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
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Loretta Young · Norman Foster · Aline MacMahon · George Brent
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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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