Screenplay: Jack Pollexfen

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


The Secret of Convict Lake

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Glenn Ford · Gene Tierney · Ethel Barrymore · Zachary Scott

Plot Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

The Man from Planet X

1951 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Robert Clarke · Margaret Field · Raymond Bond · William Schallert

Plot American journalist John Lawrence is invited to join astronomer John Elliott at his observatory on a remote island off the Scottish coast where Elliott is monitoring a passing planet that...

5.6

575 votes

5.6

575 votes

Daughter Of Dr. Jekyll

1957 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Agar · Gloria Talbott · Arthur Shields · John Dierkes

Plot A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a...

5.3

48 votes

5.3

48 votes

At Sword's Point

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Cornel Wilde · Maureen O'Hara · Robert Douglas · Gladys Cooper

Plot In 1648 France, it's the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue!

5.2

149 votes

5.2

149 votes

The Neanderthal Man

1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

4.5

31 votes

4.5

31 votes

Monstrosity

1963 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Joseph V. Mascelli

Cast Marjorie Eaton · Frank Gerstle · Frank Fowler · Erika Peters

Plot Somehow, atomic power is harnessed to transplant brains. An old woman uses this power to hire two sexy (and one homely) foreign housekeepers with the idea of transplanting her old...

3.8

21 votes

3.8

21 votes

Return to Treasure Island

1954 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Tab Hunter · Dawn Addams · Porter Hall · James Seay

Plot American academic Clive Stone is conducting research on pirate lore for a book. Part of that lore includes pirate Captain Flint of "Treasure Island" fame having hidden some piratical treasure...

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The Son of Dr. Jekyll

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Seymour Friedman

Cast Louis Hayward · Jody Lawrance · Alexander Knox · Lester Matthews

Plot Edward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from...

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Five Bold Women

1960 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Jorge López Portillo

Cast Jeff Morrow · Merry Anders · Jim Ross · Irish McCalla

Plot Marshal Kirk Reed is escorting five female prisoners---killers all--- from one part of Texas to another part of Texas where a new prison has been built. Along the way he...

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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Anthony Dexter · Jody Lawrance · Alan Hale Jr. · Robert Clarke

Plot Captain John Smith (Anthony Dexter), returned fom the Jamestown colony, is telling his story before the Court of King James I (Anthony Eustral.) He tells of the unrest in the...

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Son of Sinbad

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Dale Robertson · Sally Forrest · Lili St. Cyr · Vincent Price

Plot Sinbad was pursuing a secret weapon: Greek Fire. Attributed to the ancient Greeks, it was composed of pitch or bitumen, sulfur, and other ingredients. It was used in naval warfare...

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Captive Women

1952 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Gilmore

Cast Robert Clarke · Margaret Field · Gloria Saunders · Ron Randell

Plot In a post-apocalyptic New York City, three tribes of mutants (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver people) battle each other to survive.

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Mister Big

1943 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Donald O´Connor · Gloria Jean · Peggy Ryan · Robert Paige

Plot At the Davis School of the Theatre, run by Jeremy Taswell, where teen-age kids study drama and the serious arts, instructors Johnny Hanley and Alice Taswell are in love. The...

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Port Sinister

1953 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Harold Daniels

Cast James Warren · Lynne Roberts · Paul Cavanagh · William Schallert

Plot A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to...

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Lady in the Iron Mask

1952 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Louis Hayward · Patricia Medina · Alan Hale Jr. · Judd Holdren

Plot A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess, rather than a prince as in the original book by...

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Treasure of Monte Cristo

1949 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Glenn Langan · Adele Jergens · Steve Brodie · Bobby Jordan

Plot This mystery centers upon a distant relative of the illustrious Count of Monte Cristo who is living in modern San Francisco. He has with him a map leading to his...

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Problem Girls

1953 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Helen Walker · Ross Elliott · Susan Morrow · Anthony Jochim

Plot While awaiting his certificate to practice medicine, John Page takes a position the the secret reform school for rich girl-delinquents run by hard-bitten Miss Dixon. Page is forced to treat...

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Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Anthony Dexter · Eva Gabor · Alan Hale Jr. · James Seay

Plot Anthony Dexter---bare-chested most of the film with the smoldering nostrils from "Valentino"---as "Captain Kidd" is saved from hanging by an Earl who wants to get his hand on Kidd's treasure....

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