Screenplay: Edgar Selwyn

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


Possessed

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Wallace Ford · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Plot Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true,...

6.8

143 votes

6.8

143 votes

Chained

1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Otto Kruger · Stuart Erwin

Plot A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

6.2

79 votes

6.2

79 votes

Pierre of the Plains

1942 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Bruce Cabot · Phil Brown

Plot In 1940's Moose Hill, Saskatchewan, outdoorsman Pierre is attracted to saloon-owner Daisy. Hearing of her impending marriage to 'Jap' Durkin, a law officer and rival, Pierre arranges things so the...

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The Primitive Lover

1922 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Constance Talmadge · Harrison Ford II · Kenneth Harlan · Joe Roberts

Plot A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.

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Baby Face Harrington

1935 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Charles Butterworth · Una Merkel · Donald Meek · Harvey Stephens

Plot Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader...

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The Barbarian

1933 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ramon Novarro · Myrna Loy · Reginald Denny · Louise Closser Hale

Plot A racy story of Myrna, who arrives in Cairo to meet her fiance. She attracts the attention of Ramon, a conniving Arab guide who enchants rich women tourists in order...

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Turn Back the Clock

1933 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edgar Selwyn

Cast Lee Tracy · Mae Clarke · Otto Kruger · George Barbier

Plot Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the...

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For Better, for Worse

1919 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Elliott Dexter · Tom Forman · Gloria Swanson · Sylvia Ashton

Plot Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward...

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Dancing Mothers

1926 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Alice Joyce · Norman Trevor · Clara Bow · Conway Tearle

Plot Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.

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The Arab

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Rex Ingram

Cast Ramon Novarro · Alice Terry · Max Maxudian · Jean de Limur

Plot Jamil (Ramon Novarro) is a soldier in the Bedouin defence forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, who has deserted his regiment. In a remote village, he encounters an...

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