Screenplay: O. Henry

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


O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Raincoat

2004 · Movie · 120 min. · India

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Shadows in the Wind (S)

2009 · Movie · 19 min. · Spain

Direction Julia Guillén Creagh

Cast Susan Stanley · Alice Henley · David Bailie · Edmund Dehn

Plot New York, 1905. Sue and Johnsy are two painters who share a studio. Johnsy falls sick with pneumonia and doesn't improve. Sue notices that her friend is always looking through...

6.6

26 votes

6.6

26 votes

The Great Consoler

1933 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

Pink Panther in 'A Pink Christmas' (TV)

1978 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bill Perez

Plot The Pink Panther employs various strategies in an effort to get himself a big holiday dinner.

6.3

122 votes

6.3

122 votes

A Straightforward Boy (S)

1929 · Movie · 14 min. · Japan

5.7

107 votes

5.7

107 votes

In Old Arizona

1928 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings · Raoul Walsh

Cast Warner Baxter · Edmund Lowe · Dorothy Burgess · Tom Smith

Plot Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot...

5.5

58 votes

5.5

58 votes

A Service of Love

1917 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Walter McGrail · Mildred Manning

Plot A struggling painter marries a struggling pianist. They have rosy imaginations, but are short of funds. She pretends to have a rich pupil. He pretends to be making sales while...

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The Texan

1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Gary Cooper · Fay Wray · Emma Dunn · Oscar Apfel

Plot A TERROR to men! A TORMENT to women! A THRILL for all!

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Black Eagle

1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Bobby Gordon

Cast William Bishop · Virginia Patton · Gordon Jones · James Bell

Plot Jason Bond hops a ride on a freight-train car, containing a saddled horse, Black Eagle, and some rifles. When the boxcar is placed on a railway siding in a Texas...

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An Unwilling Hero

1921 · Movie · min. · United States

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Vanity and Some Sables

1917 · Movie · min. · United States

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The Cisco Kid

1931 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Warner Baxter · Edmund Lowe · Conchita Montenegro · Nora Lane

Plot The Cisco Kid was to have been the sequel to the pioneering 1929 talkie In Old Arizona, with Warner Baxter repeating his Oscar-winning role as "O. Henry's Robin Hood of...

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Robin Hood of Monterey

1947 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Gilbert Roland · Chris-Pin Martin · Evelyn Brent · Jack La Rue

Plot The Cisco Kid travels to Monterey, California (then part of Mexico), where he clears the son of an old friend of a charge of murder.

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King of the Bandits

1947 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Gilbert Roland · Angela Greene · Chris-Pin Martin · Anthony Warde

Plot Traveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been impersonating him and he is a wanted man. After retrieving some of the stolen loot, he is caught...

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The Gay Caballero

1940 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower

Cast Cesar Romero · Sheila Ryan · Robert Sterling · Chris-Pin Martin

Plot The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to...

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