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
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Al Jolson · Betty Bronson · Josephine Dunn · Arthur Housman
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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
Direction Howard Bretherton
Cast Monte Blue · Edna Murphy · Grant Withers · Lucy Beaumont
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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
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Louise Brooks · Frank Fay · Laura La Plante · Joan Blondell
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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
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast May McAvoy · Conrad Nagel · Myrna Loy · George Beranger
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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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