Screenplay: Jerome Cady

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerome Cady. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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 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

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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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