Screenplay: Karl Brown

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


The Man They Could Not Hang

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

6.4

88 votes

6.4

88 votes

The Man with Nine Lives

1940 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Roger Pryo · Jo Ann Sayers · Stanley Brown

Plot Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the...

6.1

41 votes

6.1

41 votes

Before I Hang

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Evelyn Keyes · Bruce Bennett · Edward Van Sloan

Plot A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon,...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

Fast Workers

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast John Gilbert · Robert Armstrong · Mae Clarke · Muriel Kirkland

Plot Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is...

5.6

59 votes

5.6

59 votes

The Ape Man

1943 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Bela Lugosi · Louise Currie · Wallace Ford · Minerva Urecal

Plot A grade-Z picture about a scientist (Lugosi) attempting ot harness the physical power of apes for humankind.

4.8

43 votes

4.8

43 votes

Hitler – Dead or Alive

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Ward Bond · Dorothy Tree · Warren Hymer · Paul Fix

Plot The plot of this film was in fact inspired by true events. During the early stages of the Second World War a prominent American businessman offered one million dollars reward...

4.2

51 votes

4.2

51 votes

Girl from Havana

1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Claire Carleton · Victor Jory · Steffi Duna

Plot Woody Davis and are Tex Moore ambitious and enterprising friends who decide to become South American oil drillers in hope of becoming wealthy. Woody and Tex set up a site,...

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Stolen Sweets

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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A Woman Is the Judge

1939 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Frieda Inescort · Otto Kruger · Rochelle Hudson · Mayo Methot

Plot A famous woman jurist at the peak of her career resigns the bench to defend her daughter against a murder charge.

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Gangs of Chicago

1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Barton MacLane · Lola Lane · Ray Middleton

Plot A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

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Phantom Killer

1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · John Hamilton · Warren Hymer

Plot Well-known philanthropist and deaf John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him...

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My Son Is Guilty

1939 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bruce Cabot · Julie Bishop · Harry Carey · Glenn Ford

Plot Tim Kerry, a cop on the beat in Hell's Kitchen, welcomes his grown son Ritzy home after a two-year prison term. Ritzy's former friends and his ex-girl Julia join with...

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The Curtain Falls

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Sally Eilers · Donald Woods · Eduardo Ciannelli · Victor Kilian

Plot A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

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The Calling of Dan Matthews

1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Richard Arlen · Charlotte Wynters · Douglass Dumbrille · Mary Kornman

Plot Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with...

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City Park

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Sally Blane · Henry B. Walthall · Matty Kemp · Hale Hamilton

Plot The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support...

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Stark Love

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Karl Brown

Cast Helen Mundy · Reb Grogan · Silas Miracle

Plot Stark Love (1927) is a feature film directed by Karl Brown and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a maverick production in both design and concept, is a beautifully...

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Mr. District Attorney

1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William Morgan

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Florence Rice · Peter Lorre · Stanley Ridges

Plot Fresh out of Hahvahd Law, sweet-faced college boy P. Cadwallader Jones (O'Keefe) joins the district attorney's office and is soon faced with solving the crime of the decade: the theft...

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Fire Alarm

1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Karl Brown

Cast Johnny Mack Brown · George Cooper · Noel Francis · Marjorie Beebe

Plot Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the apartment building next door...

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