Screenplay: Robert N. Lee
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert N. Lee. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Captain Kidd
1945 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Charles Laughton · Randolph Scott · Barbara Britton · John Carradine
Plot In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from...
6.5
947 votes
6.5
947 votes
Tower of London
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Basil Rathbone · Boris Karloff · Barbara O'Neil · Ian Hunter
Plot In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King...
6.1
284 votes
6.1
284 votes
Fog Over Frisco
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Bette Davis · Donald Woods · Margaret Lindsay · Lyle Talbot
Plot Arlene is involved with underworld types. Her society girl sister believes it is only innocent thrill seeking; her stepfather fears it may be more criminal than that. Kidnap and murder...
5.8
102 votes
5.8
102 votes
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast William Powell · Mary Astor · Eugene Pallette · Ralph Morgan
Plot Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been...
5.8
256 votes
5.8
256 votes
Cameo Kirby
1923 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Gilbert · Gertrude Olmstead · Alan Hale · Eric Mayne
Plot Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead),...
4.8
27 votes
4.8
27 votes
The Arizona Express
1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tom Buckingham
Cast Pauline Starke · Evelyn Brent · Anne Cornwall · Harold Goodwin
Plot A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may...
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Armored Car
1937 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast Robert Wilcox · Judith Barrett · Cesar Romero · Irving Pichel
Plot An undercover man helps break a gang planning to rob armoured cars carrying bullion.
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The Dragon Murder Case
1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Warren William · Margaret Lindsay · Lyle Talbot · Eugene Pallette
Plot The Stann family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match.
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The Silver Treasure
1926 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast George O'Brien · Jack Rollens · Helena D'Algy · Joan Renee
Plot Nostromo is the foreman of longshoremen in a South American Republic, and they are to load the cargo of silver that is to come from the San Tome mine. Sotillo...
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From Headquarters
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast George Brent · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette · Robert Barrat
Plot A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead. He was actually a vicious blackmailer. It's up to police lieutenant Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates like...
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The Mighty
1929 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast George Bancroft · Esther Ralston · Warner Oland · Raymond Hatton
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While the Patient Slept
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee · Lyle Talbot · Patricia Ellis
Plot Grandfather is sick and the family and his lawyer gather around waiting for him to die. When he receives a telegram from his disinherited son, Charles, he passes out and...
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Jericho
1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Paul Robeson · Henry Wilcoxon · Wallace Ford · Kouka
Plot During the Great War, a Negro corporal, Jericho Jackson, disobeys an order and saves crewmen trapped below deck after an attack. A sergeant dies in the incident; Jackson is court-martialed...
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The Charlatan
1929 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Holmes Herbert · Margaret Livingston · Rockcliffe Fellowes · Philo McCullough
Plot A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events...
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The Dude Wrangler
1930 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Tom Keene · Lina Basquette · Francis X. Bushman · Clyde Cook
Plot In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly made early...
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The Rough Riders
1927 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Noah Beery · Charles Farrell · George Bancroft · Charles Emmett Mack
Plot The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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70,000 Witnesses
1932 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Phillips Holmes · Dorothy Jordan · Charles Ruggles · Johnny Mack Brown
Plot College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David...
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The Fire Brigade
1926 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast May McAvoy · Charles Ray · Holmes Herbert · Tom O´Brien
Plot Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor,...
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