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
Direction Robert Mulligan
Cast Rock Hudson · Gena Rowlands · Burl Ives · Geoffrey Keen
5.5
208 votes
5.5
208 votes
Adventure
1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Clark Gable · Greer Garson · Joan Blondell · Thomas Mitchell
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....
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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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Combat America
1943 · Documentary · 62 min. · United States
Cast Clark Gable · Bob Hope · Frances Langford · Jack Pepper
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