Screenplay: Joseph O'Donell

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joseph O'Donell. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Murder by Television

1935 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Clifford Sanforth

Cast Bela Lugosi · June Collyer · Huntley Gordon · George Meeker

Plot James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send...

4.3

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4.3

31 votes

King of the Texas Rangers

1941 · Movie · 215 min. · United States

Direction John English · William Witney

Cast Sammy Baugh · Neil Hamilton · Pauline Moore · Duncan Renaldo

Plot When Captain King of the Texas Rangers is murdered by saboteurs, his son, Tom ("Slingin' Sammy Baugh"), a famous football star, leaves college and joins the Texas Rangers himself.

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The Moth

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

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Secret Agent X-9

1945 · Movie · 246 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins · Ray Taylor

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Keye Luke · Jan Wiley · Victoria Horne

Plot American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

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G-Men vs. The Black Dragon

1943 · Movie · 243 min. · United States

Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · William Witney

Cast Rod Cameron · Roland Got · Constance Worth · Nino Pipitone

Plot American, British and Chinese secret agents battle the Japanese Black Dragon Society, a secretive ring that smuggles enemy agents into the U.S. disguised as mummies.

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Daredevils of the West

1943 · Movie · 196 min. · United States

Direction John English

Cast Allan Lane · Kay Aldridge · Eddie Acuff · William Haade

Plot Foster (Charles Miller (IV), owner of the local stagecoach line in Canyon City in the 1880s, has received a Federal Franchise Commission grant and is rushing to complete a new...

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Spy Smasher (TV Miniseries)

1942 · Series · 215 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Kane Richmond · Marguerite Chapman · Sam Flint · Hans Schumm

Plot Alan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America.

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King of the Mounties

1942 · Movie · 196 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Allan Lane · Gilbert Emery · Russell Hicks · Peggy Drake

Plot King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane...

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.

1941 · Movie · 263 min. · United States

Direction John English · William Witney

Cast Ralph Byrd · Michael Owen · Jan Wiley · John Davidson

Plot Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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Perils of Nyoka (TV Miniseries)

1942 · Series · 261 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Kay Aldridge · Clayton Moore · William 'Billy' Benedict · Lorna Gray

Plot It's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.

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Aces and Eights

1936 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast Tim McCoy · Luana Walters · Rex Lease · Wheeler Oakman

Plot Harden and Morgan are after Hernandez's rancho. They lend money to his son Jose which is then won back in a crooked poker game. But the notorious card sharp Tim...

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Born to Fight

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Charles Hutchison

Cast Frankie Darro · Kane Richmond · Jack La Rue · Frances Grant

Plot An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.

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Billy the Kid Trapped

1942 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast Buster Crabbe · Al St. John · Malcolm Bud' McTaggart · Anne Jeffreys

Plot Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders...

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Secret Service in Darkest Africa

1943 · Movie · 243 min. · United States

Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet

Cast Rod Cameron · Joan Marsh · Duncan Renaldo · Lionel Royce

Plot American secret service agent Rex Bennett (Rod Cameron) is assigned to defeat the plans of the Nazis to form an alliance in Africa with the Arabs. His aides are Janet...

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