Screenplay: Paul Girard Smith

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Paul Girard Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Battling Butler

1926 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Sally O'Neil · Walter James · Budd Fine

Plot Alfred's father wants him to make of a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Feet First

1930 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast Harold Lloyd · Barbara Kent · Robert McWade · Lillian Leighton

Plot Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the...

7.2

647 votes

7.2

647 votes

Welcome Danger

1929 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Bruckman · Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Harold Lloyd · Barbara Kent · Noah Young · Charles Middleton

Plot Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.

6.6

67 votes

6.6

67 votes

The Wind in the Willows (The Adventures of Mr. Toad)

1949 · Movie · 35 min. · United States

Direction James Algar · Jack Kinney

Plot Disney "Mini-Classic" version of the tale. First released as a double-feature: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

5.5

651 votes

5.5

651 votes

In Old Arizona

1928 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings · Raoul Walsh

Cast Warner Baxter · Edmund Lowe · Dorothy Burgess · Tom Smith

Plot Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot...

5.5

58 votes

5.5

58 votes

It's a Joke, Son!

1947 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Kenny Delmar · Una Merkel · June Lockhart · Kenneth Farrell

Plot When the Daughters of Dixie nominate a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run by Northerners fears its candidate will be defeated, and chooses her husband as a...

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Steel Against the Sky

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Alexis Smith · Craig Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Plot Rough-hewn Rocky Evans has two great loves--his job building bridges and beautiful Helen Powers, his boss' daughter. But it's Rocky's shiftless brother Chuck who wins Helen's affections. Chuck even takes...

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Thrill of a Lifetime

1937 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast James V. Kern · Judy Canova · Ben Blue · Eleanore Whitney

Plot "Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued...

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Show Business

1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Eddie Cantor · George Murphy · Joan Davis · Nancy Kelly

Plot A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

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One Hour Late

1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Joe Morrison · Helen Twelvetrees · Conrad Nagel · Arline Judge

Plot When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and...

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Just Around the Corner

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Shirley Temple · Joan Davis · Charles Farrell · Amanda Duff

Plot The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale (Temple) and her architect father (Farrell) after he is forced by circumstances to accept a job as janitor.

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Sing Another Chorus

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Johnny Downs · Jane Frazee · Mischa Auer · George Barbier

Plot An idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his...

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Son of a Sailor

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joe E. Brown · Jean Muir · Frank McHugh · Thelma Todd

Plot Sailor Handsome from the aircraft carrier Saratoga meets in San Francisco Helen, a relative of his admiral. Invited at his home he meets a friend from his ship who has...

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Hold 'Em Yale

1935 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Patricia Ellis · Cesar Romero · Buster Crabbe · William Frawley

Plot A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's...

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La Conga Nights

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Hugh Herbert · Dennis O'Keefe · Constance Moore · Ferike Boros

Plot Henry I. Dibble, Jr. (Hugh Herbert)is a dizzy millionaire playboy who loves rhumba music. Thorns in his side are his four maiden sisters Faith (Hugh Herbert), Hope (Hugh Herbert), Charity...

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Here We Go Again

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Jim Jordan · Marian Jordan · Edgar Bergen · Charlie McCarthy

Plot It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After...

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Heads Up

1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

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You're in the Army Now

1941 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Jimmy Durante · Phil Silvers · Jane Wyman · Regis Toomey

Plot Vacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeter" Smith and "Breezy" Jones are accidentally inducted into the army, and "Jeeter", who can sell anything, immediately begins to try and convince, Colonel Dobson, their cavalry...

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Heavenly Music (S)

1943 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

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Rumba

1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Margo · Lynne Overman

Plot A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

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