Screenplay: Darryl F. Zanuck

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Darryl F. Zanuck. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Baby Face

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Donald Cook · Alphonse Ethier

Plot Lily Powers (Baby Face) has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town. His death gives her the chance to get to...

7.0

410 votes

7.0

410 votes

'G' Men

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · Margaret Lindsay · Ann Dvorak · Robert Armstrong

Plot It's the early days of the F.B.I. - federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they've got limited powers - they don't carry weapons and have to get...

6.8

588 votes

6.8

588 votes

Thunder Birds

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gene Tierney · Preston Foster · John Sutton · Jack Holt

Plot Prestiged pilot takes young amateur under his wing, soon discovering he's falling head over heels for the woman he loves.

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

Noah's Ark

1928 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz · Darryl F. Zanuck

Cast George O'Brien · Paul McAllister · Myrna Loy · Dolores Costello

Plot The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

China Girl

1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gene Tierney · George Montgomery · Lynn Bari · Victor McLaglen

Plot China Girl charts the exploits of two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams (George Montgomery), stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he...

5.7

124 votes

5.7

124 votes

The Purple Heart

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Dana Andrews · Richard Conte · Farley Granger · Kevin O'Shea

Plot 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...

5.7

89 votes

5.7

89 votes

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Betty Grable · John Sutton · Reginald Gardiner

Plot Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. He gets into trouble by flying a new fighter directly to Canada instead of...

5.4

123 votes

5.4

123 votes

The Dark Horse

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Warren William · Bette Davis · Guy Kibbee · Vivienne Osborne

Plot Zachary Hicks is nominated at the Progressive party's convention even though he has little chance of winning the governorship. Kay suggests the party bosses hire Hal Blake (whom she loves)...

5.2

33 votes

5.2

33 votes

Find Your Man

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Malcolm St. Clair

Cast June Marlowe · Eric St. Clair · Charles Hill Mailes · Rin Tin Tin

Plot Rin Tin Tin witnesses a murder for which his master is blamed. Rinty knows who committed the crime, and sets out to track down the killer and clear his master's...

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The Life of the Party

1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

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Folies Bergère de Paris

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Merle Oberon · Ann Sothern · Eric Blore

Plot One night socialite banker Baron Cassini attends the stage show of Eugene Charlier, who resembles him and imitates him in his act. The Baron is attracted to Charlier's jealous stage...

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Footloose Widows

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The First Auto

1927 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Russell Simpson · Frank Campeau · Gibson Gowland · Anders Randolf

Plot Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of...

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Maybe It's Love

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Joan Bennett · Joe E. Brown · James Hall · Laura Lee

Plot Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan...

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Tenderloin

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Dolores Costello · Conrad Nagel · Mitchell Lewis · Dan Wolheim

Plot Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the...

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This Is My Affair

1937 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Robert Taylor · Barbara Stanwyck · Victor McLaglen · Brian Donlevy

Plot At Arlington National Military Cemetery, children ask a nun why Lieutenant Richard L. Perry, whose grave they pass, is not listed in the guidebook. She replies that no doubt he...

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The Caveman

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Matt Moore · Marie Prevost · John Patrick · Myrna Loy

Plot A bored society girl cuts a $100 bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it to call her at her apartment, writes the address on...

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Ham and Eggs at the Front

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Seven Sinners

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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