Screenplay: Maxwell Shane

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


7.4

94 votes

Nightmare

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Kevin McCarthy · Connie Russell · Virginia Christine

Synopsis A musician was hypnotised in order to commit a crime. When he wakes up he tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a police officer.

6.5

171 votes

6.5

171 votes

The Glass Wall

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Gloria Grahame · Ann Robinson · Douglas Spencer

Synopsis No one can believe his story of survival in the European concentration camps. When he escapes into the streets of Manhattan we get the feel of what the town was like. Mr. Glassman whose body of work in the Italian...

6.3

78 votes

6.3

78 votes

Fear in the Night

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Paul Kelly · DeForest Kelley · Ann Doran · Kay Scott

Synopsis One man wakes up in his room after a terrible nightmare in which he kills a woman. He immediatly realizes that he possibly has committed such a horrible crime.

6.2

41 votes

6.2

41 votes

The Naked Street

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Farley Granger · Anthony Quinn · Anne Bancroft · Peter Graves

Synopsis Roselle is the naughty but nice little sister of mobster Phil "Regal". The unwed Roselle has managed to get herself pregnant by Nick Branda, a convict who is soon on his way to the electric chair. Phil no sooner has...

6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

Hell's Island

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Mary Murphy · Francis L. Sullivan · Eduardo Noriega

Synopsis Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

The Mummy's Hand

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Dick Foran · Peggy Moran · Wallace Ford · Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka.

5.3

108 votes

5.3

108 votes

4.1

36 votes

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We Refuse to Die (S)

1942 · Documentary · 14 min. · United States

Direction William H. Pine

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Torpedo Boat

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Mary Carlisle · Phillip Terry

Synopsis Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by...

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Big Town After Dark

1947 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William C. Thomas

Cast Phillip Reed · Hillary Brooke · Richard Travis · Ann Gillis

Synopsis A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

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Double Exposure

1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Chester Morris · Nancy Kelly · Jane Farrar · Phillip Terry

Synopsis A news magazine hires an out-of-town photographer and the antics begin.

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A Dangerous Game

1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Andy Devine · Richard Arlen · Jean Brooks · Edward Brophy

Synopsis Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to...

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You're a Sweetheart

1937 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Alice Faye · George Murphy · Ken Murray · Charles Winninger

Synopsis Hal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley.

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Un piloto estadounid

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Wiles

Cast Richard Arlen · Eva Gabor · J. Carrol Naish · Nils Asther

Synopsis Deliberately set in an imaginary country, American pilot Dan Kendall falls for an exotic foreigner, Johanna Van Deuren but finds he has to fight her fiancé, Col Golas. Released from military prison on a promise that he will fly for...

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Adventure Island

1947 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast Rory Calhoun · Rhonda Fleming · Paul Kelly · John Abbott

Synopsis Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.

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Alaska Highway

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Ralph Sanford · William Henry

Synopsis Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is...

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She's Got Everything

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Gene Raymond · Ann Sothern · Victor Moore · Helen Broderick

Synopsis Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry a South American millionaire, but Carol refuses and vows to...

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Tip-Off Girls

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Mary Carlisle · Lloyd Nolan · Roscoe Karns · Buster Crabbe

Synopsis A gang of racketeers are using girl hitch-hikers and waitresses at greasy-spoon roadside cafés and truck-stops, to tip them off about valuable shipments and cargo's they can hijack. The federal agents send their own blonde in to infiltrate the gang...

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