Screenplay: John Colton

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


7.0

46 votes

The Shanghai Gesture

1941 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Plot Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in...

6.8

826 votes

6.8

826 votes

The Divine Woman

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Greta Garbo · Lars Hanson · Lowell Sherman · Polly Moran

Plot The Divine Woman (1928) is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute...

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

Wild Orchids

1929 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Greta Garbo · Lewis Stone · Nils Asther · Dick Sutherland

Plot A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

6.3

39 votes

6.3

39 votes

Werewolf of London

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Henry Hull · Valerie Hobson · Warner Oland · Spring Byington

Plot Botanist Dr Wilfred Glendon goes on an expedition into the Himalayas in search of the marifisa lupina lumina, a rare orchid that only blooms by moonlight. He finds the marifisa...

6.1

365 votes

6.1

365 votes

The Invisible Ray

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Frances Drake · Frank Lawton

Plot A scientist becomes contaminated resulting in the death of anything he touches.

6.0

122 votes

6.0

122 votes

Shanghai Lady

1929 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Mary Nolan · Lydia Yeamans Titus · James Murray · Wheeler Oakman

Plot Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his...

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All Dolled Up

1921 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

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Captain Salvation

1927 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Lars Hanson · Marceline Day · Pauline Starke · George Fawcett

Plot A returning seminary student goes up against a small New England town when he comes to the aid of a prostitute who has been injured, despite the townspeople's calls for...

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Drifting

1923 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Priscilla Dean · Matt Moore · Wallace Beery · J. Farrell MacDonald

Plot In Shanghai, an American girl smuggling opium is put under surveillance by an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she determines to get...

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The Rogue Song

1930 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Lionel Barrymore

Cast Lawrence Tibbett · Catherine Dale Owen · Nance O'Neil · Judith Vosselli

Plot Russia, 1910. Yegor, a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera at a mountain inn. They end up falling in love, but the relationship is shattered when...

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The Cossacks

1928 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction George W. Hill · Clarence Brown

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Ernest Torrence · Nils Asther

Plot Lukashka is the son of a fierce Cossack chief, but he would rather relax in the woods or flirt with his sweetheart Maryana than go to battle with the neighboring...

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The Cuban Love Song

1931 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Lawrence Tibbett · Lupe Velez · Ernest Torrence · Jimmy Durante

Plot A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.

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Call of the Flesh

1930 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Charles Brabin

Cast Ramon Novarro · Dorothy Jordan · Ernest Torrence · Nance O'Neil

Plot In Seville, a novice (Dorothy Jordan) falls in love with the singer (Ramón Novarro) from the cantina who plays every night next to the convent and decides to run away...

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Laughing Boy

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Ramon Novarro · Lupe Velez · William B. Davidson · Chief Thunderbird

Plot Laughing Boy, is a Navaho from a remote part of the reservation, while Slim Girl was raised by whites in a town and lives as a white man's mistress. They...

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