Screenplay: John Larkin

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


Frisco Jenny

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Louis Calhern · Helen Jerome Eddy · Donald Cook

Plot Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to...

6.9

130 votes

6.9

130 votes

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gary Cooper · Robert Alda · Lilli Palmer · Vladimir Sokoloff

Plot Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Sidney Toler · Victor Sen Yung · Cesar Romero · Douglas Fowley

Plot A novelist friend of Charlie's appears to have committed suicide. At the international Exposition held on San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island Charlie shows that Zodiac, a phony mystic who blackmails...

6.0

27 votes

6.0

27 votes

The Dolly Sisters

1945 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Betty Grable · John Payne · June Haver · S.Z. Sakall

Plot In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's...

5.7

39 votes

5.7

39 votes

Carnival in Costa Rica

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Dick Haymes · Vera-Ellen · Cesar Romero · Celeste Holm

Plot Pepe Castro and Luisa Molina return to Costa Rica from U.S. schools to find that their parents have arranged their marriage. Pepe has brought his new sweetheart Celeste with him...

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Charlie Chan in Panama

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Sidney Toler · Jean Rogers · Lionel Atwill · Mary Nash

Plot Inspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.

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Society Girl

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast James Dunn · Peggy Shannon · Spencer Tracy · Walter Byron

Plot Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

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She Had to Say Yes

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction George Amy · Busby Berkeley

Cast Loretta Young · Winnie Lightner · Lyle Talbot · Regis Toomey

Plot It is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. Seems the clients...

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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

1940 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Warren William · Jean Muir · Eric Blore · Victor Jory

Plot A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out...

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Mind Your Own Business

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charles Ruggles · Alice Brady · Lyle Talbot · Benny Baker

Plot A newspaper nature columnist is inspired by his wife to use wildlife critters to report city gossip. He soon becomes the toast of the town. But when she passes on...

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Manila Calling

1942 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Carole Landis · Cornel Wilde · James Gleason

Plot When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio Communications Company in the Philippines, the staff manages to escape into the jungle, tie up with a band...

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Two Weeks with Love

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jane Powell · Ricardo Montalban · Louis Calhern · Ann Harding

Plot The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez...

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News Is Made at Night

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Preston Foster · Lynn Bari · Russell Gleason · George Barbier

Plot Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

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Quiet Please: Murder

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John Larkin

Cast George Sanders · Gail Patrick · Richard Denning · Lynne Roberts

Plot Jim Fleg (George Sanders), a ruthless, egotistical criminal, steals a priceless Shakespeare folio from the public library, killing a guard during the crime. With his partner, Myra Blandy (Gail Patrick),...

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City of Chance

1940 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Ricardo Cortez

Cast Lynn Bari · C. Aubrey Smith · Donald Woods · Amanda Duff

Plot Texas girl (Bari) goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend (Woods) to come home.

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Lynn Shores

Cast Sidney Toler · Victor Sen Yung · C. Henry Gordon · Marc Lawrence

Plot An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.

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Secret Agent of Japan

1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Preston Foster · Lynn Bari · Noel Madison · Victor Sen Yung

Plot Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to...

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The Mandarin Mystery

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Staub

Cast Eddie Quillan · Charlotte Henry · Rita La Roy · Wade Boteler

Plot Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by...

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Ladies Must Love

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast June Knight · Neil Hamilton · Sally O'Neil · Dorothy Burgess

Plot Three Broadway gold-diggers sign a contract to share their ill-gotten gains, and convince their more morally upstanding roommate, Jeannie, into signing it as well. When she falls for a Park...

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The Gay Caballero

1940 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower

Cast Cesar Romero · Sheila Ryan · Robert Sterling · Chris-Pin Martin

Plot The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to...

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