Screenplay: Warren Duff
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Warren Duff. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 48
Angels With Dirty Faces
1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan
Synopsis Gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) returns from prison to make a name for himself in the crime world. He's soon discovered by the Dead End Kids, who idolize him, and childhood pal Father Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien). The good Father...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
Each Dawn I Die
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast James Cagney · George Raft · Jane Bryan · George Bancroft
Synopsis Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns into bitterness....
6.8
301 votes
6.8
301 votes
The Turning Point
1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast William Holden · Edmond O'Brien · Alexis Smith · Tom Tully
Synopsis John Conroy, a crusading district attorney is tasked to crack down on a crime syndicate, which proves more dangerous because the mob has many city officials under their control. He's assisted by a newspaper man, Jerry McKibbon, who doesn't think...
6.7
138 votes
6.7
138 votes
Invisible Stripes
1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast George Raft · Jane Bryan · William Holden · Humphrey Bogart
Synopsis Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job because of his criminal past. His brother Tim (William Holden)...
6.7
123 votes
6.7
123 votes
No Time for Love
1943 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Ilka Chase · Richard Haydn
Synopsis It tells the story of an engineer Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) and a female photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert), who gets him fired from a tunneling job. She feels responsible and hires him to help her. The differences in their...
6.6
223 votes
6.6
223 votes
Experiment Perilous
1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Hedy Lamarr · George Brent · Paul Lukas · Albert Dekker
Synopsis In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Through a friend, he becomes acquainted with the Bederaux family, all of whom seem to be neurotic and secretive;...
6.3
430 votes
6.3
430 votes
The Oklahoma Kid
1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast James Cagney · Humphrey Bogart · Rosemary Lane · Donald Crisp
Synopsis McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid (Cagney) takes the money from McCord (Bogart). McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be...
6.3
194 votes
6.3
194 votes
The F.B.I. (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Don Medford · Jesse Hibbs · William Hale
Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Philip Abbott · Marvin Miller · William Reynolds
Synopsis TV Series (1965-1974) 241 episodes. Cases, based on real FBI files, were handled by Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and several coworkers over the years.
6.1
23 votes
6.1
23 votes
The Fallen Sparrow
1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast John Garfield · Maureen O'Hara · Walter Slezak · Patricia Morison
Synopsis A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New York to find the truth behind the death of his friend Louie Lepetino. He finds himself being chased by Nazi agents who want an item he has brought back...
6.1
174 votes
6.1
174 votes
Fashions of 1934
1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast William Powell · Bette Davis · Frank McHugh · Hugh Herbert
Synopsis Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. His assistant Lynn poses as An American interested in a dress and Snap conceals a camera in his cane. When they try to steal the latest...
6.1
90 votes
6.1
90 votes
Appointment with Danger
1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Allen
Cast Alan Ladd · Phyllis Calvert · Paul Stewart · Jan Sterling
Synopsis Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.
6.0
118 votes
6.0
118 votes
Chicago Deadline
1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Allen
Cast Alan Ladd · Donna Reed · June Havoc · Irene Hervey
Synopsis On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know...
6.0
52 votes
6.0
52 votes
Racket Busters
1938 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Humphrey Bogart · George Brent · Gloria Dickson · Allen Jenkins
Synopsis Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for his pregnant wife Nora, Martin forces Jordan to join him....
5.9
51 votes
5.9
51 votes
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast George Raft · Ella Raines · Pat O'Brien · Bill Williams
Synopsis Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities...
5.9
80 votes
5.9
80 votes
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon · Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Victor Moore
Synopsis Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Insurance salesman Rosmer Peck falls in love with ex chorus-girl Joan Blondell, who's friend...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
The Last Command
1955 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Sterling Hayden · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Richard Carlson · Arthur Hunnicutt
Synopsis Average Texicans Jim Bowie led rebellion – and Davy Crockett – in a last ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna. While this is one of the “historical inaccuracies” of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo,...
5.8
88 votes
5.8
88 votes
Gold is Where You Find It
1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast George Brent · Claude Rains · Olivia de Havilland · Margaret Lindsay
Synopsis Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between farmers and miners in the Sacramento valley during the years following the California Gold Rush. Handsome engineer Jared Whitney (George Brent) from...
5.6
86 votes
5.6
86 votes
Marine Raiders
1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Pat O'Brien · Robert Ryan · Ruth Hussey · Frank McHugh
Synopsis Two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the Guadalcanal invasion. Their leave is spent in Australia where one of the officers falls in love. Unfortunately, his pal receives orders that send them...
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
Deluge
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Peggy Shannon · Lois Wilson · Sidney Blackmer · Lane Chandler
Synopsis New York City awaits a massive series of tidal waves which has already struck the North American west coast. As the waves strike and destroy the city, Martin is separated from his family. Seemingly the only survivor, he meets Claire,...
5.5
42 votes
5.5
42 votes
Make Haste to Live
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Dorothy McGuire · Stephen McNally · Mary Murphy · Edgar Buchanan
Synopsis Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which...
5.4
43 votes
5.4
43 votes