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

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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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