Screenplay: Roy Chanslor

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


Johnny Guitar

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Crawford · Sterling Hayden · Scott Brady · Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis In Johnny Guitar (1954), a strong-willed saloon owner named Vienna faces hostility from a vengeful townsfolk led by the ruthless Emma. When a mysterious stranger, Johnny Guitar, arrives—a former lover with a hidden past—tensions escalate. Accused of harboring an outlaw...

7.8

13K votes

7.8

13K votes

Black Angel

1946 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Dan Duryea · June Vincent · Peter Lorre · Broderick Crawford

Synopsis Singing star Mavis Marlowe is murdered just after receiving a heart shaped ruby brooch. Before Kirk Bennett, who discovers the body, can call the police, the brooch is taken by someone he can't see, and he flees in panic. Of...

6.8

260 votes

6.8

260 votes

The House of Fear

1945 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Aubrey Mather · Dennis Hoey

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

6.4

553 votes

6.4

553 votes

Front Page Woman

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Roscoe Karns · Wini Shaw

Synopsis Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

Tarzan Triumphs

1943 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Johnny Sheffield · Frances Gifford · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. Tarzan, the isolationist, becomes involved after the Nazis shoot at him and capture...

5.4

302 votes

5.4

302 votes

Adventures of Superman (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George Blair · Thomas Carr · Philip Ford · Harry W. Gerstad

Cast George Reeves · Noel Neill · Phyllis Coates · Jack Larson

Synopsis TV Series (1952-1958). 6 Seasons. 104 Episodes. Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a...

5.2

522 votes

5.2

522 votes

Bombay Clipper

1942 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast William Gargan · Irene Hervey · Charles Lang Jr. · Maria Montez

Synopsis An American Foreign Correspodent, Jim Wilson, and his wife Frankie, who wishes he would give up his traveling job and settle down in one location, get involved with some foreign spies of an unnamed country (Japan, in this USA pre-WWII...

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The Vigilantes Return

1947 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Ray Taylor

Cast Jon Hall · Margaret Lindsay · Andy Devine · Paula Drew

Synopsis A marshal is sent to a frontier town to investigate a rash of murders, and gets caught up in a murder himself.

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Double Alibi

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Wayne Morris · Margaret Lindsay · William Gargan · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

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Wine, Women and Horses

1937 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Barton MacLane · Ann Sheridan · Dick Purcell · Peggy Bates

Synopsis His gal pal Valerie buys compulsive gambler Jim a meal after he goes broke. Jim takes off for points unknown and, stopping in a small Midwest town, he wins $20 off of George Mayhew in a game of horseshoes, then...

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The Girl on the Front Page

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Edmund Lowe · Gloria Stuart · Reginald Owen · Spring Byington

Synopsis The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

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Hazard

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

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Escape from Hong Kong

1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Don Terry · Leo Carrillo · Andy Devine · Marjorie Lord

Synopsis Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.

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Perilous Holiday

1946 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Pat O'Brien · Ruth Warrick · Alan Hale · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Based on a "serial" story by Robert Carson that ran in the Saturday Evening Post, this tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil (Pat O'Brien)viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart (Ruth...

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Secret Command

1944 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Pat O'Brien · Carole Landis · Chester Morris · Ruth Warrick

Synopsis Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'Brien goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the...

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Love Is on the Air

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Ronald Reagan · June Travis · Eddie Acuff · Ben Welden

Synopsis Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E. Nichols, who is in league with gangster Nicey Ferguson. Nichols...

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You Can't Escape Forever

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jo Graham

Cast George Brent · Brenda Marshall · Gene Lockhart · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred to the Bewildered Heart Column...

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Murder in the Clouds

1934 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Lyle Talbot · Ann Dvorak · Gordon Westcott · Robert Light

Synopsis Bob "three star" is the hotshot pilot for Trans America Lines. When he is not flying for the airlines, he can get into trouble doing aerobatics over the field. His main squeeze is Judy Wagner, a stewardess for the airlines....

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Burma Convoy

1941 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Noel M. Smith

Cast Charles Bickford · Evelyn Ankers · Frank Albertson · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis During World War II, an Allied trucker exposes a plot to sabotage supply lines along the 700-mile Burma Road.

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The Navy Comes Through

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Pat O'Brien · George Murphy · Jane Wyatt · Jackie Cooper

Synopsis A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

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