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
Direction George Stevens
Cast Joan Fontaine · Ray Milland · Teresa Wright · Richard Derr
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
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Randolph Scott · Betty Grable
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)
Direction John Brahm
Cast Joseph Cotten · Eva Bartok · Jörg Becker · Bob Cunningham
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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...
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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...
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