Screenplay: Frank Wead
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Wead. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 30
The Citadel
1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison
Plot Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his...
7.1
464 votes
7.1
464 votes
Ceiling Zero
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · June Travis · Stuart Erwin
Plot Old pals Jake Lee, Tex Clarke and Dizzy Davis flew together in the Army during World War I. Almost twenty years later, Jake is the manager of the Newark, New...
6.7
112 votes
6.7
112 votes
They Were Expendable
1945 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Robert Montgomery · John Wayne · Donna Reed · Ward Bond
Plot In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the members of a PT boat squadron patrol Philippine waters and attack Japanese ships. The PT boat initially had little...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Air Mail
1932 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Gloria Stuart · Pat O'Brien · Slim Summerville
Plot Level headed Mike Miller runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking their lives to get the mail through-regardless of the weather. Following the death...
6.2
60 votes
6.2
60 votes
Stranded
1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Patricia Ellis · Donald Woods
6.2
30 votes
6.2
30 votes
Test Pilot
1938 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Lionel Barrymore
Plot Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
6.2
201 votes
6.2
201 votes
Dive Bomber
1941 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Alexis Smith
Plot A new flight surgeon (Flynn) and a Navy pilot (MacMurray) overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of Altitude Sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real...
5.9
204 votes
5.9
204 votes
I Wanted Wings
1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Ray Milland · William Holden · Wayne Morris · Brian Donlevy
Plot Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps --- a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied...
5.8
78 votes
5.8
78 votes
Destroyer
1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Glenn Ford · Marguerite Chapman · Edgar Buchanan
Plot Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is...
5.7
70 votes
5.7
70 votes
Dirigible
1931 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Jack Holt · Ralph Graves · Fay Wray · Hobart Bosworth
Plot A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole. There is competition between the airship division and fixed wing fliers, resolved in...
5.6
23 votes
5.6
23 votes
The Beginning or the End
1947 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Brian Donlevy · Robert Walker · Tom Drake · Beverly Tyler
Plot The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
5.4
30 votes
5.4
30 votes
China Clipper
1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Pat O'Brien · Beverly Roberts · Ross Alexander · Humphrey Bogart
Plot Inspired by Lindbergh's flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. With flying ace Hap Stuart he tries clipper ships on the Caribbean, then aims...
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Hell Divers
1931 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction George W. Hill
Cast Wallace Beery · Clark Gable · Conrad Nagel · Dorothy Jordan
Plot Story of rivalry between 2 Navy aircrewmen on and off duty.
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Fugitive Lovers
1934 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Richard Boleslawski
Cast Robert Montgomery · Madge Evans · Ted Healy · Nat Pendleton
Plot In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the...
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Sea Devils
1937 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff
Cast Preston Foster · Victor McLaglen · Ida Lupino · Donald Woods
Plot Brash young Coast Guardsman Mike O'Shay and much-decorated CPO 'Medals' Malone hate each other even before they meet, and their enmity isn't helped by O'Shay's attraction to Doris, Medals' daughter....
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Moon Over Burma
1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Dorothy Lamour · Robert Preston · Preston Foster · Doris Dolan
Plot The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Blaze of Noon
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Anne Baxter · William Holden · Sonny Tufts · William Bendix
Plot In the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers leave the uncertain life of carnival stunt fliers for steady jobs with the U.S. Air Mail. They've agreed that "guys like us don't...
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast William Powell · Esther Williams · Angela Lansbury · James Gleason
Plot A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one...
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20,000 Men a Year
1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Randolph Scott · Preston Foster · Margaret Lindsay · Mary Healy
Plot Jim Howell, a Civil Aeronautics Authorty official, has grounded Brand Reynolds for reckless flying. Reynolds starts a flying school but has little success until Howell has the CAA make Brad's...
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Submarine D-1
1937 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Pat O'Brien · Wayne Morris · Doris Weston · George Brent
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