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
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Richard Dix · Mary Astor · Robert Armstrong · Dorothy Jordan
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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