Screenplay: Howard Estabrook
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Howard Estabrook. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Orchids to You
1935 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast John Boles · Jean Muir · Charles Butterworth · Ruthelma Stevens
Plot An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
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The Masquerader
1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Ronald Colman · Elissa Landi · Juliette Compton · David Torrence
Plot MP John Chilcote is addicted to drugs and its made his already unpleasant personality more so. When he lets down his party in Parliament by botching an important speech he...
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Street of Chance
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · Kay Francis · Regis Toomey
Plot This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young cardsharp goes to see his brother, whom he believes...
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She Goes to War
1929 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Eleanor Boardman · John Holland · Edmund Burns · Alma Rubens
Plot Young Joan disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancé, Tom, into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
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International Lady
1941 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast George Brent · Ilona Massey · Basil Rathbone · Gene Lockhart
Plot London, at the beginning of the Second World War. Following a chance meeting two special agents, Tim Hanley, an American, and Reggie Oliver, an Englishman, join efforts to trap Carla...
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Forgotten Faces
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Clive Brook · Mary Brian · Olga Baclanova · William Powell
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Kismet
1930 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John Francis Dillon
Cast Otis Skinner · Loretta Young · David Manners · Sidney Blackmer
Plot Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle...
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Slightly Scarlet
1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Louis J. Gasnier · Edwin H. Knopf
Cast Evelyn Brent · Clive Brook · Paul Lukas · Eugene Pallette
Plot Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into...
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The Woman Between
1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Lili Damita · Lester Vail · O.P. Heggie · Miriam Seegar
Plot Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
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The Port of Missing Girls
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Barbara Bedford · Hedda Hopper · Malcolm McGregor · George Irving
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Are These Our Children
1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Wesley Ruggles · Howard Estabrook
Cast Eric Linden · Beryl Mercer · Billy Butts · Rochelle Hudson
Plot A good kid with no record commits a robbery, kills an old man and winds up on death row. The authorities try to figure out why he went bad.
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Double Cross Roads
1930 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Robert Ames · Lila Lee · Edythe Chapman · Montagu Love
Plot Ex-con tries to go straight and refuses to take part in a robbery until he finds that the girl he loves is in the gang.
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Dressed to Kill
1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Edmund Lowe · Mary Astor · Ben Bard · Bob Perry
Plot A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite...
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Behind the Make-Up
1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Robert Milton · Dorothy Arzner · Henry Hathaway · Rollo Lloyd
Cast Hal Skelly · William Powell · Fay Wray · Kay Francis
Plot Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and...
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The Girl from Manhattan
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Dorothy Lamour · George Montgomery · Charles Laughton · Ernest Truex
Plot Tom Walker,former All-American fullback who gave up football to enter the ministry, returns to his old home town for his first assignment under the church Bishop , an old friend...
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The Bad Man
1930 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Clarence G. Badger
Cast Walter Huston · Dorothy Revier · James Rennie · O.P. Heggie
Plot Walter Huston plays the part of a notorious Mexican bandit. James Rennie plays as the man who once saved his life. When Rennie is unable to pay the mortgage on...
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