Screenplay: Harold Shumate

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


The Man with Nine Lives

1940 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Roger Pryo · Jo Ann Sayers · Stanley Brown

Plot Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the...

6.1

41 votes

6.1

41 votes

Saddle Tramp

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Joel McCrea · Wanda Hendrix · John Russell · John McIntire

Plot Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck...

6.0

140 votes

6.0

140 votes

When the Daltons Rode

1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Randolph Scott · Kay Francis · Brian Donlevy · George Bancroft

Plot Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked...

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Heritage of the Desert

1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · J. Farrell MacDonald · David Landau

Plot Nabb controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except Holderness and his stolen cattle. When Nabb refuses to sell, Holderness works an his son Snap who has run...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

The Forest Rangers

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Fred MacMurray · Paulette Goddard · Susan Hayward · Lynne Overman

Plot Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don...

5.8

27 votes

5.8

27 votes

Buccaneer's Girl

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Philip Friend · Robert Douglas · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and...

5.6

108 votes

5.6

108 votes

Man of the Forest

1933 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

5.2

113 votes

5.2

113 votes

Abilene Town

1946 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Randolph Scott · Ann Dvorak · Rhonda Fleming · Edgar Buchanan

Plot In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of...

5.2

106 votes

5.2

106 votes

Renegades

1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Evelyn Keyes · Willard Parker · Larry Parks · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Hannah Brockway, daughter of the leading citizen of Prairie Dog, prosperous insurance man Nathan Brockway, is engaged to be married to Dr. Sam Martin, but she meets and falls in...

5.1

34 votes

5.1

34 votes

Counsel for Crime

1937 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Otto Kruger · Douglass Montgomery · Julie Bishop · Thurston Hall

Plot Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his...

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Man of Conquest

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols Jr.

Cast Richard Dix · Gail Patrick · Edward Ellis · Joan Fontaine

Plot The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

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Panic on the Air

1936 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Lew Ayres · Florence Rice · Benny Baker · Edwin Maxwell

Plot A radio commentator turns sleuth in a case involving kidnap ransom, murder, and a mysterious five dollar bill.

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Scarlet River

1933 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower

Cast Tom Keene · Dorothy Wilson · Lon Chaney Jr. · Betty Furness

Plot Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns her foreman has been...

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Bad Men of Missouri

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dennis Morgan · Jane Wyman · Wayne Morris · Arthur Kennedy

Plot The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy), return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick (Victor...

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Hell-Ship Morgan

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast George Bancroft · Ann Sothern · Victor Jory · George Regas

Plot After getting in a fight in a waterfront café over a girl, Captain Ira "Hell-Ship" Morgan hires Jim Allen and they become good friends. Morgan befriends a desperate girl, Mary...

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Girl in Danger

1934 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Shirley Grey · Arthur Hohl · Charles Sabin

Plot Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

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Pride of the Marines

1936 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Charles Bickford · Bill Burrud · Florence Rice · Robert Allen

Plot Adoption of an orphan boy by a sergeant champion boxer leads to complications but ends happily.

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Through the Breakers

1928 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Boyle

Cast Margaret Livingston · Holmes Herbert · Clyde Cook · Natalie Joyce

Plot An American man on a South Pacific Island receives a dear John letter from his fiancee. A lovely native girl decides to console him. Then, fate washes a woman ashore...

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The Lady from Texas

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Howard Duff · Mona Freeman · Josephine Hull · Gene Lockhart

Plot An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.

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Home on the Range

1935 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Jacobson

Cast Jackie Coogan · Randolph Scott · Evelyn Brent · Dean Jagger

Plot Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too...

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