Screenplay: Don Ryan

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


You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · John Litel

Plot Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death...

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Tear Gas Squad

1940 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Dennis Morgan · John Payne · Gloria Dickson · George Reeves

Plot Druggist Joe McCabe foils a robbery, and his brother Tommy decides to join the state police in order to impress Joe and Tommy's new date, Jerry, a policeman's daughter. When...

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On Trial

1939 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Margaret Lindsay · John Litel · Edward Norris · Janet Chapman

Plot A husband is put on trial for murder and he is ready to take the rap, for he is trying to shield his wife from scandal, along with their six-year-old...

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Midnight Court

1937 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ann Dvorak · John Litel · Carlyle Moore Jr. · Joseph Crehan

Plot After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

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The Red Raiders

1927 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Ken Maynard · Anne Drew · J.P. McGowan · Paul Hurst

Plot Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the...

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Fly Away Baby

1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane · Gordon Oliver · Hugh O'Connell

Plot Torchy and Steve are investigating a murder/jewel theft with roots in Germany. She lobbies her publisher to underwrite her participation in an around-the-world airplane race because arrogant businessman 'Sonny' Croy...

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Devil's Island

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Boris Karloff · Nedda Harrigan · James Stephenson · Adia Kuznetzoff

Plot For treating a wounded revolutionary, respected brain surgeon Dr. Gaudet is sentenced to the hellish French penal colony on Devil's Island. There, he rebels against the inhuman conditions and incurs...

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Uncertain Lady

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Citadel of Crime

1941 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Robert Armstrong · Frank Albertson · Linda Hayes · Russell Simpson

Plot The tale of a gang of mobsters trying to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.

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Nagana

1933 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Ernst L. Frank

Cast Tala Birell · Melvyn Douglas · Miki Morita · Onslow Stevens

Plot A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

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Smart Blonde

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane · Wini Shaw · Addison Richards

Plot Journalist Torchy Blane and her fiance Lt. Steve McBride are trying to solve the murder of Tim Torgson, who was killed right before Torchy's eyes.

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Broadway Musketeers

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Margaret Lindsay · Ann Sheridan · Marie Wilson · John Litel

Plot Isabel Dowling (Margaret Lindsay), Fay Reynolds (Ann Sheridan), and Connie Todd (Marie Wilson) are three women who grew up together in an orphanage, and who meet again later in life....

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Carnival Boat

1932 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast William Boyd · Ginger Rogers · Fred Kohler · Hobart Bosworth

Plot Honey, a young entertainer on a carnival boat, is in love with Buck but Buck's father is against the romance.

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