Screenplay: Tom Reed

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


Lonesome

1928 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Pál Fejös

Cast Barbara Kent · Glenn Tryon · Fay Holderness · Gusztáv Pártos

Synopsis Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

7.7

604 votes

7.7

604 votes

Waterloo Bridge

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Mae Clarke · Douglass Montgomery · Doris Lloyd · Frederick Kerr

Synopsis An American soldier falls in love with a dance-hall girl in London, not realizing that she is a prostitute.

7.0

198 votes

7.0

198 votes

The Last Performance

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Pál Fejös

Cast Conrad Veidt · Mary Philbin · Leslie Fenton · Fred MacKaye

Synopsis A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

6.8

58 votes

6.8

58 votes

The Great O'Malley

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Pat O'Brien · Sybil Jason · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Synopsis Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer...

6.5

68 votes

6.5

68 votes

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Ricardo Cortez · Mae Clarke

Synopsis A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Pittsburgh

1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Randolph Scott · Frank Craven

Synopsis Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds...

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

The Last Warning

1929 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Paul Leni

Cast Laura La Plante · Montagu Love · Roy D'Arcy · Margaret Livingston

Synopsis A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

6.1

22 votes

6.1

22 votes

Moss Rose

1947 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Peggy Cummins · Victor Mature · Ethel Barrymore · Vincent Price

Synopsis It's that smudge of fog called London under the reign of Victoria. When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl (Peggy Cummins) saw a gentleman...

6.1

28 votes

6.1

28 votes

Back to God's Country

1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Rock Hudson · Marcia Henderson · Steve Cochran · Hugh O´Brian

Synopsis Late 1800s. In the icy wilderness of Alaska, businessman Paul Blake and his assistant, Frank Hudson, kill an Eskimo and steal his map. When the dead man's sled dog, Wapi, attacks the men, they beat the Great Dane with a...

5.9

173 votes

5.9

173 votes

Night People

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Gregory Peck · Broderick Crawford · Anita Björk · Rita Gam

Synopsis Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck) tries to sort out the usefulness of informants, spies, bureaucrats,...

5.9

165 votes

5.9

165 votes

The Light Touch

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Stewart Granger · Pier Angeli · George Sanders · Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original...

5.7

48 votes

5.7

48 votes

The Bad Sister

1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Hobart Henley

Cast Conrad Nagel · Sidney Fox · Bette Davis · ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she...

5.6

70 votes

5.6

70 votes

The Case of the Curious Bride

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Warren William · Margaret Lindsay · Donald Woods · Claire Dodd

Synopsis Rhoda Montaine learns that her first husband, Gregory Moxley, is still alive, which makes things awkward for her, since she has remarried Carl, the son of wealthy C. Phillip Montaine. She turns to Perry Mason for help, but when he...

5.0

28 votes

5.0

28 votes

The Case of the Velvet Claws

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Warren William · Claire Dodd · Wini Shaw · Bill Elliott

Synopsis Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000. She wants him to stop...

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Calling Philo Vance

1940 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast James Stephenson · Margot Stevenson · Henry O'Neill · Edward Brophy

Synopsis Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes...

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The Storm

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Lupe Velez · Paul Cavanagh · William Boyd · Alphonse Ethier

Synopsis Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.

Not rated

Not rated

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Adulthood (S)

2018 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Justin Schaack · Kristin Schaack

Cast Andy Rocco Kraft · Tom Reed · Anna Weggel-Reed · Patrick Thomas O'Brien

Synopsis Sunny and Zack have to teach their childhood friend how to be an adult after he awakens from a 20 year coma.

Not rated

Not rated