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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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