Screenplay: Eric Taylor
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Eric Taylor. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 39
Phantom Of The Opera
1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier
Synopsis Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
The Black Cat
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Albert S. Rogell
Cast Basil Rathbone · Hugh Herbert · Broderick Crawford · Bela Lugosi
Synopsis Greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of Henrietta Winslow. Murder, thunder claps, howling cats, gun shots, screams in the night, hidden passages -- all the proper ingredients.
6.1
129 votes
6.1
129 votes
Black Friday
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Stanley Ridges · Anne Nagel
Synopsis When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disasterous Jeckll...
5.9
140 votes
5.9
140 votes
The Whistler
1944 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Richard Dix · Gloria Stuart · J. Carrol Naish · Alan Dinehart
Synopsis The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler, a shadowy (and unbilled) figure, introduced each film as he'd done on radio: "I am the Whistler...and I...
5.9
47 votes
5.9
47 votes
Son of Dracula
1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Robert Paige · Louise Allbritton · Evelyn Ankers
Synopsis Count Alucard finds his way from Budapest to the swamps of the Deep South after meeting Katherine Caldwell, of the moneyed Caldwell clan that runs a plantation called Dark Oaks. She's obsessed with occult matters. Who better to guide her...
5.5
257 votes
5.5
257 votes
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Lon Chaney Jr. · Ralph Bellamy · Lionel Atwill
Synopsis The villagers finally decide to free themselves of the Frankenstein menace and blow up Castle Frankenstein, but this succeeds in reviving the monster. Ygor takes the monster to the village of Vasaria to find Frankenstein’s second son Ludwig who works...
5.5
292 votes
5.5
292 votes
Big Jim McLain
1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast John Wayne · Nancy Olson · James Arness · Alan Napier
Synopsis U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii.
4.0
64 votes
4.0
64 votes
North of the Great Divide
1950 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · Penny Edwards · Gordon Jones
Synopsis The annual return of the salmon each year gives the Indians of the Northwest enough food to last until the next year. This way of live is threatened by Banning who puts in a cannery on the river to harvest...
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The Devil's Henchman
1949 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Seymour Friedman
Cast Warner Baxter · Mary Beth Hughes · Mike Mazurki · Peggy Converse
Synopsis Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man,...
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The Secret of St. Ives
1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Richard Ney · Vanessa Brown · Henry Daniell · Edgar Barrier
Synopsis Anatole de Keroual is captured by the British in the Napoleonic war and imprisoned in the dungeon of Edinburgh Castle with six companions. Floria Gilchrist, coveted by the fortress commander, Major Edward Chevenish, falls in love with Anatole, and he...
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Gale Sondergaard · Brenda Joyce · Kirby Grant · Milburn Stone
Synopsis Jean takes the job of caretaker/companion (before the word took on a completely alternate-life style meaning) to blind woman Zenobia. Also hanging around the house, in this horror/western, is Mario, a deaf-mute servant who evidently wasn't much help to Zenobia...
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Prison Warden
1949 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Seymour Friedman
Cast Warner Baxter · Anna Lee · Harlan Warde · James Flavin
Synopsis Warner Baxter plays the title role in Columbia's Prison Warden. A well-known reformer, Victor Burnell (Baxter) is put in charge of a prison in dire need of reforming. Meanwhile, Victor's faithless wife Elisa (played by future General Hospital star Anna...
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Shadows in the Night
1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Eugene Forde
Cast Warner Baxter · Nina Foch · George Zucco · Edward Norris
Synopsis A young woman wants Dr. Robert Ordway to help her decipher her strange nightmares.
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The Wrong Road
1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction James Cruze
Cast Richard Cromwell · Helen Mack · Lionel Atwill · Horace McMahon
Synopsis A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they...
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Mona Barrie
Synopsis Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There’ve been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to...
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No Place for a Lady
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast William Gargan · Margaret Lindsay · Phyllis Brooks · Dick Purcell
Synopsis Gargan is a private eye. He uncovers the murder of a wealthy widow and returns some stolen car tires as well.
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast William Gargan · Margaret Lindsay · John Litel · Charley Grapewin
Synopsis Detective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement.
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Heart of the Rockies
1951 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · Penny Edwards · Gordon Jones
Synopsis Roy Rogers, a highway engineer, strongly favors a youth-rehabilitation camp sponsored by retired State Prison Warden Parker where young first-offenders can be reformed without being exposed to penitentiary life. Andrew Willard, through whose range a new highway is being built,...
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Mysterious Intruder
1946 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Richard Dix · Barton MacLane · Nina Vale · Regis Toomey
Synopsis A private detective is hired by the owner of a music store to find a young girl he grew up with. Suspicious as to why someone would pay a lot of money to find someone he hasn't seen in years,...
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Anna May Wong
Synopsis Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.
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