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...
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
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Charles Bickford · Richard Cromwell · Judith Allen · Harry Green
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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
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Clive Brook · Dan Healy · Nat Pendleton
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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
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Hal Skelly · Chester Morris · Evelyn Brent · William B. Davidson
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The Spoilers
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Edwin Carewe
Cast Gary Cooper · Kay Johnson · Betty Compson · William Boyd
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