Screenplay: John Lee Mahin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Lee Mahin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Beast of the City

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Charles Brabin

Cast Walter Huston · Jean Harlow · Wallace Ford · Jean Hersholt

Plot Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.

6.3

58 votes

6.3

58 votes

Test Pilot

1938 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

6.2

201 votes

6.2

201 votes

Chained

1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Otto Kruger · Stuart Erwin

Plot A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

6.2

79 votes

6.2

79 votes

Wife vs. Secretary

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Myrna Loy · May Robson

Plot The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

My Son John

1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Helen Hayes · Van Heflin · Dean Jagger · Robert Walker

Plot Elliott Stein in the Village Voice: "By the early 1950s, McCarey had become a raging rightist and active member of the Society for the Preservation of American Ideals. In his...

6.1

67 votes

6.1

67 votes

Lucy Gallant (Oil Town)

1955 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Jane Wyman · Charlton Heston · Claire Trevor · Thelma Ritter

Plot An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

Moment to Moment

1965 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Jean Seberg · Honor Blackman · Sean Garrison · Arthur Hill

Plot The story of a chance meeting with a stranger... and a startling twist of terror!

5.9

50 votes

5.9

50 votes

The Prizefighter and the Lady

1933 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke · Howard Hawks

Cast Myrna Loy · Max Baer · Primo Carnera · Jack Dempsey

Plot Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by...

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

Small Town Girl

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Robert Taylor · Binnie Barnes · Andy Devine

Plot Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin,...

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

The Spiral Road

1962 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

5.5

208 votes

5.5

208 votes

Adventure

1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

5.4

56 votes

5.4

56 votes

Naughty Marietta

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · Frank Morgan · Douglass Dumbrille

Plot Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain is a beautiful, young, sophisticated French princess of 23, who finds more worth in true love than a title. On the eve of...

5.3

27 votes

5.3

27 votes

The Barbarians

1960 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Jack Palance · Milly Vitale · Deirdre Sullivan · Austin Willis

Plot Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley,...

4.5

69 votes

4.5

69 votes

Hell Below

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Montgomery · Walter Huston · Madge Evans · Jimmy Durante

Plot On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers...

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The Devil Is a Sissy

1936 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Mickey Rooney · Jackie Cooper · Ian Hunter

Plot Claude Pierce is delighted to move in with his father, Jay Pierce, a struggling architect living in lower Manhattan, for the six months the divorce agreement of his parents specified....

Not rated

Not rated

No Time for Sergeants

1958 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Andy Griffith · Myron McCormick · Nick Adams · Murray Hamilton

Plot A hillbilly draftee turns the Air Force upside down.

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Not rated

The Wet Parade

1932 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Dorothy Jordan · Robert Young · Lewis Stone · Walter Huston

Plot The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.

Not rated

Not rated

Love on the Run

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Reginald Owen

Plot In the company of reporter Michael Anthony, American heiress Sally Parker flees her planned wedding to Prince Igor; Sally is unaware of Mike's detestable occupation. The two steal an airplane...

Not rated

Not rated

Love That Brute

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Paul Douglas · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Keenan Wynn

Plot In 1928, Big Ed Hanley, boss of a gang of Chicago racketeers, has money and power, but he is bored. Watching some kids play in the park, he sees Ruth...

Not rated

Not rated

Combat America

1943 · Documentary · 62 min. · United States

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Not rated