Screenplay: Roy Chanslor
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Roy Chanslor. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 43
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
Direction George Marshall
Cast Paulette Goddard · Macdonald Carey · Fred Clark · Stanley Clements
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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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