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

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

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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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