Screenplay: Eric Taylor

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


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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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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