Screenplay: John L. Balderston
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John L. Balderston. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 23
Gaslight
1944 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty
Synopsis Gregory Anton (Boyer) is a smooth and cunning gentleman who seduces and marries the gullible Paula Alquist (Bergman). They take up residence in Paula's childhood home, long abandoned since the murder of her aunt years previously. After an all too...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
Smilin' Through
1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter
Synopsis John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look...
7.6
56 votes
7.6
56 votes
The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester
Synopsis Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken in by the eccentric philosopher-scientist Dr Pretorius. Pretorious tries to...
7.2
12K votes
7.2
12K votes
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Ronald Colman · Madeleine Carroll · C. Aubrey Smith · Raymond Massey
Synopsis An excellent cast and splendid photography make this the definitive film adaptation of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling novel. A British commoner is forced to pose as his cousin, the kidnapped king of a small European country, to save the throne. Complications...
7.2
930 votes
7.2
930 votes
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Stewart Granger · James Mason · Deborah Kerr · Jane Greer
Synopsis Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Prince Rudolph, who in a matter of days is to be crowned the nation's...
7.1
7K votes
7.1
7K votes
Mad Love (The Hands of Orlac)
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Karl Freund
Cast Peter Lorre · Frances Drake · Colin Clive · Ted Healy
Synopsis An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist's hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives.
7.0
565 votes
7.0
565 votes
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing
Synopsis Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Mummy
1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Karl Freund
Cast Boris Karloff · Zita Johann · David Manners · Edward Van Sloan
Synopsis The original, and by far the best film version of the mummy legend. Archeologists digging in Egypt uncover a 3000-year-old mummy which comes to life and attempts to restore life to its beloved princess. As he extends his influence over...
6.8
4K votes
6.8
4K votes
The House in the Square (I'll Never Forget You)
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Tyrone Power · Ann Blyth · Michael Rennie · Dennis Price
Synopsis A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
6.2
80 votes
6.2
80 votes
The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Randolph Scott · Binnie Barnes · Henry Wilcoxon · Bruce Cabot
6.2
134 votes
6.2
134 votes
Berkeley Square
1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne
Synopsis A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
6.2
23 votes
6.2
23 votes
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · John Loder · Frank Cellier
Synopsis Dr. Laurience, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his...
6.1
64 votes
6.1
64 votes
Little Old New York
1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Alice Faye · Fred MacMurray · Richard Greene · Brenda Joyce
Synopsis Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
6.0
28 votes
6.0
28 votes
Dracula's Daughter
1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Lambert Hillyer
Cast Otto Kruger · Gloria Holden · Marguerite Churchill · Edward Van Sloan
Synopsis Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.
5.7
304 votes
5.7
304 votes
Beloved Enemy
1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction H.C. Potter
Cast Merle Oberon · Brian Aherne · Karen Morley · Henry Stephenson
Synopsis Irish rebels launch an uprising against the British occupation of Ireland in the 1920s. One of the rebellion's leaders and a beautiful aristocratic Englishwoman meet and, despite the enormous class, cultural, political and social differences between them, fall in love.
5.5
31 votes
5.5
31 votes
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Zeisler
Cast Cary Grant · Mary Brian · Peter Gawthorne · Henry Kendall
Synopsis Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill:...
5.4
163 votes
5.4
163 votes
Red Planet Mars
1952 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Harry Horner
Cast Peter Graves · Andrea King · Herbert Berghof · Walter Sande
Synopsis An American scientist contacts Mars by radio and receives information that Mars is a utopia and that Earth's people can be saved if they return to the worship of God. Revolution sweeps the Earth, including the Soviet Union. But there...
4.8
142 votes
4.8
142 votes
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Walker
Cast Claude Rains · Douglass Montgomery · Heather Angel · David Manners
Synopsis An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
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Tennessee Johnson
1942 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Van Heflin · Lionel Barrymore · Ruth Hussey · Marjorie Main
Synopsis A chronicle of the life of Andrew Johnson from his first arrival in Tennessee to his time as President of the United States.
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Scotland Yard
1941 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Nancy Kelly · Edmund Gwenn · John Loder · Henry Wilcoxon
Synopsis Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
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