Screenplay: Dan Totheroh
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dan Totheroh. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 11
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
The Dawn Patrol
1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Errol Flynn · David Niven · Basil Rathbone · Donald Crisp
6.4
181 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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