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
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Kay Francis · Warren William · George Brent · Helen Lowell
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
Little Big Shot
1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Sybil Jason · Glenda Farrell · Robert Armstrong · Edward Everett Horton
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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
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Adolphe Menjou · Louise Fazenda
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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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