Screenplay: Wallace Smith
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Wallace Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Bordertown
1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette
Plot Johnny Ramirez rises from bouncer to partner in Charlie Roark's border town casino. Charlie's wife Marie loves Johnny, but Johnny loves society woman Dale. Marie kills her husband, making it...
6.1
181 votes
6.1
181 votes
Upstream
1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Nancy Nash · Earle Foxe · Grant Withers · Lydia Yeamans Titus
6.0
55 votes
6.0
55 votes
Two Arabian Knights
1927 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast William Boyd · Mary Astor · Louis Wolheim · Ian Keith
Plot An American soldier, W. Dangerfield Phelps and his detested sergeant, company top kick Peter McGaffney, are captured by the Germans while engaged in a bitter fist fight inside a shell-hole...
5.9
44 votes
5.9
44 votes
The Lost Squadron
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Richard Dix · Mary Astor · Robert Armstrong · Dorothy Jordan
5.8
26 votes
5.8
26 votes
The Gay Desperado
1936 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Nino Martini · Ida Lupino · Leo Carrillo · Harold Huber
Plot Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American...
5.2
24 votes
5.2
24 votes
Friends and Lovers
1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Lili Damita · Laurence Olivier · Erich von Stroheim
5.1
26 votes
5.1
26 votes
The Captain Hates the Sea
1934 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Victor McLaglen · Wynne Gibson · Alison Skipworth · John Gilbert
Plot Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private...
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Her Husband Lies
1937 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Gail Patrick · Ricardo Cortez · Akim Tamiroff · Tom Brown
Plot Cortez es un gran jugador que quiere ir recto en la vida. Su inteligente hermano menor Alec quiere entrar en el mundo del juego, y Cortez a regañadientes le enseña...
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Shooting Straight
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Richard Dix · Mary Lawlor · James Neill · Matthew Betz
Plot Larry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets...
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The Lady Refuses
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Betty Compson · John Darrow · Gilbert Emery · Margaret Livingston
Plot A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to...
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King of Burlesque
1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Warner Baxter · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · Mona Barrie
Plot Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
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Framed
1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Evelyn Brent · Regis Toomey · Ralf Harolde · William Holden
Plot Rose Manning, the daughter of a racketeer who has just been killed, along with a policeman, in a shoot-out is undergoing a hard third-degree grilling from Police Inspector "Butch" McArthur,...
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Alias French Gertie
1930 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Bebe Daniels · Ben Lyon · Robert Emmett O'Connor · Daisy Belmore
Plot A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted...
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The Trumpet Blows
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Roberts
Cast George Raft · Adolphe Menjou · Frances Drake · Sidney Toler
Plot In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the...
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Love Comes Along
1930 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Rupert Julian
Cast Bebe Daniels · Lloyd Hughes · Montagu Love · Ned Sparks
Plot An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her...
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Almost Married
1932 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction William Cameron Menzies
Cast Violet Heming · Ralph Bellamy · Alexander Kirkland · Alan Dinehart
Plot A Russian with a forged passport attempts to elude the police and seeks the assistance of a man she met one summer in Scotland
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction William Hamilton · Edward Killy
Cast Gene Raymond · Margaret Callahan · Eric Blore · Grant Mitchell
Plot A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he...
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Bulldog Drummond
1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction F. Richard Jones
Cast Ronald Colman · Claud Allister · Lawrence Grant · Montagu Love
Plot Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when...
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The Dove
1927 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Roland West
Cast Norma Talmadge · Noah Beery · Gilbert Roland · Eddie Borden
Plot Dolores, a dance hall girl known as "The Dove," is in love with a gambler named Johnny Powell. Don José, a wealthy caballero smitten by Dolores' beauty, frames Powell on...
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The Silver Horde
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Evelyn Brent · Joel McCrea · Louis Wolheim · Jean Arthur
Plot Boyd Emerson loves the wealthy Mildred Wayland, but so does Boyd's unscrupulous rival in the Yukon salmon fisheries, Frederick Marsh. The two battle for Mildred's hand and for control of...
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