Screenplay: C. Gardner Sullivan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by C. Gardner Sullivan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston
Plot This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union...
6.9
659 votes
6.9
659 votes
Sparrows
1926 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Mary Pickford · Roy Stewart · Mary Louise Miller · Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
6.6
63 votes
6.6
63 votes
Tempest
1928 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast John Barrymore · Camilla Horn · Viktor Tourjansky · Lewis Milestone
Plot In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls...
6.4
61 votes
6.4
61 votes
North West Mounted Police
1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Gary Cooper · Madeleine Carroll · Paulette Goddard · Preston Foster
Plot In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Hell's Hinges
1916 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Charles Swickard · William S. Hart · Clifford Smith
Cast William S. Hart · Clara Williams · Jack Standing · Alfred Hollingsworth
Plot When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire...
6.3
30 votes
6.3
30 votes
The Buccaneer
1938 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Fredric March · Franciska Gaal · Akim Tamiroff · Margot Grahame
Plot During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60...
6.3
101 votes
6.3
101 votes
Tumbleweeds
1925 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction King Baggot · William S. Hart
Cast William S. Hart · Barbara Bedford · Lucien Littlefield · J. Gordon Russell
Plot It's 1889 and the Cherokee Strip is about to be opened to settlers. After cowboy Dan Carver helps move the Box K cattle off the strip he meets Molly Lassiter....
6.2
64 votes
6.2
64 votes
Alibi
1929 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Roland West
Cast Chester Morris · Harry Stubbs · Mae Busch · Eleanore Griffith
Plot Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan,...
6.0
25 votes
6.0
25 votes
Civilization
1916 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Thomas H. Ince · Reginald Barker · Raymond B. West · Walter Edwards
Cast Howard C. Hickman · Enid Markey · Lola May · Herschel Mayall
Plot Allegorical film about peace. A king starts a war, many of the women are against it, people are pressed into service. A count has constructed a submarine and gets the...
5.9
43 votes
5.9
43 votes
Strange Interlude
1932 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan
Plot The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who...
5.4
28 votes
5.4
28 votes
The Wrath of the Gods
1914 · Movie · 57 min. · Japan
Direction Reginald Barker
Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Tsuru Aoki · Kisaburô Kurihara · Frank Borzage
5.4
34 votes
5.4
34 votes
The Invaders
1912 · Movie · 41 min. · United States
Direction Thomas H. Ince · Francis Ford
Cast Francis Ford · Ethel Grandin · Ray Myers · Ann Little
Plot The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to...
5.3
57 votes
5.3
57 votes
The Locked Door
1929 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Rod La Rocque · Barbara Stanwyck · William Boyd · Betty Bronson
Plot While Ann and the son of her boss are out on a ship beyond the 12-mile limit, which allows liquor to be consumed, the son, Frank makes unwanted advances towards...
5.1
23 votes
5.1
23 votes
Soul of the Beast
1923 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction John Griffith Wray
Cast Madge Bellamy · Cullen Landis · Noah Beery · Vola Vale
Plot Ruth, a young girl, runs away from an abusive stepfather, who owns a circus, and takes the circus' trained elephant--her only friend--with her. She winds up in a logging camp...
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The Last of the Line (S)
1914 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Jay Hunt · Thomas H. Ince
Cast Joe Goodboy · Sessue Hayakawa · Tsuru Aoki · Stanely Bigham
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Stepping Out
1919 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Enid Bennett · Niles Welch · Julia Faye · Gertrude Claire
Plot A young wife slaves for her cad of a husband. When she learns that he has been "stepping out" with his secretary, she gets revenge by going after the attentions...
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Skyscraper Souls
1932 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Edgar Selwyn
Cast Warren William · Maureen O'Sullivan · Gregory Ratoff · Anita Page
Plot Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. The most notable character is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner...
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Vive la France!
1918 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Dorothy Dalton · Edmund Lowe · Fred Starr · Tom Guise
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The Pinch Hitter
1917 · Movie · 48 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Charles Ray · Sylvia Breamer · Joseph J. Dowling · Jerome Storm
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In the Sage Brush Country (S)
1914 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction William S. Hart
Cast William S. Hart · Rhea Mitchell · Herschel Mayall · Kisaburô Kurihara
Plot Jim Brandon is a bandit who travels diligently with the daughter of a mine owner with the intention of stealing the money she has hidden to pay the miners. But...
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