Screenplay: Claude Binyon

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


If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

No Time for Love

1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Ilka Chase · Richard Haydn

Plot It tells the story of an engineer Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) and a female photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert), who gets him fired from a tunneling job. She feels responsible...

6.6

223 votes

6.6

223 votes

North to Alaska

1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs

Plot Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Take a Letter, Darling

1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Rosalind Russell · Fred MacMurray · Macdonald Carey · Constance Moore

Plot Struggling painter Tom Verney (Fred MacMurray) takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive, A. M. MacGregor (Rosalind Russell). While working to obtain an account from a...

6.5

181 votes

6.5

181 votes

Holiday Inn

1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bing Crosby · Fred Astaire · Marjorie Reynolds · Virginia Dale

Plot Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the...

6.3

230 votes

6.3

230 votes

Woman's World

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · June Allyson · Van Heflin · Lauren Bacall

Plot Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples...

6.1

116 votes

6.1

116 votes

Too Many Husbands

1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Jean Arthur · Fred MacMurray · Melvyn Douglas · Harry Davenport

Plot It's been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. When Bill...

6.0

82 votes

6.0

82 votes

True Confession

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · John Barrymore · Una Merkel

Plot Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when...

6.0

53 votes

6.0

53 votes

The Princess Comes Across

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Douglass Dumbrille · Alison Skipworth

Plot A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

The Saxon Charm

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Claude Binyon

Cast Robert Montgomery · Susan Hayward · John Payne · Audrey Totter

Plot Successful novelist Eric Busch has written his first play and becomes involved with parasitic theatrical producer Matt Saxon. The association nearly ruins his entire life including his marriage. Montgomery gives...

5.8

35 votes

5.8

35 votes

Arizona

1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Jean Arthur · William Holden · Warren William · Porter Hall

Plot Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie...

5.8

96 votes

5.8

96 votes

Satan Never Sleeps

1962 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast William Holden · Clifton Webb · France Nuyen · Athene Seyler

Plot A priest (William Holden) arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing...

5.7

97 votes

5.7

97 votes

You Belong to Me

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Edgar Buchanan · Roger Clark

Plot On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that...

5.6

50 votes

5.6

50 votes

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

1958 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Joan Collins · Jack Carson

Plot A conventional couple living in the suburbs find their marriage strained when a temptress threatens their Rockwellian picture. Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this...

5.5

239 votes

5.5

239 votes

Ladies Should Listen

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Cary Grant · Frances Drake · Edward Everett Horton · Rosita Moreno

Plot The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she...

5.2

27 votes

5.2

27 votes

Pepe

1960 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Dan Dailey · Shirley Jones · Vicki Trickett

Plot The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the...

5.1

286 votes

5.1

286 votes

Kisses for My President

1964 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Fred MacMurray · Polly Bergen · Eli Wallach · Arlene Dahl

Plot When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad NcCloud....

5.0

37 votes

5.0

37 votes

This Is the Army

1943 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast George Murphy · Joan Leslie · George Tobias · Ronald Reagan

Plot In WW I dancer Jerry Jones (George Murphy) stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

4.2

33 votes

4.2

33 votes

Incendiary Blonde

1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Betty Hutton · Arturo de Córdova · Charles Ruggles · Albert Dekker

Plot The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way,...

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Invitation to Happiness

1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred MacMurray · Charles Ruggles · Billy Cook

Plot Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor...

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Not rated