Screenplay: Agnes Christine Johnston
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Agnes Christine Johnston. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Movie Crazy
1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Clyde Bruckman · Harold Lloyd
Cast Harold Lloyd · Constance Cummings · Kenneth Thomson · Louise Closser Hale
Plot Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd), an accident prone young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets...
7.1
416 votes
7.1
416 votes
Show People
1928 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Marion Davies · William Haines · Dell Henderson · Paul Ralli
Plot Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But...
7.0
222 votes
7.0
222 votes
The Patsy
1928 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Marion Davies · Orville Caldwell · Marie Dressler · Lawrence Gray
6.6
90 votes
6.6
90 votes
Forbidden Paradise
1924 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri · Rod La Rocque · Adolphe Menjou · Pauline Starke
Plot Having earned the Czarina's love after having saved her small kingdom from revolutionary conspirators, young officer Alexei leaves his sweetheart Anna, the regent's lady-in-waiting. Pushed by spite to join her...
6.5
50 votes
6.5
50 votes
Daddy Long Legs
1919 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Mary Pickford · Milla Davenport · Percy Haswell · Fay Lemport
Plot Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her,...
6.2
26 votes
6.2
26 votes
Mad About Music
1938 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Deanna Durbin · Herbert Marshall · Gail Patrick · Arthur Treacher
Plot A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where...
5.5
56 votes
5.5
56 votes
Black Gold
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Anthony Quinn · Katherine DeMille · Raymond Hatton · Thurston Hall
Plot In the early 1920s, in the desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Charley Eagle (Anthony Quinn), is Indian who owns a small, hardscrabble ranch and is training a horse, "Black Hope,"....
5.5
26 votes
5.5
26 votes
The Divine Lady
1929 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Corinne Griffith · Victor Varconi · H.B. Warner · Ian Keith
Plot A partly fictionalized account of history begins with the arrival of slatternly Emma Hart, a cook's daughter, at the home of Charles Greville. Greville takes her as his lover and...
5.3
22 votes
5.3
22 votes
Three Wise Girls
1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Jean Harlow · Mae Clarke · Walter Byron · Marie Prevost
Plot Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married....
5.3
21 votes
5.3
21 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
Her Husband's Friend
1920 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Enid Bennett · Rowland V. Lee · Tom Chatterton · Mae Busch
Plot Princeton Hadley (Chatterton), because of favors done during his college days by Billy Westover (Lee), feels a moral obligation upon Billy's sudden death in an automobile accident to hold to...
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Home Stuff
1921 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Albert H. Kelley
Cast Viola Dana · Tom Gallery · Josephine Crowell · Nelson McDowell
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Lucky Devils
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Ince
Cast William Boyd · Dorothy Wilson · William Gargan · Bob Rose
Plot A group of stuntmen at one studio in Hollywood call themselves "Lucky Devils," and regularly chant "A stuntman makes a bad husband and a husband makes a bad stuntman." It...
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Janie Gets Married
1946 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast Joan Leslie · Robert Hutton · Edward Arnold · Ann Harding
Plot Married life isn't as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law's newspaper, but is never allowed to prove his real...
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Black Beauty
1946 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Max Nosseck
Cast Mona Freeman · Richard Denning · Evelyn Ankers · Charles Evans
Plot Widower Squire Weldon (Charles Evans). trying to raise his motherless daughter, Anne (Mona Freeman) presents her with a colt, Black Beauty (Highland Dale), in the hope that by disciplining the...
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Janie
1944 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Joyce Reynolds · Robert Hutton · Edward Arnold · Ann Harding
Plot Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an army camp just outside town. Janie...
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Headline Shooter
1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Otto Brower
Cast William Gargan · Frances Dee · Ralph Bellamy · Jack La Rue
Plot Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand and a hip flask in the other, yet catches breaking stories and disasters of all sorts on...
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The Hardys Ride High
1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Cecilia Parker · Ann Rutherford
Plot "The Hardys Ride High," is the sixth of the famous series dealing with the popular screen family. The new picture is different in every respect from the others, but the...
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The Tower of Lies
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Norma Shearer · Lon Chaney · Ian Keith · Claire McDowell
Plot After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may...
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Under 18
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Marian Marsh · Anita Page · Regis Toomey · Warren William
Plot A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't realize that the lecherous fellow is planning to do much more than...
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