Screenplay: Lou Breslow

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


High Tension

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood

Plot Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

7.3

25 votes

7.3

25 votes

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

Great Guns

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Monty Banks

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sheila Ryan · Dick Nelson

Plot Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sheila Ryan · John Shelton

Plot The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance....

6.0

71 votes

6.0

71 votes

Sleepers West

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Lynn Bari · Mary Beth Hughes · Louis Jean Heydt

Plot Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

On Our Merry Way

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...

5.7

524 votes

5.7

524 votes

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

1945 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

5.6

52 votes

5.6

52 votes

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Peter Lorre · Rochelle Hudson · Robert Kent · J. Edward Bromberg

Plot In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the...

5.4

23 votes

5.4

23 votes

Follow the Boys

1944 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast George Raft · Vera Zorina · Grace McDonald · Charley Grapewin

Plot During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as...

5.3

25 votes

5.3

25 votes

Never a Dull Moment

1950 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred MacMurray · William Demarest · Andy Devine

Plot Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they...

5.0

23 votes

5.0

23 votes

Bedtime for Bonzo

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

4.7

24 votes

4.7

24 votes

Gift of Gab

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Edmund Lowe · Gloria Stuart · Ruth Etting · Phil Baker

Plot Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

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Paddy O'Day

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Jane Withers · Pinky Tomlin · Rita Hayworth · Jane Darwell

Plot Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against...

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Blondie Goes to College

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Frank R. Strayer

Cast Penny Singleton · Arthur Lake · Larry Simms · Janet Blair

Plot Dagwood decides to go to college. Blondie goes along with him, keeping their marriage a secret. They send Baby Dumpling off to military school where he becomes top sergeant. Blondie...

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Midnight Taxi

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Brian Donlevy · Frances Drake · Alan Dinehart · Sig Ruman

Plot G-Man Chick Gardner, posing as a taxi driver, convinces the members of a counterfeiting gang that he is on their side and is taken into the organization by Philip Strickland,...

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Something to Shout About

1943 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Don Ameche · Janet Blair · Jack Oakie · William Gaxton

Plot Following three flops in a row, Broadway stage producer Willard Samson is told by wealthy divorcée Donna Davis that she will finance a show but only if she is the...

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Shooting High

1940 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Reunion in Reno

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Mark Stevens · Peggy Dow · Gigi Perreau · Frances Dee

Plot A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents.

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Sitting Pretty

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Joe Brown

Cast Jack Oakie · Jack Haley · Ginger Rogers · Gregory Ratoff

Plot Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters that are en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Dorothy, a lunch wagon proprietor, joins them.

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One Mile from Heaven

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Claire Trevor · Sally Blane · Douglas Fowley · Fredi Washington

Plot A newspaper woman believes she has a Scoop when she finds a 'Quadroon-Mulatto' woman who is thought by all to be the mother of a 'White' child.

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Not rated