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
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Jon Hall · Maria Montez · Turhan Bey · Andy Devine
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.
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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...
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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.
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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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