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
Direction George Sidney
Cast Esther Williams · Red Skelton · Basil Rathbone · Carlos Ramírez
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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Killer McCoy
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Mickey Rooney · Brian Donlevy · Ann Blyth · James Dunn
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Tonight We Sing
1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast David Wayne · Ezio Pinza · Roberta Peters · Anne Bancroft
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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...
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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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