Screenplay: John Howard Lawson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Howard Lawson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Sahara
1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Bruce Bennett · Rex Ingram · J. Carrol Naish
Plot Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Algiers
1938 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Charles Boyer · Sigrid Gurie · Hedy Lamarr · Joseph Calleia
Plot Pepe Le Moko, a thief who escaped from France with a fortune in jewels, has for two years lived in, and virtually ruled, the mazelike, impenetrable Casbah, "native quarter" of...
6.4
521 votes
6.4
521 votes
One Against Seven
1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Paul Muni · Marguerite Chapman · Larry Parks · Harro Meller
6.3
46 votes
6.3
46 votes
They Shall Have Music
1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Joel McCrea · Gene Reynolds · Walter Brennan · Terry Kilburn
Plot Young Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a victim of a squalid life in the slums, fancies himself a tough guy until hearing a performance by violinist Jascha Heifetz (as himself). Inspired by...
6.3
21 votes
6.3
21 votes
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Susan Hayward · Lee Bowman · Marsha Hunt · Eddie Albert
Plot Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury...
6.1
184 votes
6.1
184 votes
Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Raymond Massey · Alan Hale · Julie Bishop
Plot An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound...
6.0
313 votes
6.0
313 votes
Adventure in Manhattan
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Reginald Owen · Thomas Mitchell
Plot Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him. It turns out the financier of her...
5.9
37 votes
5.9
37 votes
Blockade
1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Madeleine Carroll · Henry Fonda · Leo Carrillo · John Halliday
Plot Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by...
5.5
205 votes
5.5
205 votes
The Careless Years
1957 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Dean Stockwell · Natalie Trundy · John Larch · Barbara Billingsley
Plot Two high-school seniors teenagers, from different social standings, have a date and when the girl resists the boy's romantic advances, he begins to think of her as someone special, and...
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Four Sons
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Don Ameche · Eugenie Leontovich · Mary Beth Hughes · Alan Curtis
Plot When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot (Ameche), Nazi supporter (Curtis), artist in America (Lowery), and heroic German soldier (Ernest)....
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Our Blushing Brides
1930 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast Joan Crawford · Anita Page · Dorothy Sebastian · Robert Montgomery
Plot Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible...
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Earthbound
1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Warner Baxter · Andrea Leeds · Lynn Bari · Charley Grapewin
Plot A murdered man (Baxter) helps his widow (Leeds) bring his killer (Bari) to justice.
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Party Wire
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Jean Arthur · Victor Jory · Helen Lowell · Robert Allen
Plot When the daughter of the town's leading citizen and a local dairyman have a romance,and the man makes a sudden-and-unexplained trip out of town, the local gossips, employing the small-town's...
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The Pagan
1929 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Ramon Novarro · Renée Adorée · Donald Crisp · Dorothy Janis
Plot Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a...
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Good-bye Love
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Charles Ruggles · Verree Teasdale · Sidney Blackmer · Phyllis Barry
Plot A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a...
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Dynamite
1929 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Kay Johnson · Charles Bickford · Julia Faye · Conrad Nagel
Plot Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees...
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford
Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King
Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.
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Bachelor Apartment
1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Lowell Sherman
Cast Lowell Sherman · Irene Dunne · Mae Murray · Ivan Lebadeff
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Success at Any Price
1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction J. Walter Ruben
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Genevieve Tobin · Frank Morgan · Colleen Moore
Plot Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of...
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Cry The Beloved Country
1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Canada Lee · Charles Carson · Sidney Poitier · Joyce Carey
Plot In the back country of South Africa ruled by the Afrikáans, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find...
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