Screenplay: Jack Moffitt

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


The Living Desert

1953 · Documentary · 69 min. · United States

Direction James Algar

Plot Documentary of the live of flora and fauna in a desert in the US.

6.9

85 votes

6.9

85 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

Passage to Marseille

1944 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Claude Rains · Michèle Morgan · Philip Dorn

Plot As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder...

6.5

723 votes

6.5

723 votes

You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Plot An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in...

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

The Conspirators

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre

Plot Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's...

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

Central Airport

1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman · Alfred E. Green

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Sally Eilers · Tom Brown · Grant Mitchell

Plot Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Night Key

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Corrigan

Cast Boris Karloff · Warren Hull · Jean Rogers · Alan Baxter

Plot Boris Karloff is an inventor that creates a robbery alarm system. When someone saboteurs his project, he will allie with a thief to have his payback.

5.6

34 votes

5.6

34 votes

Melody Ranch

1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Gene Autry · Jimmy Durante · Ann Miller · Barton MacLane

Plot With a longer-than-usual running time on original release and booked and sold to the exhibitors as a "Gene Autry Special", which Republic would do once a year from 1939-1943 in...

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Rhythm on the Range

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Bing Crosby · Frances Farmer · Bob Burns · Martha Raye

Plot Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm...

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Our Leading Citizen

1939 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Bob Burns · Susan Hayward · Joseph Allen · Elizabeth Patterson

Plot Lem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never...

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Tropic Holiday

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Theodore Reed

Cast Bob Burns · Ray Milland · Dorothy Lamour · Martha Raye

Plot A Hollywood screenwriter looking for inspiration for his next film goes to Mexico, where he runs into a beautiful Mexican girl who sets her sights on him.

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The Story of Will Rogers

1952 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Will Rogers Jr. · Jane Wyman · Carl Benton Reid · Eve Miller

Plot Oklahoma lad grows up to become America's favorite humorist.

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St. Louis Blues

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Lloyd Nolan · Tito Guízar · Jerome Cowan

Plot A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans...

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Exclusive

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Double or Nothing

1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Theodore Reed

Cast Bing Crosby · Martha Raye · Andy Devine · Mary Carlisle

Plot A dying millionaire instructs his lawyer to drop four purses on the streets of New York City. Four honest people find them and return them to the lawyer. Under the...

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Murder, He Says

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Fred MacMurray · Helen Walker · Marjorie Main · Jean Heather

Plot Trotter pollster Pete Marshall is trying to find a missing coworker. In a rural town he stumbles onto the roughian Fleagle family. Bert and Mert would just as soon "splatter"...

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Mountain Music

1937 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Bob Burns · Martha Raye · John Howard · Terry Walker

Plot The plot, rooted in Burns' comic hillbilly persona from radio, revolves around a longstanding feud between two country families of Monotony, Arkansas, and an amnesia-prone groom.

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Ride a Crooked Mile

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Murder with Pictures

1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Lew Ayres · Gail Patrick · Paul Kelly · Benny Baker

Plot Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily, the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres. He senses that Patrick is innocent and vows to...

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The African Lion

1955 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Algar

Cast Winston Hibler

Plot Out of the heart of Africa now comes natures greatest drama... Three years of waiting, watching, stalking... in the shadow of the brooding Kilimanjaro, and on the wide expanses of...

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