Screenplay: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Bat

1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Roland West

Cast George Beranger · Charles Herzinger · Emily Fitzroy · Louise Fazenda

Plot A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

6.2

25 votes

6.2

25 votes

The Bat Whispers

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roland West

Cast Chester Morris · Chance Ward · Una Merkel · Richard Tucker

Plot Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. He...

5.3

32 votes

5.3

32 votes

Elinor Norton

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Claire Trevor · Gilbert Roland · Henrietta Crosman · Hugh Williams

Plot During World War I, Elinor Norton provokes the jealousy of her bridegroom Tony, who is prone to sullen moods, when she gives her friend Bill Carroll, who loves her, a...

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Long Live the King

1923 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

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I Take This Woman

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Gary Cooper · Carole Lombard · Helen Ware · Lester Vail

Plot A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's...

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Dangerous Days

1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Miss Pinkerton

1932 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joan Blondell · George Brent · Ruth Hall · John Wray

Plot Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she...

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The Doctor and the Woman

1918 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Cast Mildred Harris · True Boardman · Alan Roscoe · Zella Caull

Plot K is a mysterious man who settles into a small town and becomes a beloved figure there. However, when the life of his rival in love suddenly depends on K's...

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Tish

1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction S. Sylvan Simon

Cast Marjorie Main · ZaSu Pitts · Aline MacMahon · Susan Peters

Plot The town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

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