Screenplay: Grover Jones
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Grover Jones. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 45
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
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran
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
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Jackie Coogan · Junior Durkin · Mitzi Green · Lucien Littlefield
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...
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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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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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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,...
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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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