Screenplay: Joseph Fields

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joseph Fields. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Night in Casablanca

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jane Russell · Charles Coburn · Tommy Noonan

Plot Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

My Sister Eileen

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Janet Leigh · Jack Lemmon · Betty Garrett · Bob Fosse

Plot Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as...

6.4

366 votes

6.4

366 votes

My Sister Eileen

1942 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Janet Blair · George Tobias

Plot Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

The Walking Dead

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Boris Karloff · Ricardo Cortez · Edmund Gwenn · Marguerite Churchill

Plot Bringing the dead back to life was an extremely popular horror movie theme of the thirties and forties and Boris Karloff could certainly lay claim to being the king of...

5.9

227 votes

5.9

227 votes

Flower Drum Song

1961 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Nancy Kwan · James Shigeta · Benson Fong · Jack Soo

Plot A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and...

5.8

37 votes

5.8

37 votes

The Tunnel of Love

1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Doris Day · Richard Widmark · Gig Young · Gia Scala

Plot The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. Through a farfetched...

5.3

124 votes

5.3

124 votes

Bride for Sale

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

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Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Reinhold Schünzel

Cast Robert Young · Ruth Hussey · Lew Ayres · Lana Turner

Plot A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.

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The Big Shot

1931 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy · Edward Sedgwick

Cast Eddie Quillan · Maureen O'Sullivan · Mary Nolan · Roscoe Ates

Plot A rash go-getter is duped by would-be swindlers into buying swamp land which turns out to be worth a fortune.

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The Man from Texas

1948 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast James Craig · Lynn Bari · Johnny Johnston · Una Merkel

Plot James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe (Bari)....

Not rated

Not rated

Waterfront Lady

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Ann Rutherford · Frank Albertson · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Pepper

Plot When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a...

Not rated

Not rated

Fools for Scandal

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Carole Lombard · Fernand Gravey · Ralph Bellamy · Allen Jenkins

Plot Rene is broke and Kay is a rich actress visiting Paris. They meet, share a cab and dinner. He is smitten by her, but she leaves for London and he...

Not rated

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The Girl from Mexico

1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Donald Woods · Leon Errol · Linda Hayes

Plot In the first entry of an unintended-series that turned into a long-running series for RKO, Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay,...

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Mexican Spitfire

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Donald Woods · Linda Hayes

Plot Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up...

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Lost Honeymoon

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Franchot Tone · Ann Richards · Tom Conway · Frances Rafferty

Plot When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA....

Not rated

Not rated

The Spellbinder

1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Jack B. Hively

Cast Lee Tracy · Barbara Read · Patric Knowles · Allan Lane

Plot Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled...

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The Gentleman from Louisiana

1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Eddie Quillan · Charles Sale · Charlotte Henry · John Miljan

Plot In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.

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Happy Anniversary

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Not rated

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1,000 Dollars a Minute

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Aubrey Scotto

Cast Roger Pryo · Leila Hyams · Edward Brophy · Sterling Holloway

Plot A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid...

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Not rated