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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