Screenplay: Sam Hellman

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


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

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.

Not rated

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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....

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

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

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