Screenplay: Roy Chanslor
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Roy Chanslor. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
One Hour to Live
1939 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Charles Bickford · Doris Dolan · John Litel · Samuel S. Hinds
Plot One Hour to Live affords John Litel, usually cast as rock-solid businessmen and incorruptable attorneys, the opportunity to play a double-dyed villain. Litel is cast as crooked fight manager Rudy...
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Strange Conquest
1946 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Jane Wyatt · Lowell Gilmore · Julie Bishop · Peter Cookson
Plot Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
1938 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Sally Eilers · Paul Kelly · Larry J. Blake · Maurice Murphy
Plot A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the...
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Bengal Tiger
1936 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Barton MacLane · June Travis · Warren Hull · Paul Graetz
Plot Cliff Ballenger, the wild-animal trainer for the circus had no fear of "Satan," the fiercest man-eating tiger in captivity, but the creature hated its master and longed to tear the...
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Destiny
1944 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Le Borg
Cast Gloria Jean · Alan Curtis · Frank Craven · Grace McDonald
Plot Two bank robbers, Cliff Banks and Sam Baker go their separate ways while being chased by the law. Now fleeing alone, Cliff begins to reflect, via flash back, the various...
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Washington Melodrama
1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Frank Morgan · Ann Rutherford · Kent Taylor · Dan Dailey
Plot Calvin Claymore is a wealthy businessman trying to get a bill passed to help the starving children of Europe at the outbreak of World War 2. He meets a dancer...
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Flying Cadets
1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast William Gargan · Edmund Lowe · Peggy Moran · Frank Albertson
Plot A newly-formed flying school, located at a small flying field, attracts a lot of young men based on the World War I reputation of its flying instructor, Captain Rockcliffe "Lucky...
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Unseen Enemy
1942 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Irene Hervey · Don Terry · Leo Carrillo · Andy Devine
Plot A Canadian military intelligence agent try to uncover a plot to sabotage American ships.
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The Devil's Party
1938 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Ray McCarey
Cast Victor McLaglen · William Gargan · Paul Kelly · Beatrice Roberts
Plot Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Man Hunt
1936 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William Clemens
Cast Ricardo Cortez · Marguerite Churchill · Charles Sale · William Gargan
Plot Jane, the school teacher, thinks that life in Coasterville is dull so she tells her pupils about the days of the Daltons Boys and the James Gang. When bank robber...
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Honeymoon Deferred
1940 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Edmund Lowe · Margaret Lindsay · Elisabeth Risdon · Chick Chandler
Plot Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won’t...
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The House Across the Street
1949 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Richard L. Bare
Cast Wayne Morris · Janis Paige · Bruce Bennett · Alan Hale
Plot Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses...
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Men in Exile
1937 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Dick Purcell · June Travis · Victor Varconi · Olin Howland
Plot Framed for a robbery he didn't commit, a man flees to a Caribbean island and gets involved with a woman, gun-runners and murder.
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Murder by an Aristocrat
1936 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Lyle Talbot · Marguerite Churchill · Claire Dodd · John Eldredge
Plot A wealthy family is blackmailed, murder results, and a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
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The Road to Reno
1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Randolph Scott · Hope Hampton · Glenda Farrell · Helen Broderick
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The Steel Key
1953 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert S. Baker
Cast Terence Morgan · Joan Rice · Raymond Lovell · Dianne Foster
Plot An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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Mississippi Gambler
1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Kent Taylor · Frances Langford · John Litel · Shemp Howard
Plot A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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Michigan Kid
1947 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ray Taylor
Cast Jon Hall · Victor McLaglen · Rita Johnson · Andy Devine
Plot Jim Rowan, after his discharge from the U.S. Calvary at the end of the Sioux Wars, seeks peace and security on an Arizona cattle ranch. But his arrival coincides with...
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Drums of the Congo
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Ona Munson · Stuart Erwin · Peggy Moran · Don Terry
Plot United States intelligence officer Captain Kirk Armstrong (Don Terry) is sent to Africa to go on a safari, led by Congo Jack (Stuart Erwin), to a spot containing a rare...
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Shanghaied Love
1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Richard Cromwell · Sally Blane · Noah Beery · Willard Robertson
Plot A sleazy sea captain not only treats his crew terribly, he also steals a sailor's wife and child. He is so abusive to the woman that she dies. He then...
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