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
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Jed Prouty · Spring Byington · Kenneth Howell · George Ernest
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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
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Jed Prouty · Shirley Deane · Spring Byington · Russell Gleason
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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
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Jed Prouty · Spring Byington · Kenneth Howell · George Ernest
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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
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Jed Prouty · Spring Byington · Joan Valerie · Russell Gleason
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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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