Screenplay: Frank Wead

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


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

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

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Not rated