Screenplay: Jack DeWitt
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jack DeWitt. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
International Lady
1941 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast George Brent · Ilona Massey · Basil Rathbone · Gene Lockhart
Plot London, at the beginning of the Second World War. Following a chance meeting two special agents, Tim Hanley, an American, and Reggie Oliver, an Englishman, join efforts to trap Carla...
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Oregon Passage
1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Paul Landres
Cast John Ericson · Lola Albright · Toni Gerry · Edward Platt
Plot An army officer tries to help the Indians placed in his charge, but finds himself interfering with their way of life.
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Son of Belle Starr
1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Keith Larsen · Dona Drake · Peggie Castle · Regis Toomey
Plot The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Dorothy Lamour · Richard Denning · Jack Haley · Patricia Morison
Plot A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she...
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Cell 2455 Death Row
1955 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Fred F. Sears
Cast William Campbell · R. Wright Campbell · Marian Carr · Kathryn Grant
Plot Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a...
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Wolf Larsen
1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Harmon Jones
Cast Barry Sullivan · Peter Graves · Gita Hall · Thayer David
Plot A crazed, tyrannical, but cultured sea captain holds a ship's crew and passengers in an iron grip. During a titanic storm, at last the passengers break free.
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Portland Exposé
1957 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Edward Binns · Carolyn Craig · Virginia Gregg · Russ Conway
Plot A tavern owner in Portland, Oregon gets involved in a struggle for power between two gangs attempting to control the unions. When his young daughter is attacked by one of...
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The Highwayman
1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Philip Friend · Wanda Hendrix · Charles Coburn · Cecil Kellaway
Plot Filmization of famous poem, involving innkeeper's daughter in love with nobleman who masquerades as bandit to help the oppressed; set in 1760s England.
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The Purple Gang
1959 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Barry Sullivan · Robert Blake · Elaine Edwards · Marc Cavell
Plot A teen-age rat pack of the Detroit slums, the Purple Gang, headed by psychotic William Joseph "Honeyboy" Willard, teams with adult hijackers during prohibition and in three years controls the...
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Big Town (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Mark Stevens · Charles F. Haas · Busby Berkeley · David Lowell Rich
Cast Patrick McVey · Mark Stevens · Jane Nigh · Mary K. Wells
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The Lost Volcano
1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Ford Beebe
Cast Johnny Sheffield · Donald Woods · Marjorie Lord · John Ridgely
Plot Hunting guides have kidnapped David and will force him to lead them to a lost city hidden in the center of an active volcano. Bomba the Jungle Boy arrives to...
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The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Louis Hayward · Patricia Medina · Suzanne Dalbert · Tom Tully
Plot While escaping from the police, English highwayman Dick Turpin meets Joyce Greene. They marry and Turpin settles down to respectability until his mother-in-law discovers he is the famous outlaw. He...
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The Bamboo Prison
1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Robert Francis · Dianne Foster · Brian Keith · Jerome Courtland
Plot American prisoners delivered to a Korean POW camp encounter the cruelty of the communist guards, the treachery of a collaborator Master Sergeant (Robert Francis), and spies placed among them by...
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