Screenplay: Dwight Taylor

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


Top Hat

1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick

Plot Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

Pickup on South Street

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley

Plot While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government secrets on their...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Conflict

1945 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexis Smith · Sydney Greenstreet · Rose Hobart

Plot Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) is slightly injured in a car accident but pretends greater hurt so that he cannot accompany his wife Kathryn on a trip to the mountains. He...

7.1

595 votes

7.1

595 votes

The Gay Divorcee

1934 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady

Plot Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Betty Grable · Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Laird Cregar

Plot When chanteuse Vicky Lynn is found murdered the police bring in promoter Frankie Christopher for questioning. Frankie had been organising Vicky's career until she suddenly took a Hollywood offer just...

6.6

210 votes

6.6

210 votes

Something to Live For

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

6.6

59 votes

6.6

59 votes

When Tomorrow Comes

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Barbara O'Neil · Onslow Stevens

Plot Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness,...

6.5

114 votes

6.5

114 votes

Today We Live

1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks · Richard Rosson

Cast Joan Crawford · Gary Cooper · Robert Young · Franchot Tone

Plot The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew...

6.4

296 votes

6.4

296 votes

Interlude

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast June Allyson · Rossano Brazzi · Marianne Koch · Françoise Rosay

Plot The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. While working for America House, she meets a famous...

6.4

204 votes

6.4

204 votes

Follow the Fleet

1936 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.4

502 votes

6.4

502 votes

The Foxes of Harrow

1947 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Rex Harrison · Maureen O'Hara · Richard Haydn · Victor McLaglen

Plot Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the novel down into 118 minutes' worth of essentials for...

6.3

142 votes

6.3

142 votes

Vicki

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid

Plot The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gloria DeHaven · Lucile Watson

Plot Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's...

6.3

125 votes

6.3

125 votes

We're Not Married!

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Ginger Rogers · Fred Allen · Victor Moore · Marilyn Monroe

Plot A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris,...

5.7

184 votes

5.7

184 votes

Boy on a Dolphin

1957 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Alan Ladd · Clifton Webb · Sophia Loren · Alex Minotis

Plot Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold stature of a boy riding a dolphin, which...

5.6

229 votes

5.6

229 votes

Stingaree

1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Irene Dunne · Richard Dix · Mary Boland · Conway Tearle

Plot In 1874, in the Australian outback, police inspector Radford chats with wealthy sheepman Hugh Clarkson and his wife about Stingaree, the country's prized outlaw. Everyone, including Hilda Bouverie, the Clarkson's...

4.9

21 votes

4.9

21 votes

The Cape Town Affair

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · South Africa

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast James Brolin · Jacqueline Bisset · Claire Trevor · Bob Courtney

Plot South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists.

4.6

41 votes

4.6

41 votes

Special Delivery

1955 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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The Thin Man (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Don Weis · Andrew McCullough · William Asher

Cast Peter Lawford · Phyllis Kirk · Jack Albertson · Patricia Donahue

Plot Nick Charles, an ex-private detective, marries Nora and lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Nick's former underworld friends still hang around and get him involved...

Not rated

Not rated

Paris in Spring

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Mary Ellis · Tullio Carminati · Ida Lupino · Lynne Overman

Plot Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with...

Not rated

Not rated