Screenplay: Jerome Odlum
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerome Odlum. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Each Dawn I Die
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast James Cagney · George Raft · Jane Bryan · George Bancroft
Plot Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets...
6.8
301 votes
6.8
301 votes
Cover Up
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast William Bendix · Dennis O'Keefe · Barbara Britton · Art Baker
Plot An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion...
6.4
21 votes
6.4
21 votes
Highway Dragnet
1954 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Nathan Juran
Cast Richard Conte · Joan Bennett · Wanda Hendrix · Reed Hadley
Plot Mrs. Cummings, a free-lance magazine photographer and a recent widow after her husband committed suicide, and her model, Susan, are on an assignment to cover resorts California and Nevada. Driving...
5.9
54 votes
5.9
54 votes
The Fast and the Furious
1955 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction John Ireland · Edward Sampson
Cast John Ireland · Dorothy Malone · Bruce Carlisle · Iris Adrian
Plot A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman,...
5.3
72 votes
5.3
72 votes
I Was Framed
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction D. Ross Lederman
Cast Tod Andrews · Julie Bishop · Regis Toomey · Patti Hale
Plot A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but...
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Song of India
1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Albert S. Rogell
Cast Sabu · Gail Russell · Turhan Bey · Anthony Caruso
Plot Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Ronald Reagan · Joan Perry · James Gleason · Faye Emerson
Plot Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. The only trouble is that he usually has the wrong information and the paper must print...
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Crime Doctor
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Warner Baxter · Margaret Lindsay · John Litel · Ray Collins
Plot Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a...
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A Scream in the Dark
1943 · Movie · 53 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Robert Lowery · Marie McDonald · Edward Brophy · Elizabeth Russell
Plot A detective (Robert Lowery) tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
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The Strange Affair
1968 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Greene
Cast Michael York · Jeremy Kemp · George A. Cooper · George Selway
Plot When rookie P.C. Strange falls for an under aged girl, he is unknowingly compromised by a pair of pornographers. Meanwhile, seasoned Det. Pierce is out to catch mob boss Quince...
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Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast John Garfield · Priscilla Lane · Alan Hale · Frank McHugh
Plot Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to...
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Never Trust a Gambler
1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Dane Clark · Cathy O'Donnell · Tom Drake · Jeff Corey
Plot Small-time gambler flees town and hooks up with his ex-wife (Virginia) to avoid arrest for murder. Protecting Virginia from a masher, he accidentally kills the man, then tries to make...
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Strange Affair
1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Allyn Joslyn · Evelyn Keyes · Marguerite Chapman · Edgar Buchanan
Plot A comic strip artist and his wife investigate a murder at a banquet honoring war refugees.
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