Screenplay: Sam Hellman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sam Hellman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 30
My Darling Clementine
1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Walter Brennan
Plot Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don Garner), planning to...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
Frontier Marshal
1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly · Cesar Romero · Binnie Barnes
Plot Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (e.g., Doc is killed by Curley before the...
7.1
97 votes
7.1
97 votes
The Return of Frank James
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Jackie Cooper · Henry Hull
Plot Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Henry King · Otto Brower
Cast Spencer Tracy · Nancy Kelly · Richard Greene · Walter Brennan
Plot An American newspaper searches Africa for a lost explorer.
6.5
156 votes
6.5
156 votes
The Baroness and the Butler
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast William Powell · Annabella · Helen Westley · Henry Stephenson
6.3
26 votes
6.3
26 votes
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Edward Arnold · Henry Stephenson
Plot On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and...
6.1
62 votes
6.1
62 votes
Little Miss Marker
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Dorothy Dell · Charles Bickford · Shirley Temple
Plot The film tells the story of "Marky" (Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When the man loses his bet...
5.9
29 votes
5.9
29 votes
Captain January
1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Shirley Temple · Guy Kibbee · Slim Summerville · Buddy Ebsen
Plot Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
5.8
26 votes
5.8
26 votes
Murder at the Vanities
1934 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Carl Brisson · Victor McLaglen · Jack Oakie · Kitty Carlisle
Plot Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to...
5.6
40 votes
5.6
40 votes
Powder River
1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Rory Calhoun · Corinne Calvet · Cameron Mitchell · Penny Edwards
Plot Ex-marshal Chino Bullock has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch...
5.5
97 votes
5.5
97 votes
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Shirley Temple · Alice Faye · Gloria Stuart · Jack Haley
Plot Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara's father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost...
5.1
105 votes
5.1
105 votes
Pirates of Monterey
1947 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Maria Montez · Rod Cameron · Mikhail Rasumny · Phillip Reed
Plot Captain Phillip Kent, a soldier of fortune, and his friend Sergeant Pio, journey from Mexico City to Monterey on a secret mission. Their assignment consists in delivering state-of-the art new...
5.1
70 votes
5.1
70 votes
The Runaround
1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Ella Raines · Rod Cameron · Broderick Crawford · Frank McHugh
Plot Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton...in competition with...
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Day-Time Wife
1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Warren William · Binnie Barnes
Plot The wife of an executive takes a job as secretary to a playboy architect because her husband has been ignoring her while attending to his own secretary.
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Search for Beauty
1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Buster Crabbe · Ida Lupino · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason
Plot Three shady characters - Larry, Jean, and Dan - want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals....
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Here I Am a Stranger
1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Richard Greene · Richard Dix · Brenda Joyce · Roland Young
Plot Young Englishman (Greene) meets his real father (Dix) in America, a former alcoholic. They both grow in getting know one another.
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Slave Ship
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Warner Baxter · Wallace Beery · Elizabeth Allan · Mickey Rooney
Plot Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride...
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Shine on Harvest Moon
1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · Irene Manning
Plot Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
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A Message to Garcia
1936 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Wallace Beery · Barbara Stanwyck · John Boles · Alan Hale
Plot Based on the actual event of Rowan's carrying a message from President McKinley to Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The parts of Dory and Raphalita are added.
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A Kiss in a Taxi
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Bebe Daniels · Chester Conklin · Douglas Gilmore · Henry Kolker
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