Screenplay: Maxwell Shane
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Maxwell Shane. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
City Across the River
1949 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Maxwell Shane
Cast Stephen McNally · Thelma Ritter · Luis van Rooten · Jeff Corey
Plot Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the...
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A Letter from Bataan (S)
1942 · Movie · 15 min. · United States
Direction William H. Pine
Cast Richard Arlen · Susan Hayward · Jimmy Lydon
Plot Documentary short subject which depicts the necessity of conservation of raw and recyclable materials such as metal and rubber in time of war. The facts are dramatized with the story...
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Power Dive
1941 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Helen Mack · Roger Pryo
Plot Arlen plays a tough test pilot. He and his brother develop a new secret aircraft made out of plastic.
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Danger Street
1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Jane Withers · Robert Lowery · Bill Edwards · Elaine Riley
Plot Pat Marvin, a photographer/reporter for a magazine gets some pictures of a gambling place and barely escapes with her life. The publisher decides to sell the publication, and the staff,...
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Submarine Alert
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Wendy Barrie · Nils Asther · Roger Pryo
Plot Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's...
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Too Many Blondes
1941 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Rudy Vallee · Helen Parrish · Lon Chaney Jr. · Jerome Cowan
Plot A man whose girlfriend turned him down and married another man tries to break up their marriage.
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Wrecking Crew
1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Joe Sawyer
Plot Two demolitions experts become arch rivals when they fall in love with the same woman in this drama. Their job is to bring down old skyscrapers and it is quite...
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Big Town Scandal
1948 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William C. Thomas
Cast Phillip Reed · Hillary Brooke · Stanley Clements · Darryl Hickman
Plot Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the Big Town's Illustrated Press, with the aid of police-beat reporter Lorelei Kilbourne battles against the core of the city's vice - its young delinquents....
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Flying Blind
1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Nils Asther · Marie Wilson
Plot A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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You Can't Beat Love
1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Preston Foster · Joan Fontaine · Herbert Mundin · William Brisbane
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Aerial Gunner
1943 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William H. Pine
Cast Chester Morris · Richard Arlen · Jimmy Lydon · Amelita Ward
Plot Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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People Are Funny
1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Sam White
Cast Jack Haley · Helen Walker · Rudy Vallee · Ozzie Nelson
Plot Two rival radio producers try to get the same sponsor, so they try to top each other with new ideas
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Wildcat
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Arline Judge · William Frawley · Buster Crabbe
Plot A wildcatter, broke but slick, manages to acquire a lease for oil-rich land but ruthless competitors sabotage his oil company any way they can.
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High Explosive
1943 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Barry Sullivan · Ralph Sanford
Plot Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go...
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One Body Too Many
1944 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Jack Haley · Jean Parker · Bela Lugosi · Blanche Yurka
Plot A timid insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) decides to place a call upon an eccentric recluse at his mansion only to find that he has just died. What...
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Gambler's Choice
1944 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Chester Morris · Nancy Kelly · Russell Hayden · Lee Patrick
Plot The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon. McGlennon, now...
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No Hands on the Clock
1941 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Rose Hobart · Dick Purcell
Plot A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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S.O.S. Tidal Wave
1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast Ralph Byrd · George Barbier · Kay Sutton · Frank Jenks
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The Price of Victory (S)
1942 · Documentary · 14 min. · United States
Direction William H. Pine
Plot Vice-President narrates a patriotic, propaganda short designed to boost morale in the the early days of World War II.
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This Way Please
1937 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Betty Grable · Ned Sparks · Jim Jordan
Plot A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes...
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