Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joseph Hoffman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Has Anybody Seen My Gal
1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Piper Laurie · Rock Hudson · Charles Coburn · Gigi Perreau
Plot Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his...
6.5
308 votes
6.5
308 votes
Against All Flags
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Errol Flynn · Maureen O'Hara · Anthony Quinn · Mildred Natwick
Plot In 1700, the pirates of Madagascar menace the India trade; British officer Brian Hawke has himself cashiered, flogged, and set adrift to infiltrate the pirate "republic." There, Hawke meets lovely...
6.2
847 votes
6.2
847 votes
No Room for the Groom
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Tony Curtis · Piper Laurie · Don DeFore · Spring Byington
Plot Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves...
5.9
36 votes
5.9
36 votes
China Sky
1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Randolph Scott · Ruth Warrick · Ellen Drew · Anthony Quinn
Plot In a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from...
5.9
22 votes
5.9
22 votes
The Lone Hand
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Joel McCrea · Barbara Hale · Jimmy Hunt · Alex Nicol
5.7
121 votes
5.7
121 votes
Family Affair (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Don Fedderson · Edmund L. Hartmann · James Sheldon · Charles Barton
Cast Brian Keith · Kathy Garver · Anissa Jones · Johnny Whitaker
Plot Bill Davis is a single bachelor living in Manhattan with his butler Giles French. He is enjoying his life of freedom until his late brother's three children show up (twins...
5.7
36 votes
5.7
36 votes
Buccaneer's Girl
1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova
Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Philip Friend · Robert Douglas · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and...
5.6
108 votes
5.6
108 votes
Rails Into Laramie
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Jesse Hibbs
Cast John Payne · Mari Blanchard · Dan Duryea · Joyce Mackenzie
5.4
89 votes
5.4
89 votes
Duel at Silver Creek
1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Audie Murphy · Faith Domergue · Stephen McNally · Susan Cabot
Plot A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille,...
5.4
311 votes
5.4
311 votes
At Sword's Point
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Allen
Cast Cornel Wilde · Maureen O'Hara · Robert Douglas · Gladys Cooper
Plot In 1648 France, it's the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue!
5.2
149 votes
5.2
149 votes
Gung Ho!
1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Randolph Scott · Robert Mitchum · Alan Curtis · Noah Beery Jr.
Plot Seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. The men selected come from different walks of life but...
5.2
243 votes
5.2
243 votes
Gypsy Wildcat
1944 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Peter Coe · Nigel Bruce
Plot In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons...
5.0
41 votes
5.0
41 votes
Yankee Pasha
1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Jeff Chandler · Rhonda Fleming · Mamie Van Doren · Lee J. Cobb
Plot Salem, Massachusetts, 1800. Mountaineer Jason Starbuck rides into town with furs to sell and dreams to fulfill. He falls in love with Roxana, who breaks her previous engagement and leaves...
4.7
65 votes
4.7
65 votes
The King's Pirate
1967 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis
Cast Doug McClure · Jill St. John · Guy Stockwell · Mary Ann Mobley
Plot Lt. Brian Fleming volunteers to be flogged for a contrived offense and then discharged from the British Navy. Now he can infiltrate the pirate stronghold of Diego Suarez using his...
4.2
62 votes
4.2
62 votes
The Living Ghost
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast James Dunn · Joan Woodbury · Paul McVey · Vera Gordon
Plot Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving...
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Chicago Syndicate
1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Fred F. Sears
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Abbe Lane · Paul Stewart · Xavier Cugat
Plot An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in...
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Man with Two Lives
1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Edward Norris · Marlo Dwyer · Eleanor Lawson · Frederick Burton
Plot A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted...
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Carolina Blues
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Leigh Jason
Cast Kay Kyser · Ann Miller · Victor Moore · Jeff Donnell
Plot Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his...
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Branded (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Larry Cohen · Larry Peerce · Harry Harris · Lee H. Katzin
Cast Chuck Connors · William Bryant · John Pickard · Chuck Hamilton
Plot In the 1880s Jason McCord travels the country trying to prove he's no coward. He needs to do this because the military career of this West point graduate came to...
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Don't Trust Your Husband
1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Fred MacMurray · Madeleine Carroll · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Rita Johnson
Plot Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife...
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