Screenplay: Maxwell Shane
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Maxwell Shane. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 55
Wait 'Till The Sun Shines, Nellie
1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Jean Peters · David Wayne · Hugh Marlowe · Albert Dekker
7.4
94 votes
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
Hitting a New High
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Lily Pons · Jack Oakie · Eric Blore · Edward Everett Horton
4.1
36 votes
4.1
36 votes
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Bob Burns · Una Merkel · Jerry Colonna · Don Wilson
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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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