Screenplay: Edmund L. Hartmann

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


Sweetheart of the Campus

1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Ruby Keeler · Ozzie Nelson · Harriet Hilliard · Gordon Oliver

Plot Ozzie Norton and his band, featuring Betty Blake of Brooklyn, prepare for the opening of the College Club, a nightclub near the campus of Lambeth Technological . On opening night,...

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The Face of Marble

1946 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast John Carradine · Claudia Drake · Robert Shayne · Maris Wrixon

Plot Totally engrossed in his project to bring the dead back to life, Dr. Randolph fails to notice his wife Elaine's interest in Randolph's young lab partner, Dr. Cochran. Ancient housekeeper...

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The Naughty Nineties

1945 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Alan Curtis · Rita Johnson

Plot In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor...

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To Rome with Love (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joan O'Brien · Earl Bellamy · Charles Barton · Frederick de Cordova

Cast John Forsythe · Joyce Menges · Susan Neher · Melanie Fullerton

Plot After his wife dies, Michael Endicott leaves Iowa with his three daughters to accept a teaching position at the American Overseas School in Rome, Italy. His sister, Harriet Endicott also...

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China Passage

1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edward Killy

Cast Gordon Jones · Vinton Hayworth · Constance Worth · Leslie Fenton

Plot Two American's, Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan, are assigned to guard a fabulous diamond in Shanghai, and the diamond is promptly taken from them. They know it is being taken...

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Dangerous Partners

1945 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast James Craig · Signe Hasso · Edmund Gwenn · Audrey Totter

Plot After surviving a plane crash, a couple tries to find out why one of the passengers was carrying four wills for a million dollars, with each one naming him as...

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See My Lawyer

1945 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

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Ghost Catchers

1944 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Ole Olsen · Chic Johnson · Gloria Jean · Martha O'Driscoll

Plot Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.

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Big Town Czar

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Barton MacLane · Tom Brown · Eve Arden · Jack La Rue

Plot When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His...

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Without Orders

1936 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Sally Eilers · Robert Armstrong · Frances Sage · Charley Grapewin

Plot The story centers on two pilots (Robert Armstrong and Vinton Haworth) who romance a flight attendant (Sally Eilers) and her sister (Frances Sage).

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Here Come the Co-eds

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Peggy Ryan · Martha O'Driscoll

Plot Slats and Oliver follow Slat’s sister Molly to Bixby College, where they are hired as caretakers. The chairman of the college threatens to foreclose on a mortgage if the school...

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Beauty for the Asking

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Tryon

Cast Lucille Ball · Patric Knowles · Donald Woods · Frieda Inescort

Plot It tells the story of Jean Russell (Ball), who becomes romantically involved with a wealthy married man (Knowles) who later spurns her. She later invents a new facial cream, and...

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Diamond Frontier

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster

Cast Victor McLaglen · John Loder · Anne Nagel · Cecil Kellaway

Plot A man tries to enforce the law in a rowdy South African diamond-mining town.

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The Feminine Touch

1941 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Rosalind Russell · Don Ameche · Kay Francis · Van Heflin

Plot John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. He leaves college to go to New York to have...

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Variety Girl

1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Mary Hatcher · Olga San Juan · DeForest Kelley · Frank Ferguson

Plot Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange...

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The Richard Boone Show (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boone · Robert Gist · Harry Morgan · Robert Butler

Cast Robert Blake · Lloyd Bochner · Richard Boone · Laura Devon

Plot TV Series (1963-1964). 1 seasons. 25 episodes. An anthology series starring Richard Boone as host and actor.

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The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield · Frank Tashlin

Cast Bob Hope · Marilyn Maxwell · Lloyd Nolan · Jane Darwell

Plot When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Fortunately it's...

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Hi Diddle Diddle

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Martha Scott · Pola Negri · Dennis O'Keefe

Plot When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is...

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Let's Live a Little

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Cummings · Anna Sten · Robert Shayne

Plot A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is...

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Law of the Underworld

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Chester Morris · Anne Shirley · Eduardo Ciannelli · Walter Abel

Plot A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution.

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