Screenplay: Stuart Palmer
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stuart Palmer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Penguin Pool Murder
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason · Mae Clarke
Plot The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. Naturally, suspicion falls on his wife and her boyfriend, who were present. Inspector Piper...
5.7
46 votes
5.7
46 votes
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Corrigan
Cast Edna May Oliver · James Gleason · Lola Lane · George Meeker
Plot On vacation, schoolteacher/detective Miss Withers flies to Catalina Island; on landing, a passenger is found mysteriously dead. With local authorities unwilling to make waves over a natural (they hope) death,...
5.7
32 votes
5.7
32 votes
The Falcon's Brother
1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Logan
Cast George Sanders · Tom Conway · Jane Randolph · Don Barclay
Plot Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. Gay pursues the murderers, despite the...
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Edna May Oliver · James Gleason · Bruce Cabot · Gertrude Michael
Plot There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector...
5.4
35 votes
5.4
35 votes
Step by Step
1946 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Lawrence Tierney · Anne Jeffreys · Lowell Gilmore · Myrna Dell
Plot Johnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California.
5.1
51 votes
5.1
51 votes
Halfway to Shanghai
1942 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction John Rawlins
Cast Kent Taylor · Irene Hervey · Henry Stephenson · J. Edward Bromberg
Plot A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast John Barrymore · John Howard · Louise Campbell · Reginald Denny
Plot In this episode captain Drummond tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value, but Drummond will face the danger.
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Emergency Squad
1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast William Henry · Louise Campbell · Richard Denning · Robert Paige
Plot Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and...
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The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Tom Conway · Harriet Hilliard · Jane Randolph · Edgar Kennedy
Plot The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic...
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One Frightened Night
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Charley Grapewin · Mary Carlisle · Arthur Hohl · Wallace Ford
Plot An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his...
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast John Howard · Heather Angel · H.B. Warner · Reginald Denny
Plot A bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. But this time when the delinquents are caught it will be celebrated at last.
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X Marks the Spot
1942 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Damian O'Flynn · Helen Parrish · Dick Purcell · Jack La Rue
Plot It's 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WW2. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the army, but also a private detective. Eddy swings into action, when his father,...
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast John Howard · Heather Angel · H.B. Warner · Reginald Denny
Plot The invention of a war machine, that brings to explosion everything one wants to, puts Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into alarm.
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Murder in Times Square
1943 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Edmund Lowe · Marguerite Chapman · John Litel · William Wright
Plot Actor-playwright Cory Williams is sitting in a nightclub when Longacre Lil, a Broadway vagrant, and asks him for some money. He not only refuses her but call her a fake,and...
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The Smiling Ghost
1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Wayne Morris · Brenda Marshall · Alexis Smith · Alan Hale
Plot Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But...
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Death of a Champion
1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Lynne Overman · Virginia Dale · Joseph Allen · Donald O´Connor
Plot Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses...
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The Plot Thickens
1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ben Holmes
Cast James Gleason · ZaSu Pitts · Owen Davis Jr. · Louise Latimer
Plot John Carter just had one of those days. First he had an argument with a mysterious Frenchman. Then Alice wants him to pick her up at the park after she...
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Forty Naughty Girls
1937 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast James Gleason · ZaSu Pitts · Marjorie Lord · George Shelley
Plot Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City, and the show's press agent is murdered before the curtain goes...
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Marjorie Main · James Whitmore · Ann Dvorak · Phyllis Kirk
Plot "Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company...
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast John Hubbard · Wendy Barrie · Edgar Kennedy · Elizabeth Patterson
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