Screenplay: Garrett Fort
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Garrett Fort. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Frankenstein
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles
Plot Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.
7.5
18K votes
7.5
18K votes
The Devil-Doll
1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Frank Lawton · Robert Greig
Plot An escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Dracula
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye
Plot After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in...
7.1
7K votes
7.1
7K votes
The Mark of Zorro
1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard
Plot In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Lost Patrol
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Victor McLaglen · Boris Karloff · Wallace Ford · Reginald Denny
Plot A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Applause
1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Helen Morgan · Joan Peers · Fuller Mellish Jr. · Jack Cameron
Plot This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's...
6.6
159 votes
6.6
159 votes
Ladies in Retirement
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Ida Lupino · Louis Hayward · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester
Plot The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
6.4
145 votes
6.4
145 votes
Among the Living
1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Albert Dekker · Susan Hayward · Frances Farmer · Harry Carey
Plot Paul Raden (Albert Dekker), hopelessly insane son of Maxim Raden, hated owner of the Radentown mills, is in a strait jacket in a secret room in the family mansion, while...
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
The Letter
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Jean de Limur
Cast Jeanne Eagels · O.P. Heggie · Reginald Owen · Herbert Marshall
Plot Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides...
5.8
21 votes
5.8
21 votes
Spanish Dracula
1931 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction George Melford · Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Cast Carlos Villarías · Lupita Tovar · Barry Norton · Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Plot Dracula (1931) is a Spanish-language version of the more famous Tod Browning-directed Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. In the early days of sound, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce...
5.8
579 votes
5.8
579 votes
Blood on the Sun
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast James Cagney · Sylvia Sidney · Wallace Ford · Rosemary DeCamp
Plot Cagney is a crusading newspaper editor in 1930s Japan who's come into possession of the "Tanaka Plan" for world domination. Amidst political intrigue and crossed loyalties, Cagney must now find...
5.7
546 votes
5.7
546 votes
Dracula's Daughter
1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Lambert Hillyer
Cast Otto Kruger · Gloria Holden · Marguerite Churchill · Edward Van Sloan
Plot Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.
5.7
304 votes
5.7
304 votes
Lady for a Night
1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Joan Blondell · John Wayne · Ray Middleton · Philip Merivale
Plot Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life,...
5.4
46 votes
5.4
46 votes
Before Dawn
1933 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Wilson · Warner Oland · Dudley Digges
Plot Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lay dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to...
5.1
35 votes
5.1
35 votes
Jalna
1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Kay Johnson · Ian Hunter · C. Aubrey Smith · Nigel Bruce
Plot A young bride struggles to cope with the tangled relationships on her husband's Canadian estate.
5.0
21 votes
5.0
21 votes
Stingaree
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Irene Dunne · Richard Dix · Mary Boland · Conway Tearle
Plot In 1874, in the Australian outback, police inspector Radford chats with wealthy sheepman Hugh Clarkson and his wife about Stingaree, the country's prized outlaw. Everyone, including Hilda Bouverie, the Clarkson's...
4.9
21 votes
4.9
21 votes
The Midnight Girl
1925 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Wilfred Noy
Cast Lila Lee · Gareth Hughes · Dolores Cassinelli · Charlotte Walker
Plot Wealthy arts impresario Nicholas Harmon tires of his aging operatic star Nina, who is also his lover. Harmon's son Don dislikes the way Nina disparages his late mother, and rejects...
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Naughty Baby
1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Alice White · Jack Mulhall · Thelma Todd · Doris Dawson
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The Yankee Clipper
1927 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Rupert Julian
Cast William Boyd · Elinor Fair · Frank Coghlan Jr. · John Miljan
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The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Nils Asther · Helen Walker · Reinhold Schünzel · Paul Cavanagh
Plot A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered...
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