Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser

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


The Suspect

1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Charles Laughton · Ella Raines · Henry Daniell · Rosalind Ivan

Plot In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

The Web

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ella Raines · Edmond O'Brien · William Bendix · Vincent Price

Plot Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret...

7.1

145 votes

7.1

145 votes

The Big Shot

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Irene Manning · Richard Travis · Susan Peters

Plot Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to...

6.6

156 votes

6.6

156 votes

They Made Me a Criminal

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast John Garfield · Claude Rains · Ann Sheridan · May Robson

Plot Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New...

6.5

348 votes

6.5

348 votes

Walk a Crooked Mile

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Louis Hayward · Dennis O'Keefe · Louise Allbritton · Carl Esmond

Plot A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation.

6.4

76 votes

6.4

76 votes

The Spider Woman

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gale Sondergaard · Dennis Hoey

Plot Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh,...

6.2

432 votes

6.2

432 votes

The Pearl of Death

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Dennis Hoey · Evelyn Ankers

Plot When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally...

6.2

394 votes

6.2

394 votes

Ever in My Heart

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Otto Kruger · Ralph Bellamy · Ruth Donnelly

Plot In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

1943 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Dennis Hoey · Halliwell Hobbes

Plot During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime...

6.1

368 votes

6.1

368 votes

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Marjorie Lord · Henry Daniell

Plot In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

6.1

358 votes

6.1

358 votes

The Woman in Green

1945 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Hillary Brooke · Henry Daniell

Plot Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious,...

6.0

680 votes

6.0

680 votes

Jimmy the Gent

1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Allen Jenkins · Alan Dinehart

Plot Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect...

5.9

60 votes

5.9

60 votes

Tokyo Joe

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa

Plot An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

5.7

116 votes

5.7

116 votes

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Rita Johnson · Henry Hull · Stanley Ridges

Plot Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

5.6

27 votes

5.6

27 votes

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ford Beebe

Cast Jon Hall · Leon Errol · John Carradine · Alan Curtis

Plot An eager scientist (John Carradine) tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive (Jon Hall). When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he...

5.3

69 votes

5.3

69 votes

Pay or Die

1960 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wilson

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Zohra Lampert · Alan Austin · Renata Vanni

Plot Movie deals with organized crime "protection" rackets. Small shopkeepers are forced to pay for protection or else be brutalized or killed.

Not rated

Not rated

Enter Arsene Lupin

1944 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Ford Beebe

Cast Ella Raines · Charles Korvin · J. Carrol Naish · George Dolenz

Plot A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She doesn't realize it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

Not rated

Not rated

Pierre of the Plains

1942 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Bruce Cabot · Phil Brown

Plot In 1940's Moose Hill, Saskatchewan, outdoorsman Pierre is attracted to saloon-owner Daisy. Hearing of her impending marriage to 'Jap' Durkin, a law officer and rival, Pierre arranges things so the...

Not rated

Not rated

Under Cover of Night

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Edmund Lowe · Florence Rice · Nat Pendleton · Henry Daniell

Plot A crazed, philandering professor prevents his studious wife from leaving him by committing the perfect murder.

Not rated

Not rated

Ebb Tide

1937 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Oskar Homolka · Ray Milland · Frances Farmer · Lloyd Nolan

Plot Three shifty sailors commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic...

Not rated

Not rated