Screenplay: Prescott Chaplin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Prescott Chaplin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast W.C. Fields · Gloria Jean · Leon Errol · Billy Lenhart
Plot Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress....
6.2
57 votes
6.2
57 votes
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast John Wayne · Ann Dvorak · Joseph Schildkraut · William Frawley
Plot Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Tito, goes home and PL: learns to gamble, and returns. After he...
5.3
43 votes
5.3
43 votes
Island of Lost Women
1959 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Jeff Richards · Venetia Stevenson · John Smith · Diane Jergens
Plot While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne, radio commentator Mark Bradley and his pilot, Joe Walker, are forced to crash land on an uncharted island in the Pacific...
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Woman of the North Country
1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast Rod Cameron · Ruth Hussey · John Agar · Gale Storm
Plot In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range...
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My Buddy
1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Steve Sekely
Cast Don 'Red' Barry · Ruth Terry · Lynne Roberts · Alexander Granach
Plot Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944...
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Private Jones
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler · Russell Mack
Cast Lee Tracy · Gloria Stuart · Donald Cook · Emma Dunn
Plot After America enters World War I, young William “Bill” Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and...
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