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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