Screenplay: Bartlett Cormack

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


Fury

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Plot This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

The Front Page

1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame...

Max

6.7

295 votes

6.7

295 votes

The Racket

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Lizabeth Scott · Robert Ryan · William Talman

Plot The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to...

6.5

573 votes

6.5

573 votes

The Racket

1928 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Thomas Meighan · Louis Wolheim · Marie Prevost · Pat Collins

Plot Captain McQuigg (Thomas Meighan), an honest Irish cop in Chicago, is targeted by a gunsel under the direction of bootlegger Nick Scarsi, but the gunman deliberately misses and Scarsi informs...

6.3

88 votes

6.3

88 votes

Four Frightened People

1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Claudette Colbert · Herbert Marshall · Mary Boland · William Gargan

Plot Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild...

5.9

33 votes

5.9

33 votes

Thirteen Women

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Irene Dunne · Ricardo Cortez · Jill Esmond · Myrna Loy

Plot Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and...

5.6

101 votes

5.6

101 votes

The Phantom of Crestwood

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Anita Louise · Karen Morley · Pauline Frederick

Plot Jenny Wren coerces banker Priam Andes to have a dinner party at his shorefront estate Crestwood, and instructs him to invite three other men, each of whom she plans to...

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Orchids to You

1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast John Boles · Jean Muir · Charles Butterworth · Ruthelma Stevens

Plot An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

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King of Burlesque

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Warner Baxter · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · Mona Barrie

Plot Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.

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The Benson Murder Case

1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · William Boyd · Eugene Pallette · Paul Lukas

Plot A murder takes place virtually in front of Philo Vance's eyes which, for all intents and purposes, should mean that even Sergeant Heath could solve it and Philo can go...

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Unholy Partners

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Laraine Day · Edward Arnold · Marsha Hunt

Plot A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.

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This Day and Age

1933 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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The Trumpet Blows

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast George Raft · Adolphe Menjou · Frances Drake · Sidney Toler

Plot In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the...

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The Greene Murder Case

1929 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast William Powell · Florence Eldridge · Ulrich Haupt · Jean Arthur

Plot At the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise...

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Vessel of Wrath (The Beachcomber)

1938 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Erich Pommer

Cast Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester · Robert Newton · Tyrone Guthrie

Plot Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson (Charles Laughton) a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones,(Elsa Lanchester) a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and...

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The Laughing Lady

1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Doubting Thomas

1935 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Will Rogers · Billie Burke · Alison Skipworth · Sterling Holloway

Plot A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also...

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Kick In

1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Clara Bow · Regis Toomey · Wynne Gibson · Juliette Compton

Plot Ex-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.

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Woman Trap

1929 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

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The Spoilers

1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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