Screenplay: George Oppenheimer

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


A Day at the Races

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Plot Town villain Morgan has his sights set on taking over Judy's sanitarium and turning it into a casino. Aiding Judy in saving the sanitarium are Dr. Hugo Hackenbush, a horse...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

Libeled Lady

1936 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy

Plot Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is...

7.0

468 votes

7.0

468 votes

The Big Store

1941 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Plot Groucho, Harpo and Chico turn a big department store upside down as New York detectives trying to foil the hostile takeover the store and prevent a murder. Pretty late in...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Broadway Melody Of 1940

1940 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Fred Astaire · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Frank Morgan

Plot Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is...

6.6

244 votes

6.6

244 votes

I Love You Again

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Frank McHugh · Edmund Lowe

Plot Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

Born to Be Bad

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Fontaine · Robert Ryan · Zachary Scott · Joan Leslie

Plot Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) fools everyone with her sweet exterior including her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) and Donna's wealthy fiancée Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott). The only one who sees...

6.3

668 votes

6.3

668 votes

Two-Faced Woman

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Constance Bennett · Roland Young

Plot While at a ski lodge, Larry Blake sees instructor Karin Borg and decides to sign up for private lessons. The next thing he knows, she is Mrs. Blake. When he...

6.0

341 votes

6.0

341 votes

A Yank at Oxford

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Vivien Leigh

Plot Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. After several scrapes with...

5.9

303 votes

5.9

303 votes

Roman Scandals

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ruth Etting · Gloria Stuart · Edward Arnold

Plot A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden...

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes

Bathing Beauty

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.8

922 votes

5.8

922 votes

Adventures of Don Juan

1948 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Errol Flynn · Viveca Lindfors · Robert Douglas · Alan Hale

Plot In the end of the Seventeenth Century, Don Juan de Marana is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with a British fiancée...

5.7

392 votes

5.7

392 votes

The Crowd Roars

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Edward Arnold · Frank Morgan · Maureen O'Sullivan

Plot A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.

5.6

45 votes

5.6

45 votes

Perfect Strangers

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · Thelma Ritter · Margalo Gillmore

Plot Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, serving on a sequestered jury during a murder trial, fall in love. She is divorced, he is married.

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Rendezvous

1935 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard · Sam Wood

Cast William Powell · Rosalind Russell · Binnie Barnes · Lionel Atwill

Plot In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is...

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London by Night

1937 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast George Murphy · Rita Johnson · Virginia Field · Leo G. Carroll

Plot A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing London.

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Decameron Nights

1953 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Joan Fontaine · Louis Jourdan · Godfrey Tearle · Joan Collins

Plot The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a...

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Not rated

Killer McCoy

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

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Tonight We Sing

1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

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We Went to College

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Charles Butterworth · Walter Abel · Hugh Herbert · Una Merkel

Plot Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. He takes his wife and Glenn, who was another classmate, to...

Not rated

Not rated

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Edward Arnold · Fay Bainter · Richard Ney · Jean Rogers

Plot In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating...

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Not rated