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
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
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
Direction William D. Russell
Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Young · George Brent · Max Baer
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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
Direction David Miller
Cast David Niven · Mitzi Gaynor · Carl Reiner · Loring Smith
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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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