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

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The Yankee Clipper

1927 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

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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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Not rated