Screenplay: Howard Estabrook

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Howard Estabrook. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


David Copperfield

1935 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young

Plot England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from...

7.0

958 votes

7.0

958 votes

The Bowery

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Wallace Beery · George Raft · Jackie Cooper · Fay Wray

Plot "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as...

6.7

135 votes

6.7

135 votes

Hell's Angels

1930 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hughes

Cast Ben Lyon · James Hall · Jean Harlow · John Darrow

Plot Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities. Monte is a freewheeling womanizer, even with his...

6.6

266 votes

6.6

266 votes

The Conquerors

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Cimarron

1931 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Richard Dix · Irene Dunne · Estelle Taylor · William Collier Jr.

Plot The Best Picture of 1931 chronicles one family's experiences in the restless days of settling the American West. Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of...

6.5

828 votes

6.5

828 votes

6.3

33 votes

The Virginian

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Huston · Mary Brian · Richard Arlen

Plot Molly Wood (Mary Brian) arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian (Gary Cooper), foreman on a local ranch, and Steve, his best fiend, soon...

6.3

147 votes

6.3

147 votes

The Human Comedy

1943 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Mickey Rooney · Frank Morgan · James Craig · Marsha Hunt

Plot Recently-deceased Matthew Macauley looks down upon his family in small-town Ithaca, where eldest son Marcus has departed to await deployment for combat in the Second World War. This leaves middle...

6.2

143 votes

6.2

143 votes

A Bill of Divorcement

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast John Barrymore · Katharine Hepburn · Billie Burke · David Manners

Plot After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. He finds that things at home are different than when he left them....

6.2

398 votes

6.2

398 votes

The Corsican Brothers

1941 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Ruth Warrick · Akim Tamiroff · J. Carrol Naish

Plot Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta, personified by Akim Tamiroff in bolero suits. One...

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

Lone Star

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Broderick Crawford · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic....

6.0

235 votes

6.0

235 votes

Passion

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

5.9

206 votes

5.9

206 votes

Cattle Queen of Montana

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ronald Reagan · Gene Evans · Lance Fuller

Plot The Jones family, about to prove claim to prime Montana land, is raided by renegade Indians in league with villainous neighbor McCord, who gets most of the stolen cattle. Two...

5.6

225 votes

5.6

225 votes

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Lynn Bari · Akim Tamiroff · Francis Lederer · Alla Nazimova

Plot An ancient Inca rope bridge spanning a chasm in the Peruvian Andes collapses, sending five travelers to their deaths in the gorge below. A monk who was nearby, Father Juniper,...

5.6

24 votes

5.6

24 votes

The Big Fisherman

1959 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Howard Keel · Susan Kohner · John Saxon · Martha Hyer

Plot The lush romanticism of director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel) is subsumed by the plodding reverence of producer Rowland V. Lee's screenplay (co-written with Howard Estabrook), based on the...

5.5

43 votes

5.5

43 votes

Dakota

1945 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Wayne · Vera Ralston · Walter Brennan · Ward Bond

Plot Dakota is a 1945 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan. The supporting cast features Ward Bond and Mike Mazurki.

5.2

126 votes

5.2

126 votes

Way Down East

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Rochelle Hudson · Henry Fonda · Slim Summerville · Edward Trevor

Plot A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has...

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Woman Hungry

1931 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Roar of the Dragon

1932 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Richard Dix · Gwili Andre · Edward Everett Horton · Arline Judge

Plot A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the...

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The Devil's in Love

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Victor Jory · Loretta Young · Vivienne Osborne · David Manners

Plot Unjustly convicted of murdering the major who transferred him to another outpost, a doctor makes good his escape then sets out to prove his innocence using another identity.

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Not rated