Screenplay: Richard Macaulay
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard Macaulay. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George
Plot After WWI, three war veterans, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), go back to their lives in the United States but they find...
8.0
6K votes
8.0
6K votes
They Drive by Night
1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast George Raft · Ann Sheridan · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart
Plot Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Manpower
1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale
Plot Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One...
6.9
319 votes
6.9
319 votes
Born to Kill
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry
Plot In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to...
6.7
611 votes
6.7
611 votes
Out of the Fog
1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast John Garfield · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Eddie Albert
Plot Fishermen Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are confronted by gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men....
6.6
170 votes
6.6
170 votes
The Good Die Young
1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins
Plot Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted...
6.4
67 votes
6.4
67 votes
Brother Orchid
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp
Plot Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds...
6.3
169 votes
6.3
169 votes
Across the Pacific
1942 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Sydney Greenstreet · Charles Halton
Plot Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martialled in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a...
6.3
680 votes
6.3
680 votes
Torrid Zone
1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Andy Devine
Plot Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7. But he is on his...
6.2
39 votes
6.2
39 votes
Front Page Woman
1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Roscoe Karns · Wini Shaw
Plot Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes...
6.2
51 votes
6.2
51 votes
Captains of the Clouds
1942 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast James Cagney · Dennis Morgan · Brenda Marshall · Alan Hale
Plot Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girl-friend of one of them....
5.7
160 votes
5.7
160 votes
Varsity Show
1937 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast Dick Powell · Fred Waring · Ted Healy · Rosemary Lane
Plot Winfield College students who are trying to put together the annual varsity show come into conflict with their faculty adviser, a stodgy old professor whose ideas are hopelessly out of...
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Wings for the Eagle
1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · George Tobias
Plot Set at a factory that makes aircraft for World War II, Roma and Brad Maple's marriage begins to show signs of difficulty. Their problems get worse when Brad's friend Corky,...
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Garden of the Moon
1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Pat O'Brien · Margaret Lindsay · John Payne · Johnnie Davis
Plot John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. He has booked Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees for a season as his band, but...
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Navy Blues
1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Ann Sheridan · Jack Oakie · Martha Raye · Jack Haley
Plot On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the...
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The Kid from Kokomo
1939 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Pat O'Brien · Wayne Morris · Joan Blondell · May Robson
Plot Hayseed boxer Morris won't fight until he finds the mother who abandoned him as a baby; O'Brien is scheming manager who gets him into the ring by hiring gin-soaked kleptomaniac...
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Hollywood Hotel
1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Hugh Herbert
Plot Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed...
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Earthworm Tractors
1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joe E. Brown · June Travis · Guy Kibbee · Dick Foran
Plot Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really...
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Hard to Get
1938 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Dick Powell · Olivia de Havilland · Charles Winninger · Allen Jenkins
Plot When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving...
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Million Dollar Baby
1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Priscilla Lane · Jeffrey Lynn · Ronald Reagan · May Robson
Plot An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman...
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