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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

Boy Trouble

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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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...

Not rated

Not rated