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

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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

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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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