Screenplay: Jerome Cady
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerome Cady. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 26
Call Northside 777
1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker
Synopsis In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty....
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Cry Danger
1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Robert Parrish
Cast Dick Powell · Rhonda Fleming · Richard Erdman · William Conrad
Synopsis An innocent man just released from prison searches for the people who framed him and for the stashed $100,000 bankroll. Along the way he meets the wife of a fellow con still on the inside who was framed for the...
6.6
303 votes
6.6
303 votes
Forever Amber
1947 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Linda Darnell · Cornel Wilde · Richard Greene · George Sanders
Synopsis Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and...
6.6
374 votes
6.6
374 votes
Five Came Back
1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Chester Morris · Lucille Ball · Wendy Barrie · John Carradine
Synopsis After their airplane crashes in the South American jungle, the passengers and crew must survive until the repairs can be made. Apart from the two pilots there is an elderly couple, a gangster traveling with a young boy, a bounty...
6.5
90 votes
6.5
90 votes
Wing and a Prayer
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Don Ameche · Dana Andrews · William Eythe · Charles Bickford
Synopsis An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at...
6.3
83 votes
6.3
83 votes
Guadalcanal Diary
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Preston Foster · Lloyd Nolan · William Bendix · Richard Conte
Synopsis Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
6.0
295 votes
6.0
295 votes
Full Confession
1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Victor McLaglen · Sally Eilers · Joseph Calleia · Barry Fitzgerald
Synopsis A Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair.
5.7
32 votes
5.7
32 votes
The Purple Heart
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Dana Andrews · Richard Conte · Farley Granger · Kevin O'Shea
Synopsis Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story!
5.7
89 votes
5.7
89 votes
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast Peter Lorre · Keye Luke · Dick Baldwin · Lynn Bari
Synopsis In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison that killed him rather than the violence of the bout. Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre), a detective who...
5.5
21 votes
5.5
21 votes
The Saint in Palm Springs
1941 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Jack B. Hively
Cast George Sanders · Wendy Barrie · Paul Guilfoyle · Jonathan Hale
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
The Marines Fly High
1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff · George Nichols Jr.
Cast Richard Dix · Chester Morris · Lucille Ball · Steffi Duna
Synopsis Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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Time Out for Murder
1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Gloria Stuart · Michael Whalen · Chick Chandler · Douglas Fowley
Synopsis A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
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One Wild Night
1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Eugene Forde
Cast June Lang · Dick Baldwin · Lyle Talbot · J. Edward Bromberg
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Preston Foster · Victor McLaglen · Lois Andrews · Kent Taylor
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Winner Take All
1939 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Otto Brower
Cast Tony Martin · Gloria Stuart · Henry Armetta · Slim Summerville
Synopsis When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
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Sued for Libel
1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Goodwins
Cast Kent Taylor · Linda Hayes · Lilian Bond · Morgan Conway
Synopsis The trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster,arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, owned by the Evening Bulletin, Steve Lonegan waits for a flash from Smiley...
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The Great Hospital Mystery
1937 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast Jane Darwell · Sig Ruman · Sally Blane · Thomas Beck
Synopsis When gangsters threaten the life of the brother of a nurse, she and her superintendent make it look as if he died while a hospital patient.
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Laddie
1940 · Movie · United States
Direction Jack B. Hively
Cast Tim Holt · Virginia Gilmore · Joan Carroll · Spring Byington
Synopsis Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Goodwins
Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · ZaSu Pitts
Synopsis The Lindsay's are on a ship to Hawaii for their delayed second honeymoon. Unknown to Carmelita, Dennis is using the trip to secure a contract with Mr. Baldwin. The Baldwins are social climbers that will do business with Lindsay if...
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Thunder in the Valley
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Lon McCallister · Peggy Ann Garner · Edmund Gwenn · Reginald Owen
Synopsis A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). But David, with the help of a neighbor's daughter, Maggie...
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