Screenplay: Richard Schayer
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard Schayer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Cameraman
1928 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton · Marceline Day · Harry Gribbon · Harold Goodwin
Plot Luke Shannon (Buster Keaton), is a bumbling photographer who, in order to win the favor of a beautiful woman, takes a job as a newsreel cameraman. Hilarity ensues as he...
7.9
3K votes
7.9
3K votes
Hallelujah!
1929 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Daniel L. Haynes · Nina Mae McKinney · William Fountaine · Harry Gray
Plot In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game. He loses $100, the money he got...
7.0
328 votes
7.0
328 votes
The Mummy
1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Karl Freund
Cast Boris Karloff · Zita Johann · David Manners · Edward Van Sloan
Plot 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...
6.8
4K votes
6.8
4K votes
Spite Marriage
1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton · Dorothy Sebastian · Edward Earle · Leila Hyams
Plot Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances, he dons someone else's tuxedo and races to the...
6.6
225 votes
6.6
225 votes
Wild Orchids
1929 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Greta Garbo · Lewis Stone · Nils Asther · Dick Sutherland
Plot A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.
6.3
39 votes
6.3
39 votes
The Dragon Painter
1919 · Movie · 53 min. · United States
Direction William Worthington
Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Toyo Fujita · Edward Peil Sr. · Tsuru Aoki
Plot Tatsu is a slightly delusional painter who lives in the wilderness. He spends his days painting nothing but the image of his love, a princess he believes to have been...
6.3
43 votes
6.3
43 votes
Mrs. Parkington
1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Peter Lawford · Frances Rafferty
Plot In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner...
6.3
67 votes
6.3
67 votes
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast Joan Crawford · Lester Vail · Cliff Edwards · William Bakewell
Plot After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheel man in a gangland massacre. Bert,...
6.2
100 votes
6.2
100 votes
Kim
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Errol Flynn · Dean Stockwell · Paul Lukas · Robert Douglas
Plot During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
6.2
679 votes
6.2
679 votes
Private Lives
1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Montgomery · Reginald Denny · Una Merkel
Plot Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Both couples go to a hotel...
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
Black Magic
1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff · Orson Welles
Cast Orson Welles · Nancy Guild · Akim Tamiroff · Frank Latimore
Plot Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
5.9
207 votes
5.9
207 votes
The Black Arrow
1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Louis Hayward · Janet Blair · George Macready · Edgar Buchanan
Plot A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now...
5.8
122 votes
5.8
122 votes
Arizona Raiders
1965 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Dante · Ben Cooper · Buster Crabbe
Plot Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to...
5.6
94 votes
5.6
94 votes
Doughboys
1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Buster Keaton · Sally Eilers · Cliff Edwards · Edward Brophy
Plot Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army....
5.5
40 votes
5.5
40 votes
Trader Horn
1931 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Harry Carey · Edwina Booth · Duncan Renaldo · Mutia Omoolu
Plot While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost...
5.4
64 votes
5.4
64 votes
Lancelot and Guinevere
1963 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cornel Wilde
Cast Cornel Wilde · Jean Wallace · Brian Aherne · George Baker
Plot Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere, bride of Arthur, and...
5.4
79 votes
5.4
79 votes
Lorna Doone
1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Barbara Hale · Richard Greene · Carl Benton Reid · William Bishop
5.4
29 votes
5.4
29 votes
The Bandits of Corsica
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Ray Nazarro
Cast Richard Greene · Paula Raymond · Raymond Burr · Dona Drake
Plot Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
5.0
25 votes
5.0
25 votes
Gun Belt
1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Ray Nazarro
Cast George Montgomery · Tab Hunter · Helen Westcott · John Dehner
Plot Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on...
4.8
51 votes
4.8
51 votes
Cripple Creek
1952 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Ray Nazarro
Cast George Montgomery · Karin Booth · Jerome Courtland · William Bishop
Plot Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.
4.8
42 votes
4.8
42 votes