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

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