Screenplay: Frank Wead

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


Murder in the Fleet

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Robert Taylor · Jean Parker · Ted Healy · Una Merkel

Plot Captain John Winslow (Arthur Byron) is notified by the Secretary of the Navy that his cruiser will be receiving a new firing control gear manufactured by World Electric company, which...

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Sailor's Lady

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Nancy Kelly · Jon Hall · Joan Davis · Dana Andrews

Plot Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on...

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The Flying Fleet

1929 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George W. Hill

Cast Ramon Novarro · Ralph Graves · Anita Page

Plot The story follows six midshipman after they graduate from Annapolis. Their goal is to become U.S. Navy pilots and three of them are eliminated at the San Diego Naval Base....

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Storm Over the Andes

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Jack Holt · Antonio Moreno · Mona Barrie · Gene Lockhart

Plot A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.

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International Squadron

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler · Lothar Mendes

Cast Ronald Reagan · Olympe Bradna · James Stephenson · William Lundigan

Plot In 1941, an American flyer volunteers for the British RAF but must learn to be an obedient team-player rather than a risky thrill-seeking individualist.

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West Point of the Air

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Richard Rosson

Cast Wallace Beery · Robert Young · Lewis Stone · Maureen O'Sullivan

Plot A sergeant instructor at a flying school makes aviators out of two very reluctant recruits, including his own son.

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Hell in the Heavens

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Warner Baxter · Conchita Montenegro · Russell Hardie · Herbert Mundin

Plot During World War I, American ace pilot Lieutenant Steve Warner leads a group of replacements for the French Escadrille squadron headed by Captain Andre DeLaage, whose ranks of the best...

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I'll Tell the World

1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Lee Tracy · Gloria Stuart · Roger Pryo · Onslow Stevens

Plot Tracy is a standard newspaper reporter who gets in over his head when he gets mixed up with a plot to overthrow a mythical government. He is sent to Paris...

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Tail Spin

1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Alice Faye · Constance Bennett · Nancy Kelly · Joan Davis

Plot Flyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs.

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The All-American

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Russell Mack · George Stevens

Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Gloria Stuart · James Gleason

Plot The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

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