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
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Richard Dix · Ann Harding · Edna May Oliver · Guy Kibbee
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
The Four Feathers
1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Lothar Mendes · Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast Richard Arlen · Fay Wray · Clive Brook · William Powell
6.3
33 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
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Cornel Wilde · Yvonne De Carlo · Raymond Burr · Lon Chaney Jr.
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
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Sidney Blackmer · Lila Lee · Raymond Hatton · Fred Kohler
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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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