Screenplay: Robert Presnell Sr

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


Meet John Doe

1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Plot Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

Employees' Entrance

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Warren William · Loretta Young · Wallace Ford · Alice White

Plot Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying...

7.0

48 votes

7.0

48 votes

The Real Glory

1939 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · David Niven · Broderick Crawford · Reginald Owen

Plot In 1906 the American army pulls out of Manila leaving a handful of officers to try and get the Philippines Constabulary into shape to protect the native population from ruthless...

6.8

863 votes

6.8

863 votes

The Lost Squadron

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

The Kennel Murder Case

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Mary Astor · Eugene Pallette · Ralph Morgan

Plot Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been...

5.8

256 votes

5.8

256 votes

Second Chance

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Robert Mitchum · Linda Darnell · Jack Palance · Roy Roberts

Plot Claire Sinclair is hiding in Mexico to avoid testifying against her gangster boyfriend. Her seclusion is made difficult by Cappy Gordon, a mob strongman out to kill her unless she...

5.4

187 votes

5.4

187 votes

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bette Davis · Lewis Stone · Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell

Plot Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him...

5.2

42 votes

5.2

42 votes

High Tide

1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Reinhardt

Cast Lee Tracy · Don Castle · Julie Bishop · Annabel Shaw

Plot A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the...

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Thou Shalt Not Kill

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Charles Bickford · Owen Davis Jr. · Doris Day · Paul Guilfoyle

Plot A minister (Charles Bickford) hears something that could save a young man (Owen Davis Jr.) convicted of murder.

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Money and the Woman

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Jeffrey Lynn · Brenda Marshall · John Litel · Lee Patrick

Plot The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in...

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The Narrow Corner

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Patricia Ellis · Ralph Bellamy · Dudley Digges

Plot Fred, an Englishmen, (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) , wanted for murder, winds up on a fishing boat in The South Seas, run by Nichols. ( Arther Nohl). Also present is the...

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The Big Bonanza

1944 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Richard Arlen · Robert Livingston · Jane Frazee · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Plot Captain Jed Kelton (Richard Arlen), Union Army officer, unfairly tried for cowardice in battle during the Civil War, escapes from custody while being transported to Fort Leavenport in Kansas. After...

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Singapore Woman

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Brenda Marshall · David Bruce · Virginia Field · Jerome Cowan

Plot This remake of Dangerous is set in Singapore and chronicles the exploits of a woman who believes herself cursed. To recover, she is taken to the rubber plantation of a...

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The Man Called Back

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Conrad Nagel · Doris Kenyon · John Halliday · Juliette Compton

Plot A disgraced doctor (Nagel) exiles himself to the South Seas, and is rehabilitated by meeting a society woman (Kenyon) and her irresponsible husband (Halliday).

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Terror Aboard

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast John Halliday · Charles Ruggles · Shirley Grey · Neil Hamilton

Plot An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

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For You I Die

1947 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John Reinhardt

Cast Cathy Downs · Paul Langton · Mischa Auer · Roman Bohnen

Plot A young convict, Johnny Coulter, serving as a trusty and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the...

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The Keyhole

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Glenda Farrell · Monroe Owsley

Plot Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce....

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Attack! Battle of New Britain

1944 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States

Cast Leo Genn · Burgess Meredith · Anthony Veiller · Walter Krueger

Plot Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War...

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Disbarred

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Gail Patrick · Robert Preston · Otto Kruger · Sidney Toler

Plot The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed...

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Michigan Kid

1947 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ray Taylor

Cast Jon Hall · Victor McLaglen · Rita Johnson · Andy Devine

Plot Jim Rowan, after his discharge from the U.S. Calvary at the end of the Sioux Wars, seeks peace and security on an Arizona cattle ranch. But his arrival coincides with...

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