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
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Helen Kane · Margaret Breen · Victor Moore
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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
Direction Josef Berne
Cast Frederick Brady · Mary Elliott · Eric Blore · Steven Geray
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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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