Screenplay: S.J. Perelman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by S.J. Perelman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Monkey Business
1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
Plot On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. While stowing away on a ship...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Horse Feathers
1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
Plot Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff is hired as the new president of Huxley College. In order to beat Darwin, their rival school, in a football game, Wagstaff hires two ringers. However,...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Wyman · Broderick Crawford · Jack Carson
Plot Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. When they soon discover the money they can make as legitimate businessmen, they abandon their...
6.9
96 votes
6.9
96 votes
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton
Plot English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel...
6.5
8K votes
6.5
8K votes
One Touch of Venus
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Robert Walker · Ava Gardner · Dick Haymes · Eve Arden
Plot A window dresser in a department store feels a strange attraction to a mannequin in the display. One night he impulsively kisses her; she comes to life and reveals herself...
6.0
647 votes
6.0
647 votes
Early to Bed
1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick
Plot Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his...
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Sitting Pretty
1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Harry Joe Brown
Cast Jack Oakie · Jack Haley · Ginger Rogers · Gregory Ratoff
Plot Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters that are en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Dorothy, a lunch wagon proprietor, joins them.
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Paris Interlude
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Madge Evans · Otto Kruger · Robert Young · Una Merkel
Plot Julie has a star crossed romance with Sam, leaning on pal Cassie when unhappy. When Sam is believed dead Cassie urges Julie to take up with good guy Pat. When...
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Ambush
1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast Gladys Swarthout · Lloyd Nolan · William Henry · William Frawley
Plot Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as...
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Hold 'Em Jail
1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong
Plot Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Boy Trouble
1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Donald O´Connor · Joyce Mathews
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The Golden Fleecing
1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Lew Ayres · Rita Johnson · Lloyd Nolan · Virginia Grey
Plot A $50,000 life-insurance sale puts mild-mannered Henry Twinkle on the fast track at Ajax Insurance Company. Now he can marry his girl and climb the corporate ladder -- just as...
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