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...
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6.7
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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...
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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