Screenplay: Joseph F. Poland
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joseph F. Poland. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
King of the Mounties
1942 · Movie · 196 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Allan Lane · Gilbert Emery · Russell Hicks · Peggy Drake
Plot King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane...
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
1940 · Movie · 267 min. · United States
Direction John English · William Witney
Cast Eduardo Ciannelli · Robert Wilcox · William Newell · C. Montague Shaw
Plot A mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him.
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Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945 · Movie · 219 min. · United States
Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Yakima Canutt · Wallace Grissell
Cast Richard Bailey · Linda Stirling · Roy Barcroft · Kenne Duncan
Plot A young couple journeys to Mystery Island to rescue the girl's father, who is being held prisoner by the evil Captain Mephisto, a pirate from 200 years ago who uses...
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Mandrake the Magician (TV Miniseries)
1939 · Series · 215 min. · United States
Direction Norman Deming · Sam Nelson
Cast Warren Hull · Doris Weston · Al Kikume · Rex Downing
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.
1941 · Movie · 263 min. · United States
Direction John English · William Witney
Cast Ralph Byrd · Michael Owen · Jan Wiley · John Davidson
Plot Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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King of the Royal Mounted
1940 · Movie · 211 min. · United States
Direction John English · William Witney
Cast Allan Lane · Robert Strange · Robert Kellard · Lita Conway
Plot Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed...
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Perils of Nyoka (TV Miniseries)
1942 · Series · 261 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Kay Aldridge · Clayton Moore · William 'Billy' Benedict · Lorna Gray
Plot It's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.
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The Sophomore
1929 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Eddie Quillan · Sally O'Neil · Stanley Smith · Jeannette Loff
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The Tiger Woman
1944 · Movie · 196 min. · United States
Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Wallace Grissell
Cast Allan Lane · Linda Stirling · Duncan Renaldo · George J. Lewis
Plot Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the...
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The Purple Monster Strikes
1945 · Movie · 201 min. · United States
Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Fred C. Brannon
Cast Dennis Moore · Linda Stirling · Roy Barcroft · James Craven
Plot A Martian spacecraft crash-lands near the observatory of Cyrus Layton, designer of Earth's first spaceship. The survivor, forerunner of an invasion, can assume the form of any earthman. Calling himself...
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Intrigue
1917 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction John S. Robertson
Cast Peggy Hyland · Marc McDermott · Bobby Connelly · Templar Saxe
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