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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