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...

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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

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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

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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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