Screenplay: Jerry Wald

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


The Roaring Twenties

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George

Plot After WWI, three war veterans, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), go back to their lives in the United States but they find...

8.0

6K votes

8.0

6K votes

They Drive by Night

1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast George Raft · Ann Sheridan · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart

Plot Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Manpower

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Plot Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One...

6.9

319 votes

6.9

319 votes

Out of the Fog

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Eddie Albert

Plot Fishermen Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are confronted by gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men....

6.6

170 votes

6.6

170 votes

Brother Orchid

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Plot Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds...

6.3

169 votes

6.3

169 votes

Torrid Zone

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Andy Devine

Plot Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

Living on Velvet

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

Little Big Shot

1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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Gift of Gab

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Edmund Lowe · Gloria Stuart · Ruth Etting · Phil Baker

Plot Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

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Varsity Show

1937 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Dick Powell · Fred Waring · Ted Healy · Rosemary Lane

Plot Winfield College students who are trying to put together the annual varsity show come into conflict with their faculty adviser, a stodgy old professor whose ideas are hopelessly out of...

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In Caliente

1935 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dolores del Rio · Pat O'Brien · Leo Carrillo · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Magazine editor Pat O'Brien gives Mexican dancer Dolores Del Rio a bad write-up, and then becomes romantically involved. Lots of songs and Busby Berkeley numbers.

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Garden of the Moon

1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Pat O'Brien · Margaret Lindsay · John Payne · Johnnie Davis

Plot John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. He has booked Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees for a season as his band, but...

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Navy Blues

1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ann Sheridan · Jack Oakie · Martha Raye · Jack Haley

Plot On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the...

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The Kid from Kokomo

1939 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Pat O'Brien · Wayne Morris · Joan Blondell · May Robson

Plot Hayseed boxer Morris won't fight until he finds the mother who abandoned him as a baby; O'Brien is scheming manager who gets him into the ring by hiring gin-soaked kleptomaniac...

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Hollywood Hotel

1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Dick Powell · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Hugh Herbert

Plot Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed...

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Broadway Gondolier

1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

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Sons o' Guns

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joe E. Brown · Joan Blondell · Beverly Roberts · Eric Blore

Plot Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army....

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Hard to Get

1938 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dick Powell · Olivia de Havilland · Charles Winninger · Allen Jenkins

Plot When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving...

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Million Dollar Baby

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Priscilla Lane · Jeffrey Lynn · Ronald Reagan · May Robson

Plot An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman...

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Three Cheers for the Irish

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Priscilla Lane · Thomas Mitchell · Dennis Morgan · Virginia Grey

Plot Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's...

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