Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joseph Hoffman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Quick Millions

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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Girl in the Case

1944 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Edmund Lowe · Janis Carter · Robert Williams · Richard Hale

Plot William Warner is not only a crack defense lawyer, but he has an even more useful skill--he's an expert at picking open any kind of lock, which comes in handy...

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Week-End with Father

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Van Heflin · Patricia Neal · Gigi Perreau · Virginia Field

Plot Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his 2 girls, her 2 boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But...

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High Explosive

1943 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Barry Sullivan · Ralph Sanford

Plot Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go...

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My Kingdom for a Cook

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Charles Coburn · Marguerite Chapman · Bill Carter · Isobel Elsom

Plot Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a good-will lecture tour of the United States. His English gourmet cook is unable to accompany him,...

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The Patty Duke Show (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 32 min. · United States

Direction William Asher · Sidney Sheldon · Stanley Prager · Gary Nelson

Cast Patty Duke · Jean Byron · William Schallert · Paul O'Keefe

Plot TV Series (1963-1966). 3 seasons. 105 episodes. Cathy Lane, teen-aged daughter of a globe-trotting journalist, comes to live at the home of her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York...

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Charlie Chan's Secret

1936 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Wiles

Cast Warner Oland · Rosina Lawrence · Charles Quigley · Henrietta Crosman

Plot The heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.

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Goodnight, Sweetheart

1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Robert Livingston · Ruth Terry · Henry Hull · Grant Withers

Plot A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.

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Air Cadet

1951 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Stephen McNally · Gail Russell · Alex Nicol · Richard Long

Plot A new group of plebes (including roommates Joe, Russ, Jerry and Walt) arrive at an Air Force training camp and go through the usual "course of sprouts." Then on to...

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Safety in Numbers

1938 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

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And Baby Makes Three

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Robert Young · Barbara Hale · Robert Hutton · Janis Carter

Plot Jackie Walsh, divorced from Vernon Walsh, faints just before her marriage to Herbert Fletcher and learns she is pregnant, and ex-husband Vernon is the father-to-be. To win their legal battle...

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My Three Sons (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova · James V. Kern · Gene Reynolds · Peter Tewksbury

Cast Fred MacMurray · Stanley Livingston · Don Grady · William Demarest

Plot Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of...

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Pride of the Navy

1939 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast James Dunn · Rochelle Hudson · Gordon Oliver · Horace McMahon

Plot A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon...

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One Way to Love

1946 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Willard Parker · Marguerite Chapman · Chester Morris · Janis Carter

Plot A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be’s father, and the other must write commercial jingles.

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The Jones Family in Hollywood

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Tall Man Riding

1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Randolph Scott · Dorothy Malone · Peggie Castle · William Ching

Plot Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from...

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Thank You, Jeeves!

1936 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Greville Collins

Cast Arthur Treacher · Virginia Field · David Niven · Lester Matthews

Plot Erudite manservant Jeeves hopes to keep his frivolous employer Bertie out of new harrowing adventures, but a damsel in distress, carrying half of some mysterious plans, intrudes on their London...

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Swing Fever

1943 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Kay Kyser · Marilyn Maxwell · William Gargan · Nat Pendleton

Plot Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search...

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Young as You Feel

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Pier 5, Havana

1959 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Cameron Mitchell · Allison Hayes · Eduardo Noriega · Michael Granger

Plot Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) fights to protect Castro from dangerous pro-Batista counterrevolutionaries. Steve comes to Cuba to find his friend Hank Miller (Logan Field) who has been missing for awhile....

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