Screenplay: F. Hugh Herbert

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Sitting Pretty

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Robert Young · Maureen O'Hara · Clifton Webb · Richard Haydn

Plot Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and...

7.0

499 votes

7.0

499 votes

Margie

1946 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

The Moon Is Blue

1953 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast William Holden · David Niven · Maggie McNamara · Tom Tully

Plot Successful architect Don Gresham (William Holden) engages a young actress, Patty O'Neill (Maggie McNamara), in conversation on top of the Empire State Building, and she accepts his invitation to dinner....

6.5

325 votes

6.5

325 votes

Dark Command

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers

Plot Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads...

6.4

420 votes

6.4

420 votes

If You Could Only Cook

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Herbert Marshall · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Lionel Stander

Plot Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Fashions of 1934

1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Powell · Bette Davis · Frank McHugh · Hugh Herbert

Plot Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. His assistant Lynn poses as An American interested in a dress and Snap conceals a camera...

6.1

90 votes

6.1

90 votes

Together Again

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Charles Coburn · Mona Freeman

Plot Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on...

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes

The Secret Bride

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Warren William · Glenda Farrell · Grant Mitchell

Plot Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of conflict...

6.0

29 votes

6.0

29 votes

Let's Make It Legal

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Claudette Colbert · Macdonald Carey · Zachary Scott · Barbara Bates

Plot The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh wouldn't dream of calling it off, but can't abandon his rose garden. Things change that afternoon, though, when...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

Three Faces West

1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast John Wayne · Sigrid Gurie · Charles Coburn · Spencer Charters

Plot Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town,...

5.9

82 votes

5.9

82 votes

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction F. Hugh Herbert

Cast June Haver · Lon McCallister · Walter Brennan · Anne Revere

Plot Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them....

5.8

22 votes

5.8

22 votes

The Little Hut

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ava Gardner · Stewart Granger · David Niven · Jack Lambert

Plot Three persons, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things...

5.7

346 votes

5.7

346 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Plot After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

Our Very Own

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Ann Blyth · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Jane Wyatt

Plot Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adopted parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail...

5.5

42 votes

5.5

42 votes

This Happy Feeling

1958 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Curd Jürgens · John Saxon · Alexis Smith

Plot On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that...

5.1

47 votes

5.1

47 votes

That Certain Age

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Deanna Durbin · Melvyn Douglas · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich

Plot Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton...

5.0

29 votes

5.0

29 votes

The Girls of Pleasure Island

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alvin Ganzer · F. Hugh Herbert

Cast Leo Genn · Don Taylor · Gene Barry · Elsa Lanchester

Plot In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria,...

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Melody Ranch

1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Gene Autry · Jimmy Durante · Ann Miller · Barton MacLane

Plot With a longer-than-usual running time on original release and booked and sold to the exhibitors as a "Gene Autry Special", which Republic would do once a year from 1939-1943 in...

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Not rated

Home, Sweet Homicide

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Peggy Ann Garner · Randolph Scott · Lynn Bari · Dean Stockwell

Plot Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood....

Not rated

Not rated

Forgotten Girls

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Louise Platt · Donald Woods · Wynne Gibson · Robert Armstrong

Plot A young woman is sentenced to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Her stepmother's gangster friends break her out, but it turns out that her problems are only beginning.

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Not rated