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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