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...
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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
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Sally O'Neil · Paul Page · Wilfred Lucas · Fred Kelsey
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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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