending to be a countess, meets the famous thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), who is posing as a Baron, and they fall in...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone

Plot The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full...

6.7

456 votes

6.7

456 votes

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Betty Field · Harry Carey · Beulah Bondi

Plot Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred...

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

Souls at Sea

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · George Raft · Frances Dee · Henry Wilcoxon

Plot Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

6.6

391 votes

6.6

391 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Raymond Massey · Gene Lockhart · Ruth Gordon · Mary Howard

Plot Covers the period from Lincoln's early years as a Kentucky woodsman until his election to the Presidency in 1860. Included are his first love, his marriage, the Illinois law practice...

6.5

105 votes

6.5

105 votes

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

6.5

204 votes

6.5

204 votes

Dark Command

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers

Plot Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads...

6.4

420 votes

6.4

420 votes

The Milky Way

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale

Plot Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the...

6.3

649 votes

6.3

649 votes

Tom Sawyer

1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.1

47 votes

6.1

47 votes

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Gary Cooper · Fay Wray · Frances Fuller · Roscoe Karns

Plot Hugo and Biff were friends until they met Virginia. Biff could think of no one but Virginia, but she would never be happy with a big slow bully. So she...

5.8

56 votes

5.8

56 votes

One Million B.C.

1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Hal Roach

Cast Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Lon Chaney Jr. · Conrad Nagel

Plot A group of hikers are caught in a rainstorm and go into a cave for shelter. While in the cave they meet an archaeologist who is studying some of the...

5.6

121 votes

5.6

121 votes

The Iron Mule (S)

1925 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Grover Jones

Cast Al St. John · George Davis · Glen Cavender · Doris Deane

Plot In 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The...

5.3

65 votes

5.3

65 votes

Burning Up

1930 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Richard Arlen · Mary Brian · Francis McDonald · Sam Hardy

Plot Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

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You Belong to Me

1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · Helen Morgan · David Holt

Plot When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud...

Not rated

Not rated

Hot News

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Bebe Daniels · Neil Hamilton · Paul Lukas · Alfred Allen

Plot Hot News (1928) is a silent film comedy produced and distributed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, an amalgamation of Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. Clarence Badger directed and Bebe Daniels...

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Captain Caution

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Victor Mature · Louise Platt · Leo Carrillo · Bruce Cabot

Plot When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

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Not rated

Lucky Night

1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Myrna Loy · Robert Taylor · Joseph Allen · Henry O'Neill

Plot A wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening.

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Not rated

The Broken Wing

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Corrigan

Cast Lupe Velez · Leo Carrillo · Melvyn Douglas · George Barbier

Plot In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor,...

Not rated

Not rated

Huckleberry Finn

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jackie Coogan · Junior Durkin · Mitzi Green · Jackie Searl

Plot A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run...

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Not rated