Screenplay: Tim Whelan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Tim Whelan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Safety Last!
1923 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer · Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Mildred Davis · Bill Strothers · Noah Young
Plot Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who...
7.7
11K votes
7.7
11K votes
Girl Shy
1924 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer · Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Richard Daniels · Carlton Griffin
Plot Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for other bashful young men, "The Secret of Making Love," chapters...
7.4
570 votes
7.4
570 votes
Hot Water
1924 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor · Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Josephine Crowell · Charles Stevenson
Plot Harold Lloyd plays Hubby who gets to marry the girl of his dreams (Jobyna Ralston). They have a very steady marriage until the worst thing happens, the in-laws arrive.
7.1
488 votes
7.1
488 votes
The Freshman
1925 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer · Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Brooks Benedict · James Anderson
Plot Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that...
7.0
457 votes
7.0
457 votes
My Best Girl
1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Mary Pickford · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Sunshine Hart · Lucien Littlefield
Plot Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of...
7.0
48 votes
7.0
48 votes
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Harry Edwards
Cast Harry Langdon · Joan Crawford · Edwards Davis · Tom Murray
6.7
59 votes
6.7
59 votes
The Murder Man
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Spencer Tracy · Virginia Bruce · Lionel Atwill · Harvey Stephens
Plot Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business...
6.4
45 votes
6.4
45 votes
Girl Crazy
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Mitzi Green
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Smash and Grab
1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Jack Buchanan · Elsie Randolph · Arthur Margetson · Anthony Holles
Plot Super-rich London toffs amuse themselves playing private detective to solve a series of smash and grab jewellery thefts.
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Hook Line and Sinker
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Ralf Harolde
Plot Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out...
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Exit Smiling
1926 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Beatrice Lillie · Jack Pickford · Doris Lloyd · DeWitt Jennings
Plot A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to...
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Hold 'Em Jail
1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong
Plot Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Peach-O-Reno
1931 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Zelma O'Neal
Plot After a quarrell at their 25th wedding aniversery, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but...
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The Camels Are Coming
1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan · Robert Stevenson
Cast Jack Hulbert · Anna Lee · Hartley Power · Harold Huth
Plot A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up...
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Everything's Rosie
1931 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Clyde Bruckman
Cast Robert Woolsey · Anita Louise · John Darrow · Florence Roberts
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Out All Night
1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Slim Summerville · ZaSu Pitts · Laura Hope Crews · Shirley Grey
Plot A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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The Crooked Circle
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast ZaSu Pitts · James Gleason · Ben Lyon · Irene Purcell
Plot A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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The Mill on the Floss
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast James Mason · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Felix Aylmer · Griffith Jones
Plot Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial...
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