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

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

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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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Not rated