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

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...

Not rated

Not rated

The Singing Fool

1927 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated