Screenplay: Edmund L. Hartmann

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Claw

1944 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gerald Hamer · Paul Cavanagh

Plot A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of...

6.4

591 votes

6.4

591 votes

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Lionel Atwill · Kaaren Verne

Plot The secret weapon is a new bombsight which could hasten the outcome of World War II, and both the Allies and the Nazis are in a desperate race to secure...

6.0

904 votes

6.0

904 votes

Black Friday

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Stanley Ridges · Anne Nagel

Plot When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster...

5.9

140 votes

5.9

140 votes

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

5.9

733 votes

5.9

733 votes

Family Affair (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Don Fedderson · Edmund L. Hartmann · James Sheldon · Charles Barton

Cast Brian Keith · Kathy Garver · Anissa Jones · Johnny Whitaker

Plot Bill Davis is a single bachelor living in Manhattan with his butler Giles French. He is enjoying his life of freedom until his late brother's three children show up (twins...

5.7

36 votes

5.7

36 votes

The Caddy

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Donna Reed · Barbara Bates

Plot The origin of Anthony and Miller, a wildly successful comedy team, can be traced back several years to Harvey Miller's stage fright on the golf links. Although the son of...

5.7

166 votes

5.7

166 votes

The Man Who Found Himself

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast John Beal · Joan Fontaine · Phillip Huston · Jane Walsh

Plot Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger...

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

The Paleface

1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Jane Russell · Robert Armstrong · Iris Adrian

Plot Bob Hope -in his finest role as Painless Potter- plays a nervous dentist who becomes a gritty gunfighter when he marries Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), a trouble-shooting woman, as a...

5.3

204 votes

5.3

204 votes

Casanova's Big Night

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Joan Fontaine · Audrey Dalton · Basil Rathbone

Plot Italy, 1757. Meek tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what he's getting into: locked into the incongruous...

5.3

39 votes

5.3

39 votes

Sudan

1945 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Turhan Bey · Andy Devine

Plot Young, lovely Naila becomes queen of the ancient Egyptian kingdom of Khemis when her father is killed in a slave revolt. Continuing her penchant for going incognito among the people,...

5.2

102 votes

5.2

102 votes

My Favorite Spy

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss

Plot Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic...

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

The Sword of Ali Baba

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Virgil W. Vogel

Cast Peter Mann · Jocelyn Lane · Frank McGrath · Gavin MacLeod

Plot As the Mongols invade Baghdad in 1258 the Caliph escapes the city and heads to Basra with his young son, Ali. The Mongols catch the Caliph and he is killed...

4.6

29 votes

4.6

29 votes

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Alan Rafkin

Cast Don Knotts · Barbara Rhoades · Jackie Coogan · Don 'Red' Barry

Plot Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west "to fight oral ignorance." Meanwhile stagecoach robber Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing is offered a pardon if...

4.3

29 votes

4.3

29 votes

San Francisco Docks

1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Burgess Meredith · Irene Hervey · Barry Fitzgerald · Raymond Walburn

Plot Barmaid in seedy docks does better detective work than the police to get her beau off a murder accusation, helped by a good priest who proves to be a good...

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True to the Army

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Judy Canova · Allan Jones · Ann Miller · Jerry Colonna

Plot She's a high wire walker whose witness to a murder and seeks refuge at her boyfriend's army camp as the most unconvincing man imaginable.

Not rated

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Fancy Pants

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Bruce Cabot · Jack Kirkwood

Plot An American actor (Arthur Tyler) impersonating an English butler is hired by a nouveau riche woman (Effie Floud) from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter (Aggie). The...

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Behind the Headlines

1937 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Richard Rosson

Cast Lee Tracy · Diana Gibson · Phillip Huston · Paul Guilfoyle

Plot Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary...

Not rated

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Ex-Champ

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Victor McLaglen · Tom Brown · Nan Grey · William Frawley

Plot A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

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Enemy Agent

1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Richard Cromwell · Helen Vinson · Robert Armstrong · Marjorie Reynolds

Plot A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

Not rated

Not rated

Sorrowful Jones

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · William Demarest · Bruce Cabot

Plot A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child...

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Not rated