Screenplay: Arnold Phillips

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


Pickup

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Beverly Michaels · Allan Nixon · Howland Chamberlain

Plot Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal...

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

Yoshiwara

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Michiko Tanaka · Roland Toutain · Lucienne Le Marchand · André Gabriello

Plot The daughter of a Japanese nobleman sells herself as a geisha in order to save her family from poverty and dishonour when her father dies leaving debts. She meets and...

6.8

83 votes

6.8

83 votes

The Girl on the Bridge

1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Beverly Michaels · Robert Dane · Anthony Jochim

Plot An elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's...

6.5

42 votes

6.5

42 votes

The Story of Three Loves

1953 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Pier Angeli · Ethel Barrymore · Leslie Caron · Kirk Douglas

Plot Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live...

6.3

139 votes

6.3

139 votes

The Brighton Strangler

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast John Loder · June Duprez · Michael St. Angel · Miles Mander

Plot During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. The actor who plays the strangler identifies so strongly...

6.2

40 votes

6.2

40 votes

Bluebeard

1944 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Carradine · Jean Parker · Nils Asther · Ludwig Stössel

Plot In Paris a killer is strangling young women and dumping their dead bodies into the Seine and is nicknamed "Bluebeard" after the classic French story of the man who murdered...

6.0

382 votes

6.0

382 votes

Soy un prófugo

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · Mexico

5.9

144 votes

5.9

144 votes

The Lafarge Case

1938 · Movie · 110 min. · France

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Kill or Be Killed

1950 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Marissa O'Brien · Rudolph Anders · George Coulouris

Plot Man accused of a murder he didn't commit hides out in the South American jungle.

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We Found a Naked Woman

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · France

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Tempête sur l'Asie

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Conrad Veidt · Sessue Hayakawa · Madeleine Robinson · Lucas Gridoux

Plot An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia.

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The Body Beautiful

1953 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Susan Morrow · Robert Clarke · Noreen Nash · Paul Guilfoyle

Plot A pin-up photographer's secretary (Susan Morrow) tries to hide the fact that she is the unidentified subject in a titillating picture.

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One Dangerous Night

1943 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Time Out of Mind

1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Robert Hutton · Ella Raines · Eddie Albert

Plot The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business.

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De Big van het regiment

1935 · Movie · 105 min. · Netherlands

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Fien de la Mar · Heintje Davids · Jopie Koopman · Philip Dorn

Plot Based on the novel "Spionage in het veldleger" (lit.trans. Espionage in the Field Army) by Mr A. Roothaert. A First World War farce about the mobilization of the Dutch Army....

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The King of the Champs Elysees

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · France

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Buster Keaton · Raymond Blot · Lucien Callamand · Paul Clerget

Plot In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

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Jealousy

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Gustav Machatý

Cast John Loder · Jane Randolph · Karen Morley · Nils Asther

Plot The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but...

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La belle de nuit

1934 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Louis Valray

Cast Véra Korène · Aimé Clariond · Jacques Dumesnil · Paul Bernard

Plot After he finds his woman is cheating on him with a war buddy, Claude happens to find her look-alike in the form of a prostitute, and plots to trick his...

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I Give My Life

1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Nicolas Farkas

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Anton Walbrook · Charles Vanel · Jean Dax

Plot Espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.

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The Return of Monte Cristo

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Louis Hayward · Barbara Britton · George Macready · Una O'Connor

Plot ouis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward plays the grandson of his namesake Edmond...

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