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
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast Robert Shayne · Joyce Terry · Richard Crane · Doris Merrick
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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