Screenplay: Ivor Novello

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


Tarzan, the Ape Man

1932 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Neil Hamilton · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot Two white traders, James Parker and Harry Holt, are preparing to leave on a safari to find the fabled elephants' graveyard. The former's daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly and despite paternal...

6.7

21K votes

6.7

21K votes

Downhill

1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Ivor Novello · Isabel Jeans · Lilian Braithwaite · Ian Hunter

Plot Roddy (Ivor Novello), first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's theft. His family sends him away and...

Max

5.7

346 votes

5.7

346 votes

Glamorous Night

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Mary Ellis · Otto Kruger · Victor Jory · Barry MacKay

Plot A gypsy settlement in a small kingdom is on land believed to contain oil reserves. The kingdom's prime minister plots to overthrow the king--whose mistress is a beautiful gypsy girl--and...

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The Triumph of the Rat

1926 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts

Cast Ivor Novello · Isabel Jeans · Nina Vanna · Julie Suedo

Plot The rise of The Rat from Paris's slums to the gentleman status of Pierre Boucheron and his following fall, all by the hands of a beautiful girl he did not...

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The Return of the Rat

1929 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts

Cast Ivor Novello · Isabel Jeans · Mabel Poulton · Gordon Harker

Plot Zelie, a rich woman, is married to Pierre Boucheron "The Rat", but she's in love with other man. "The Rat" leaves to the slums of the city in search of...

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The Rat

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Raymond

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Anton Walbrook · René Ray · Beatrix Lehmann

Plot Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his...

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The Lodger

1932 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Ivor Novello · Elizabeth Allan · A.W. Baskcomb · Barbara Everest

Plot A maniac, who stalks and murders street-women at night, is terrorizing London. Michael Angeloff, a Hungarian musician, takes lodgings with the parents of Daisy Bunting, and a romance develops between...

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But the Flesh Is Weak

1932 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Montgomery · Nora Gregor · Heather Thatcher · Edward Everett Horton

Plot The Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming. At her...

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The Dancing Years

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Dennis Price · Gisèle Préville · Patricia Dainton · Anthony Nicholls

Plot The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love,...

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Free and Easy

1941 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Robert Cummings · Ruth Hussey · Judith Anderson · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot Max and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides...

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The Rat

1925 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts

Cast Ivor Novello · Mae Marsh · Isabel Jeans · Robert Scholtz

Plot When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the...

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King's Rhapsody

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Errol Flynn · Anna Neagle · Patrice Wymore · Martita Hunt

Plot Richard, raffish heir to the throne of Laurentia, accepts exile in order to live with the woman he loves, Marta Karillos. After seven years, however, on the death of his...

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I Lived with You

1933 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Ursula Jeans · Ida Lupino · Minnie Rayner · Cicely Oates

Plot In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still...

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