Screenplay: John Grant

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


The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

1947 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marjorie Main · Audrey Young

Plot Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while en route to California. During the stopover, a notorious...

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Mexican Hayride

1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Virginia Grey · Luba Malina

Plot Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

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Who Done It?

1942 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Patric Knowles · William Gargan

Plot Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

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Here Come the Co-eds

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Peggy Ryan · Martha O'Driscoll

Plot Slats and Oliver follow Slat’s sister Molly to Bixby College, where they are hired as caretakers. The chairman of the college threatens to foreclose on a mortgage if the school...

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It Ain't Hay

1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Grace McDonald · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Adaptation of the Damon Runyon story 'Princess O'Hara', in which the horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.

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Lost in a Harem

1944 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marilyn Maxwell · John Conte

Plot Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha, help disenfranchised young Prince Ramo regain his throne from his devious Uncle...

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Buck Privates Come Home

1947 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Tom Brown · Nat Pendleton

Plot Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates...

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Hit the Ice

1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Ginny Simms · Patric Knowles

Plot Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott...

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Pardon My Sarong

1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Virginia Bruce · Robert Paige

Plot A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that...

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In Society

1944 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marion Hutton · Kirby Grant

Plot Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into...

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Ride 'Em Cowboy

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Dick Foran · Anne Gwynne

Plot Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...

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