Screenplay: James Ashmore Creelman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
King Kong
1933 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast Fay Wray · Robert Armstrong · Bruce Cabot · Noble Johnson
Plot While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and...
7.3
30K votes
7.3
30K votes
The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong
Plot After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Last Performance
1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Pál Fejös
Cast Conrad Veidt · Mary Philbin · Leslie Fenton · Fred MacKaye
Plot A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a...
6.8
58 votes
6.8
58 votes
The Vagabond Lover
1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Rudy Vallee · Sally Blane · Marie Dressler · Charles Sellon
Plot A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
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The Circus Kid
1928 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Frankie Darro · Poodles Hanneford · Joe E. Brown · Helene Costello
Plot A young waif (Frankie Darro) runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.
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A Man Must Live
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Paul Sloane
Cast Richard Dix · Jacqueline Logan · George Nash · Edna Murphy
Plot Before going to war Geoffrey Farnell falls in love with Eleanor Ross-Fayne, who unbeknowst to him is the sister of his comrade Clive. He thinks the latter is killed in...
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Honor of the Family
1931 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Bebe Daniels · Warren William · Alan Mowbray · Blanche Friderici
Plot In Hungary, Laura, the mistress of wealthy Paul Barony, is furious when his nephew, Captain Boris Barony, arrives at the castle to save his uncle from her. She runs away,...
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Smilin' Through
1922 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Norma Talmadge · Wyndham Standing · Harrison Ford II · Alec B. Francis
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Half Shot at Sunrise
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Paul Sloane
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · George MacFarlane
Plot The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.
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The Untamed Lady
1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Gloria Swanson · Lawrence Gray · Joseph W. Smiley · Charles Graham
Plot A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
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Grit
1924 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Glenn Hunter · Helenka Adamowska · Roland Young · Osgood Perkins
Plot Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart (Hunter) and Orchid McGonigle (Bow), attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness. Eventually, they escape the hardships of...
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Social Register
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland
Plot Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama...
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Danger Lights
1930 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Louis Wolheim · Jean Arthur · Robert Armstrong · Hugh Herbert
Plot The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.
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The Coming of Amos
1925 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Paul Sloane
Cast Rod La Rocque · Jetta Goudal · Noah Beery · Richard Carle
Plot An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera. He meets and falls in love with a Russian princess who...
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The Red Dance
1928 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Dolores del Rio · Charles Farrell · Ivan Linow · Boris Charsky
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Dancers in the Dark
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction David Burton
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack Oakie · William Collier Jr. · Eugene Pallette
Plot A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on...
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Fine Manners
1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Richard Rosson · Lewis Milestone
Cast Gloria Swanson · Eugene O’Brien · Helen Dunbar · Roland Drew
Plot Fine Manners is a 1926 American black-and-white silent comedy film directed initially by Lewis Milestone and completed by Richard Rosson for Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount Pictures. After an argument with actress Gloria...
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East of Java
1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Melford
Cast Charles Bickford · Elizabeth Young · Frank Albertson · Leslie Fenton
Plot Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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