Screenplay: Laird Doyle

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


The Prince and the Pauper

1937 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Claude Rains · Henry Stephenson · Barton MacLane

Plot England, 19th Century. On the same day two boys are born: the pauper Tom and prince Edvard. As a kid, Tom sneaks into the palace garden and meet the prince....

6.6

714 votes

6.6

714 votes

Dangerous

1935 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Bette Davis · Franchot Tone · Margaret Lindsay · Alison Skipworth

Plot Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his...

6.6

245 votes

6.6

245 votes

Front Page Woman

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Roscoe Karns · Wini Shaw

Plot Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

Finishing School

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Plot Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On...

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

Special Agent

1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Ricardo Cortez · Jack La Rue

Plot Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and...

6.2

58 votes

6.2

58 votes

Bordertown

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette

Plot Johnny Ramirez rises from bouncer to partner in Charlie Roark's border town casino. Charlie's wife Marie loves Johnny, but Johnny loves society woman Dale. Marie kills her husband, making it...

6.1

181 votes

6.1

181 votes

Jimmy the Gent

1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Allen Jenkins · Alan Dinehart

Plot Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect...

5.9

60 votes

5.9

60 votes

British Agent

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Leslie Howard · Kay Francis · William Gargan · Phillip Reed

Plot An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.

5.5

35 votes

5.5

35 votes

Hell Below

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Montgomery · Walter Huston · Madge Evans · Jimmy Durante

Plot On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers...

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Oil for the Lamps of China

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Pat O'Brien · Josephine Hutchinson · Jean Muir · Lyle Talbot

Plot An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests.

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Northwest Outpost

1947 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

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The Key

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Edna Best · Colin Clive · Hobart Cavanaugh

Plot British officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he...

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Singapore Woman

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Brenda Marshall · David Bruce · Virginia Field · Jerome Cowan

Plot This remake of Dangerous is set in Singapore and chronicles the exploits of a woman who believes herself cursed. To recover, she is taken to the rubber plantation of a...

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Stars Over Broadway

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Pat O'Brien · Jane Froman · James Melton · Jean Muir

Plot Al is a down on his luck promoter who is thinking of taking the final bow when he meets Jan, the singing porter. He sees something in Jan so he...

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Cain and Mabel

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Clark Gable · Marion Davies · Allen Jenkins · Roscoe Karns

Plot The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O'Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour...

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Hearts Divided

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marion Davies · Dick Powell · Charles Ruggles · Claude Rains

Plot Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his...

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Sing and Like It

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Pert Kelton · Edward Everett Horton · Nat Pendleton

Plot A gangster becomes enamored with a dowdy, amateur off-key singer and tries to force a producer to put her in his Broadway production.

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The Phantom Express

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Emory Johnson

Cast William Collier Jr. · Sally Blane · J. Farrell MacDonald · Hobart Bosworth

Plot A railway is threatened by mysterious wrecks, which turn out to be caused by criminals using a unique deception.

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Three Men on a Horse

1936 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Frank McHugh · Joan Blondell · Guy Kibbee · Carol Hughes

Plot Erwin Trowbridge is a meek salesman blessed with the ability to predict winners in horse races. Even though he only dopes them out on paper and never actually bets, his...

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