Screenplay: Joseph Jackson

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


One Way Passage

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Aline MacMahon · Frank McHugh

Plot Suave Dan Hardesty, a convicted murderer, is apprehended by Steve Burke, a police detective, in Hong Kong and accompanied on the SS Maloa headed for San Francisco. On board, Dan...

6.8

126 votes

6.8

126 votes

Safe in Hell

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Donald Cook · Ralf Harolde · John Wray

Plot After killing an ex-boyfriend in New Orleans, a prostitute flees to a Caribbean island. There the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her, unaware that she is a...

6.6

128 votes

6.6

128 votes

Smart Money

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Edward G. Robinson · James Cagney · Margaret Livingston · Ralf Harolde

Plot Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game, where...

6.5

127 votes

6.5

127 votes

The Dark Horse

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Warren William · Bette Davis · Guy Kibbee · Vivienne Osborne

Plot Zachary Hicks is nominated at the Progressive party's convention even though he has little chance of winning the governorship. Kay suggests the party bosses hire Hal Blake (whom she loves)...

5.2

33 votes

5.2

33 votes

Mammy

1930 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Al Jolson · Lois Moran · Lowell Sherman · Louise Dresser

Plot Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran),...

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The Singing Fool

1927 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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Be Yourself!

1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Fannie Brice · Robert Armstrong · Harry Green · Pat Collins

Plot In the nightclub where entertainer Fannie Field sings, two rivals for her favors, Jerry Moore and Mac McCloskey, come to blows before either realizes the other is a boxer. Jerry...

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High Pressure

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast William Powell · Evelyn Brent · George Sidney · John Wray

Plot Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber...

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The Greyhound Limited

1929 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Terror

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast May McAvoy · Louise Fazenda · Edward Everett Horton · Alec B. Francis

Plot Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'

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Man to Man

1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Phillips Holmes · Grant Mitchell · Lucille Powers · Otis Harlan

Plot Eighteen years ago, John Bolton found the man who killed his brother Joe and shot it out. The man was killed and John went to prison. His son Mike is...

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God's Gift to Women

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

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Maybe It's Love

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Joan Bennett · Joe E. Brown · James Hall · Laura Lee

Plot Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan...

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The Second Floor Mystery

1930 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Grant Withers · Loretta Young · H.B. Warner · Claire McDowell

Plot Geoffrey West and Marion Ferguson (Grant Withers and Loretta Young), two American tourists in London, meet each other at a London hotel while eating breakfast. Both are reading the personal...

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Tenderloin

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Dolores Costello · Conrad Nagel · Mitchell Lewis · Dan Wolheim

Plot Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the...

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Ask Dad (S)

1929 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Faulcon

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Winston Miller · Ruth Renick

Plot A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.

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If I Were Single

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Beauty and the Boss

1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Marian Marsh · David Manners · Warren William · Charles Butterworth

Plot The Baron is a banker, in Vienna, who works at at very fast pace. He appreciates beautiful women, but fires the beautiful Miss Frey as he considers her a diversion...

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50 Million Frenchmen

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ole Olsen · Chic Johnson · William Gaxton · Helen Broderick

Plot Independently wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth, he can have any woman on his arms. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey,...

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The Barker

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Betty Compson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Plot A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his...

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