Screenplay: George Bricker

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


Roadblock

1951 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Harold Daniels

Cast Charles McGraw · Joan Dixon · Lowell Gilmore · Louis Jean Heydt

Plot An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her...

6.6

84 votes

6.6

84 votes

Loophole

1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Barry Sullivan · Dorothy Malone · Charles McGraw · Don Haggerty

Plot The film tells the story of a bank teller Mike Donovan (Sullivan) who failed to report a $49,000 shortage from his drawer. He's accused of theft and quickly fired from...

6.3

23 votes

6.3

23 votes

The Dancing Masters

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Trudy Marshall · Robert Bailey

Plot Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Cry Vengeance

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Mark Stevens

Cast Mark Stevens · Martha Hyer · Skip Homeier · Joan Vohs

Plot Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he himself scarred, framed and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding...

6.2

35 votes

6.2

35 votes

King of the Underworld

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Kay Francis · James Stephenson · John Eldredge

Plot Niles and Carol Nelson are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer...

6.1

137 votes

6.1

137 votes

House of Horrors

1946 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Rondo Hatton · Robert Lowery · Virginia Grey · Bill Goodwin

Plot Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for...

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Man in the Dark

1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Audrey Totter · Ted de Corsia · Horace McMahon

Plot A thug is convicted and undergoes experimental brain surgery to remove the criminal element in his brain. The operation wipes out all memories of his past life, including where he...

5.7

39 votes

5.7

39 votes

Pillow of Death

1945 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Wallace Fox

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Brenda Joyce · J. Edward Bromberg · Rosalind Ivan

Plot Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder,...

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

The Whip Hand

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction William Cameron Menzies

Cast Carla Balenda · Elliott Reid · Edgar Barrier · Raymond Burr

Plot Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake, near a ghost-town, where all the fish have mysteriously died. None of the...

5.4

27 votes

5.4

27 votes

She-Wolf of London

1946 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Don Porter · June Lockhart · Sara Haden · Jan Wiley

Plot A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

5.2

144 votes

5.2

144 votes

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Peter Lorre · Jean Hersholt · Amanda Duff · Warren Hymer

Plot Puerto Rico has become the back door by which a criminal syndicate smuggles inexpensive contraband diamonds from South America into the United States, dramatically driving down the price of legitimate...

5.2

25 votes

5.2

25 votes

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Ray Nazarro

Cast Dan Duryea · Gale Storm · Dick Foran · Gloria Henry

Plot The four Jennings brothers are Lawyers. When Al has a brother murdered, he goes after the murderer. He outdraws him but a witness says it was murder. Escaping the Sheriff...

5.1

30 votes

5.1

30 votes

The Devil Bat

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bela Lugosi · Suzanne Kaaren · Dave O'Brien · Guy Usher

Plot Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically...

5.1

179 votes

5.1

179 votes

The Brute Man

1946 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Rondo Hatton · Tom Neal · Jan Wiley · Jane Adams

Plot A misterious individual known as The Creeper scares the city by murdering different persons without any connection between them.

4.7

30 votes

4.7

30 votes

Hold That Woman!

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast James Dunn · Frances Gifford · George Douglas · Rita La Roy

Plot A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they...

Not rated

Not rated

The Mark of the Whistler

1944 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Richard Dix · Janis Carter · Porter Hall · Paul Guilfoyle

Plot A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old...

Not rated

Not rated

Love Is on the Air

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Ronald Reagan · June Travis · Eddie Acuff · Ben Welden

Plot Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E....

Not rated

Not rated

Tangier Incident

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast George Brent · Mari Aldon · Dorothy Patrick · Bert Freed

Plot Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atormic-screntists who are there to pool their...

Not rated

Not rated

So's Your Aunt Emma!

1942 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Roger Pryor · Warren Hymer · Douglas Fowley

Plot A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as is falsely accused of being notorious murderer "Ma Parker."

Not rated

Not rated

Mary Ryan, Detective

1949 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Abby Berlin

Cast Marsha Hunt · John Litel · June Vincent · Harry Shannon

Plot Police detective Mary Ryan is given an assignment to break up a gang of jewel thieves and fences. She, using an alias as a convict, is placed in the cell...

Not rated

Not rated