Screenplay: Jerry Wald
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerry Wald. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 33
The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George
Synopsis 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...
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
Synopsis 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...
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
Synopsis 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...
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
Synopsis 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...
6.6
170 votes
6.6
170 votes
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Brother Orchid
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp
Synopsis 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....
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
Synopsis 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....
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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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...
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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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. He has booked Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees for a...
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Navy Blues
1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Ann Sheridan · Jack Oakie · Martha Raye · Jack Haley
Synopsis 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,...
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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
Synopsis 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...
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Hollywood Hotel
1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Hugh Herbert
Synopsis 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...
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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
Synopsis 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...
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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
Synopsis 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...
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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
Synopsis 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...
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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
Synopsis 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...
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