Screenplay: C. Graham Baker
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by C. Graham Baker. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Jean Dixon
Plot Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside"....
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
History is Made at Night
1937 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Charles Boyer · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Colin Clive
Plot Divorcee Irene Vail falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back... Film critic Andrew Sarris once said that HISTORY IS MADE...
7.0
312 votes
7.0
312 votes
Four Faces West
1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Joel McCrea · Frances Dee · Charles Bickford · Joseph Calleia
Plot Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun...
6.6
213 votes
6.6
213 votes
Ramrod
1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction André De Toth
Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Don DeFore · Donald Crisp
Plot A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her...
6.6
324 votes
6.6
324 votes
Tennessee's Partner
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Payne · Ronald Reagan · Rhonda Fleming · Coleen Gray
Plot A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from...
6.5
239 votes
6.5
239 votes
Stand-In
1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Blondell · Humphrey Bogart · Alan Mowbray
Plot A timid accountant (Leslie Howard) tries to save a floundering Hollywood studio with the help of a sexy stand-in (Joan Blondell) and a cynical but big-hearted producer (Humphrey Bogart).
6.0
420 votes
6.0
420 votes
Joy of Living
1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Irene Dunne · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Alice Brady · Guy Kibbee
Plot A young stage star is at the prime of her career. She lives an intensely hectic life, chock full of promotional appearances and shallow, greedy family members. But all this...
6.0
55 votes
6.0
55 votes
Eternally Yours
1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Loretta Young · David Niven · Hugh Herbert · Billie Burke
Plot Anita's (Loretta Young) life seems to be progressing nicely. She's engaged to Don Barnes (Broderick Crawford), a wealthy man that will give her all the stability and comfort a woman...
5.7
252 votes
5.7
252 votes
Swiss Family Robinson
1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Thomas Mitchell · Edna Best · Freddie Bartholomew · Terry Kilburn
Plot A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create an idyllic home for themselves, only to...
5.6
62 votes
5.6
62 votes
Frauds and Frenzies (S)
1918 · Movie · 21 min. · United States
Direction Larry Semon
Cast Larry Semon · Stan Laurel · Madge Kirby · William McCall
5.6
27 votes
5.6
27 votes
Tom Brown's School Days
1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Freddie Bartholomew · Jimmy Lydon · Josephine Hutchinson
Plot A conservative English boarding school is the setting for this glimpse into a boy's life during the Victorian era. Based on Thomas Hughes' novel of 1857, this moving film adaptation...
5.5
34 votes
5.5
34 votes
Danger Signal
1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Faye Emerson · Zachary Scott · Richard Erdman · Rosemary DeCamp
Plot A mysterious artist, Ronnie Mason, steals a dead woman's wedding ring and money and leaves a fake suicide note. Her husband, Thomas Turner, believed his wife might have been seeing...
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Melvyn Douglas · Alan Baxter · Pert Kelton
Plot A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to...
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The Singing Fool
1927 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Al Jolson · Betty Bronson · Josephine Dunn · Arthur Housman
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Eddie Cantor · Tony Martin · Roland Young · June Lang
Plot A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof...
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lowell Sherman
Cast Constance Cummings · Russ Columbo · Paul Kelly · Blossom Seeley
Plot Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the...
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Crime Doctor
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Warner Baxter · Margaret Lindsay · John Litel · Ray Collins
Plot Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a...
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The Personality Kid
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Alan Crosland
Cast Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell · Claire Dodd · Robert Gleckler
Plot Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until they have the money to build a better life. However, he has other...
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Every Night at Eight
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast George Raft · Alice Faye · Frances Langford · Patsy Kelly
Plot Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to 'lease' the dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singin, but they...
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Madeleine Carroll · George Brent · Arthur Treacher · Alan Baxter
Plot A beautiful socialite is acquitted of killing her husband only to be sued by her powerful mother-in-law for custody of her own son.
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