Screenplay: Maxwell Shane
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Maxwell Shane. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Federal Man-Hunt
1938 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Robert Livingston · June Travis · John Gallaudet · Charles Halton
Plot By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are...
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Grand Jury Secrets
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast John Howard · Gail Patrick · William Frawley · Jane Darwell
Plot A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
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Golden Gloves
1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk · Felix E. Feist
Cast Richard Denning · Jeanne Cagney · J. Carrol Naish · Robert Paige
Plot Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars Richard Denning as promising pugilist Bill Crane. Though tempted to sign up with crooked Joe...
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Adventure in Sahara
1938 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction D. Ross Lederman
Cast Paul Kelly · C. Henry Gordon · Lorna Gray · Robert Fiske
Plot Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt (C. Henry Gordon). To it comes, at his own request,...
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Eyes of the Underworld
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Richard Dix · Wendy Barrie · Lon Chaney Jr. · Lloyd Corrigan
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Follow That Woman
1945 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast William Gargan · Nancy Kelly · Regis Toomey · Byron Barr
Plot A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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The Man Who Dared
1946 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Leslie Brooks · George Macready · Forrest Tucker · Charles D. Brown
Plot It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder. He does this to prove that the death...
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Scared Stiff
1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Jack Haley · Ann Savage · Barton MacLane · Veda Ann Borg
Plot The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
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M Squad (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Don Medford · Herman Hoffman · Don Taylor · David Lowell Rich
Cast Lee Marvin · Ed Herlihy · Paul Newlan · Gail Kobe
Plot Captain Grey headed an elite detective squad in the Chicago, Illinois Police Department dedicated to fighting organized crime. Lieutenant Frank Ballinger was one of the police officers who worked alone...
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They Made Me a Killer
1946 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction William C. Thomas
Cast Robert Lowery · Barbara Britton · Lola Lane · Frank Albertson
Plot A young girl tries to prove a man innocent of robbery and murder charges.
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Tornado
1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Chester Morris · Nancy Kelly · William Henry · Gwen Kenyon
Plot Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the...
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Minesweeper
1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Russell Hayden · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Plot A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to...
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Dark Mountain
1944 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Robert Lowery · Ellen Drew · Regis Toomey · Eddie Quillan
Plot A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is...
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The Leather Pushers
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Astrid Allwyn · Douglas Fowley
Plot A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions,...
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Big Town
1946 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William C. Thomas
Cast Phillip Reed · Hillary Brooke · Robert Lowery · Veda Ann Borg
Plot A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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