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
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Nelson Eddy · Ilona Massey · Joseph Schildkraut · Elsa Lanchester
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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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