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,...

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated