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
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Boris Karloff · Lorna Gray · Robert Wilcox · Roger Pryo
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
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Sally Blane · Charles Starrett · Jameson Thomas · Claude King
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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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Death Valley Days (TV Series)
1952 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Stuart McGowan · Harmon Jones · Jack B. Hively · Tay Garnett
Cast Stanley Andrews · Robert Taylor · Ronald Reagan · Dale Robertson
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The Curtain Falls
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Henrietta Crosman · Dorothy Lee · William Bakewell · Holmes Herbert
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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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