Screenplay: Dan Totheroh

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


The Dawn Patrol

1930 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Neil Hamilton · William Janney

Synopsis The story revolves around the pilots and crew of an RFC airbase, who deal with the stress of combat primarily through nightly bouts of heavy drinking. The two aces of the group, Courtney (Richard Barthelmess) and Scott (Douglas Fairbanks Jr),...

6.8

178 votes

6.8

178 votes

The Devil and Daniel Webster

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward Arnold · Walter Huston · James Craig · Jane Darwell

Synopsis William Dieterle adapts Stephen Vincent Benet's transformation of the Faust legend from the tale of an aging genius to that of struggling New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone, played by James Craig. When Stone absently exclaims that he would sell his...

6.7

489 votes

6.7

489 votes

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Robert Donat · Elissa Landi · Louis Calhern · Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiance Mercedes is forced to marry his rival De Villefort. Twenty...

6.7

394 votes

6.7

394 votes

6.4

181 votes

Deep Valley

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Ida Lupino · Dane Clark · Wayne Morris · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a new road, she takes an interest in Barry, a wild...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

The River of Romance

1929 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Mary Brian · June Collyer · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to...

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Seven Days Leave

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Gary Cooper · Beryl Mercer · Daisy Belmore · Nora Cecil

Synopsis A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that he is in fact her...

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Zoo in Budapest

1933 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Loretta Young · Gene Raymond · O.P. Heggie · Wally Albright

Synopsis Flamboyant Zani grew up and works in the zoo. He loves animals so much that he steals animal furs from the women who wear them. Zani coaxes young beautiful Eve, an orphan, to escape her caretakers while on a group...

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Remember Last Night?

1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Edward Arnold · Robert Young · Constance Cummings · George Meeker

Synopsis After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his investigation is hampered by the fact...

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Two Alone

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Jean Parker · Tom Brown · ZaSu Pitts · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. When reform school runaway Adam arrives, he is put to work by Slag and also mistreated. Mazie and Adam fall in love,...

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Yellow Dust

1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Wallace Fox

Cast Richard Dix · Leila Hyams · Moroni Olsen · Jessie Ralph

Synopsis After he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

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