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

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

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

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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