Screenplay: Sheridan Gibney

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


The Locket

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laraine Day · Brian Aherne · Robert Mitchum · Gene Raymond

Plot Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

6.8

386 votes

6.8

386 votes

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Josephine Hutchinson · Anita Louise · Donald Woods

Plot In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and...

6.7

259 votes

6.7

259 votes

Disputed Passage

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Akim Tamiroff · John Howard · Judith Barrett

Plot A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a...

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Martha Scott · William Gargan · Edmund Gwenn · Sterling Holloway

Plot Nostalgic, poignant story of a schoolteacher in a midwestern town who devotes her life to teaching. A warm reassuring film in the tradition of "Miss Dove" and "Mr. Chips".

6.4

52 votes

6.4

52 votes

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Walter Slezak · Albert Dekker

Plot At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a...

6.0

563 votes

6.0

563 votes

Submarine Patrol

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Greene · Nancy Kelly · Preston Foster · George Bancroft

Plot A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.

5.9

100 votes

5.9

100 votes

Anthony Adverse

1936 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Fredric March · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Woods · Anita Louise

Plot In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the...

5.8

132 votes

5.8

132 votes

A Letter of Introduction

1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds · George Murphy · Edgar Bergen

Plot An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to...

5.4

114 votes

5.4

114 votes

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Gail Russell · Diana Lynn · Charles Ruggles · Dorothy Gish

Plot In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...

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The World Changes

1933 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Aline MacMahon · Mary Astor · Donald Cook

Plot An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

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The House on 56th Street

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Gene Raymond · John Halliday

Plot This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin falls in love with Monte Van Tyle and breaks the news to lover Fiske that...

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Everything But the Truth

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Maureen O'Hara · John Forsythe · Tim Hovey · Frank Faylen

Plot Willie Taylor, small-town 4th-grade schoolboy, takes to heart his admired teacher's words about truthfulness, and repeats in public his uncle's remark about paying a kickback to the mayor. Result: principal...

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South of Suez

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast George Brent · George Tobias · Brenda Marshall · James Stephenson

Plot Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about...

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Weekend Marriage

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Two Against the World

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Constance Bennett · Neil Hamilton · Helen Vinson · Allen Vincent

Plot A woman from high society must testify in a murder trial prosecuted by her suitor.

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Not rated