Screenplay: A.P. Younger
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by A.P. Younger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927 · Movie · 144 min. · United States
Direction Harry A. Pollard
Cast James B. Lowe · Virginia Grey · George Siegmann · Margarita Fischer
Plot This is perhaps the best film adaption of the classic Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. One of the more expensive films for the time, a price tag of 1.8 million dollars,...
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The Latest from Paris
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Norma Shearer · George Sidney · Ralph Forbes · Tenen Holtz
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While the City Sleeps
1928 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Lon Chaney · Anita Page · Carroll Nye · Wheeler Oakman
Plot A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the...
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All Dolled Up
1921 · Movie · 48 min. · United States
Direction Rollin S. Sturgeon
Cast Gladys Walton · Edward Hearn · Richard Norton · Florence Turner
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Twelve Miles Out
1927 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast John Gilbert · Ernest Torrence · Joan Crawford · Eileen Percy
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Brown of Harvard
1926 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast William Haines · Jack Pickford · Mary Brian · Ralph Bushman
Plot Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections...
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast William Haines · Sally O'Neil · Harry Carey · Frank Coghlan Jr.
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Sunny Skies
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Benny Rubin · Marceline Day · Rex Lease · Marjorie Kane
Plot Rex Lease is the football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life..but his naive comical roommate (Benny Rubin) remains his steadfast supporter....
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Husbands and Lovers
1924 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Lewis Stone · Florence Vidor · Dale Fuller · Winter Hall
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Why Men Leave Home
1924 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Lewis Stone · Helene Chadwick · Mary Carr · William V. Mong
Plot John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John,...
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In Old Kentucky
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast James Murray · Helene Costello · Wesley Barry · Dorothy Cumming
Plot Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely...
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Five and Ten
1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Marion Davies · Leslie Howard · Richard Bennett · Irene Rich
Plot John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is...
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Drifting
1923 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Priscilla Dean · Matt Moore · Wallace Beery · J. Farrell MacDonald
Plot In Shanghai, an American girl smuggling opium is put under surveillance by an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she determines to get...
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Adventure
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Tom Moore · Pauline Starke · Wallace Beery · Raymond Hatton
Plot David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of...
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
1928 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast William Haines · Lionel Barrymore · Leila Hyams · Karl Dane
Plot Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls...
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College Days
1926 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Marceline Day · Charles Delaney · James Harrison · Duane Thompson
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A Lady of Chance
1928 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Norma Shearer · Lowell Sherman · Gwen Lee · Johnny Mack Brown
Plot Dolly, alias "Angel Face," meets a naive young man at a hotel who appears to be rich. Thinking she's found an easy mark, she marries him, only to find out...
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The Girl Said No
1930 · Movie · 33 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast William Haines · Leila Hyams · Polly Moran · Marie Dressler
Plot A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.
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Sally
1929 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Marilyn Miller · Alexander Gray · Joe E. Brown · T. Roy Barnes
Plot Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing.
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Tillie the Toiler
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Russ Westover · Hobart Henley
Cast Marion Davies · Matt Moore · Harry Crocker · George Fawcett
Plot Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins’s company...
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