Screenplay: Warren Duff

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


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)...

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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...

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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...

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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