Screenplay: Lynn Riggs

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


The Plainsman

1936 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Plot With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using...

6.6

726 votes

6.6

726 votes

Oklahoma!

1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Plot Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting...

6.3

466 votes

6.3

466 votes

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Marjorie Lord · Henry Daniell

Plot In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

6.1

358 votes

6.1

358 votes

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Evelyn Ankers · Reginald Denny

Plot England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. The warn of acts of terror in England, just before...

5.8

490 votes

5.8

490 votes

The Garden of Allah

1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Charles Boyer · Basil Rathbone · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles...

5.6

286 votes

5.6

286 votes

Stingaree

1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Irene Dunne · Richard Dix · Mary Boland · Conway Tearle

Plot In 1874, in the Australian outback, police inspector Radford chats with wealthy sheepman Hugh Clarkson and his wife about Stingaree, the country's prized outlaw. Everyone, including Hilda Bouverie, the Clarkson's...

4.9

21 votes

4.9

21 votes

Beyond Victory

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson · Edward H. Griffith

Cast William Boyd · James Gleason · Lew Cody · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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Madame Spy

1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Constance Bennett · Don Porter · John Litel · Edward Brophy

Plot In Russia, Joan, marries globe-trotting reporter David Nabbister. Enroute to America, their ship is sunk but the newlyweds escape in a lifeboat with another passenger, Carl Gordon. David is welcomed...

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Not rated