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

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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

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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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