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
Direction Henry King
Cast Jeanne Crain · Glenn Langan · Lynn Bari · Alan Young
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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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....
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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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