Screenplay: Samuel Hopkins Adams

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


It Happened One Night

1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Plot When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across country by bus, a fugitive...

7.9

16K votes

7.9

16K votes

The Wild Party

1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Clara Bow · Fredric March · Marceline Day · Shirley O'Hara

Plot Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

The Harvey Girls

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Judy Garland · John Hodiak · Ray Bolger · Angela Lansbury

Plot A frothy musical about the romantic misadventures of the Harvey girls, waitresses employed by the Old West Harvey Restaurant chain. Their ladylike behavior had a civilizing effect on their wild...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone

Plot President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.

5.6

39 votes

5.6

39 votes

The Perfect Specimen

1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

5.2

26 votes

5.2

26 votes

Men in Her Life

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Lois Moran · Charles Bickford · Victor Varconi · Don Dillaway

Plot A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a...

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A Love Sublime

1917 · Movie · min. · United States

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Triumph

1917 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Joseph De Grasse

Cast Dorothy Phillips · Lon Chaney · William Stowell · William Dyer

Plot This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances...

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The President's Mystery

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Betty Furness · Sidney Blackmer · Evelyn Brent

Plot A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able...

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Flaming Youth

1923 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Colleen Moore · Milton Sills · Elliott Dexter · Sylvia Breamer

Plot Discouraged by the unhappy marriages in her family, Patricia Fentriss refuses Cary Scott's proposal and allows herself to be charmed by Leo Stenak, a musician, into joining a yachting party...

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Week Ends Only

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Joan Bennett · Ben Lyon · John Halliday · Halliwell Hobbes

Plot Joan Bennett's father lost his fortune in the stock market crash and now she earns her living as a hostess at her ex-butler's speakeasy and ekes out her income as...

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You Can't Run Away from It

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Dick Powell

Cast June Allyson · Jack Lemmon · Charles Bickford · Paul Gilbert

Plot Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous...

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