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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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."
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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...
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