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

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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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