Screenplay: Robert Yost

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


Dante's Inferno

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Trevor · Henry B. Walthall · Alan Dinehart

Plot Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betting along the way. An inspector calls the...

6.2

84 votes

6.2

84 votes

Born to the West

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast John Wayne · Marsha Hunt · Johnny Mack Brown · John Patterson

Plot Dare Rudd (John Wayne) takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend, Judy (Marsha Hunt) who asks Tom (Johnny Mack Brown) to hire Dare to head the big cattle...

4.7

29 votes

4.7

29 votes

The Arizona Raiders

1936 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

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Drift Fence

1936 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Otho Lovering

Cast Buster Crabbe · Katherine DeMille · Tom Keene · Benny Baker

Plot Tenderfoot Trask gets rodeo champ Travis to take his place as the new owner of a ranch having trouble with rustlers. To stop the rustling Travis and his men build...

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Young Buffalo Bill

1940 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

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Tip-Off Girls

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Mary Carlisle · Lloyd Nolan · Roscoe Karns · Buster Crabbe

Plot A gang of racketeers are using girl hitch-hikers and waitresses at greasy-spoon roadside cafés and truck-stops, to tip them off about valuable shipments and cargo's they can hijack. The federal...

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Grand Jury Secrets

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast John Howard · Gail Patrick · William Frawley · Jane Darwell

Plot A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.

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Forgotten Faces

1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Herbert Marshall · Gertrude Michael · James Burke · Robert Cummings

Plot Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry...

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Let's Make a Million

1936 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Charlotte Wynters · Porter Hall · J.M. Kerrigan

Plot A soldier invests his bonus in a phoney oilfield, but retrieves his money by being the only person to strike oil.

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Desert Gold

1936 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Buster Crabbe · Robert Cummings · Marsha Hunt · Tom Keene

Plot Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine....

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The Preview Murder Mystery

1936 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Reginald Denny · Frances Drake · Gail Patrick · Rod La Rocque

Plot A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.

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The Three Mesquiteers (TV Series)

1936 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ray Taylor · Joseph Kane · Sam Newfield · Mack V. Wright

Cast Robert Livingston · John Wayne · Ralph Byrd · Tom Tyler

Plot The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a series of 51 B-Western movies released between 1936 and 1943. The name was a play on The Three Musketeers, and each...

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Thunder Trail

1937 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Gilbert Roland · Charles Bickford · Marsha Hunt · J. Carrol Naish

Plot When a wagon team headed by John Ames (William Duncan),loaded with gold and heading for California, is ambushed by Lee Tate (Charles Bickford) and his renegades, only Dick Ames (Gene...

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Prison Farm

1938 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Shirley Ross · Lloyd Nolan · John Howard · J. Carrol Naish

Plot Disregarding the advice if her friends and against her own better judgment, working girl Jean Forest keeps company with Larry Harrison, a small-time hoodlum, helps him out of jams he...

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Illegal Traffic

1938 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Mary Carlisle · J. Carrol Naish · Robert Preston · Judith Barrett

Plot G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their...

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Arizona Mahoney

1936 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Joe Cook · Robert Cummings · June Martel · Buster Crabbe

Plot When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle. When he and his men are outnumbered fighting Lloyd's gang, Randall rides to...

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