Screenplay: John Colton
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Colton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
White Shadows in the South Seas
1928 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke · Robert J. Flaherty
Cast Monte Blue · Raquel Torres · Robert Anderson · Renee Bush
7.0
46 votes
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
Direction Rollin S. Sturgeon
Cast Gladys Walton · Edward Hearn · Richard Norton · Florence Turner
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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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