Screenplay: Jay Dratler

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


Laura

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson

Synopsis Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As he gets into the investigation, he learns that all the...

8.1

17K votes

8.1

17K votes

Call Northside 777

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker

Synopsis In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty....

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Dark Corner

1946 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Lucille Ball · Clifton Webb · William Bendix · Mark Stevens

Synopsis Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him, Galt believes...

6.9

656 votes

6.9

656 votes

Impact

1949 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Brian Donlevy · Ella Raines · Charles Coburn · Helen Walker

Synopsis No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving...

6.6

285 votes

6.6

285 votes

That Wonderful Urge

1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Robert B. Sinclair

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · Reginald Gardiner · Arleen Whelan

Synopsis An investigative reporter uses a ruse to meet Sara Fowler, a grocery-store heiress he's been writing unflattering things about. He gets her to start talking about herself and finds her down-to-earth and engaging, but before he can publish an honest...

6.1

110 votes

6.1

110 votes

We're Not Married!

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

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

Synopsis 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, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. America...

5.7

184 votes

5.7

184 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Synopsis After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

The Las Vegas Story

1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Jane Russell · Victor Mature · Vincent Price · Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis Investment broker Lloyd Rollins, insisting to his wife Linda that they stop at Las Vegas on their trip from Boston, begins to gamble heavily. Linda visits the Last Chance, a casino where she used to sing, and where she meets...

5.4

87 votes

5.4

87 votes

Higher and Higher

1943 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Michèle Morgan · Jack Haley · Frank Sinatra · Leon Errol

Synopsis Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke...with his household staff's wages seven months in arrears. Conniving valet Mike O'Brien hatches a scheme to pass off scullery maid Millie as Drake's debutante daughter and net a rich husband for the benefit of...

4.8

23 votes

4.8

23 votes

Dancing in the Dark

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast William Powell · Mark Stevens · Betsy Drake · Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis Conceited film star Emery Slade was on top in 1932; in 1949, he's broke and still insufferable. Fox producer Crossman enlists Slade's aid to persuade broadway star Rosalie Brooks to star in the film "Bandwagon." But when Slade meets Julie...

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It Comes Up Love

1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Gloria Jean · Ian Hunter · Donald O´Connor · Frieda Inescort

Synopsis A couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O’Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

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Meet Boston Blackie

1941 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Chester Morris · Rochelle Hudson · Richard Lane · Charles Wagenheim

Synopsis When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

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Confessions of Boston Blackie

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Chester Morris · Harriet Hilliard · Richard Lane · George E. Stone

Synopsis A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie...

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La Conga Nights

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Hugh Herbert · Dennis O'Keefe · Constance Moore · Ferike Boros

Synopsis Henry I. Dibble, Jr. (Hugh Herbert)is a dizzy millionaire playboy who loves rhumba music. Thorns in his side are his four maiden sisters Faith (Hugh Herbert), Hope (Hugh Herbert), Charity (Hugh Herbert) and Prudence (Hugh Herbert). A crisis comes when...

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It's in the Bag!

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Fred Allen · Jack Benny · Don Ameche · William Bendix

Synopsis Wealthy Frederick Trumble makes an eccentric new will, secretes much of his wealth in a chair, then, within seconds, is murdered. The new heir, Fred Floogle, runs a flea circus. Of course, the reputed $12 million inheritance goes to his...

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Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Curd Jürgens · Victoria Shaw · Herbert Lom · Gia Scala

Synopsis The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the...

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Girls Under 21

1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Bruce Cabot · Rochelle Hudson · Paul Kelly · Tina Thayer

Synopsis Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie...

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Studio 57 (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis

Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong

Synopsis This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

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Get Hep to Love

1942 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Gloria Jean · Donald O´Connor · Jane Frazee · Robert Paige

Synopsis Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

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