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

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