Screenplay: John Grey
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Grey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
The Kid Brother
1927 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Ted Wilde · J.A. Howe · Lewis Milestone
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Walter James · Leo Willis
Synopsis Meek country boy, Harold Hickory (Lloyd) is smitten by Mary Powers (Ralston), travelling with her late father's medicine show. When the show burns down, Harold invites her to stay at his house with his father and brothers. When the town's...
7.4
634 votes
7.4
634 votes
Speedy
1928 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Ted Wilde
Cast Harold Lloyd · Ann Christy · Bert Woodruff · Brooks Benedict
Synopsis "Speedy" loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad...
7.2
538 votes
7.2
538 votes
Hot Water
1924 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor · Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Josephine Crowell · Charles Stevenson
Synopsis Harold Lloyd plays Hubby who gets to marry the girl of his dreams (Jobyna Ralston). They have a very steady marriage until the worst thing happens, the in-laws arrive.
7.1
488 votes
7.1
488 votes
Movie Crazy
1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Clyde Bruckman · Harold Lloyd
Cast Harold Lloyd · Constance Cummings · Kenneth Thomson · Louise Closser Hale
Synopsis Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd), an accident prone young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to...
7.1
416 votes
7.1
416 votes
For Heaven's Sake
1926 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Noah Young · Jim Mason
Synopsis The Uptown Boy, J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul's (Weigel) mission. In order to build up attendance, and win Hope's attention, Harold runs through town...
7.1
272 votes
7.1
272 votes
The Freshman
1925 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer · Sam Taylor
Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Brooks Benedict · James Anderson
Synopsis Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate...
7.0
457 votes
7.0
457 votes
Coquette
1929 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Mary Pickford · Johnny Mack Brown · Matt Moore · John St. Polis
Synopsis A flirtatious southern belle is compromised with one of her beaus.
5.2
32 votes
5.2
32 votes
Captain January
1924 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Hobart Bosworth · Baby Peggy · Irene Rich · Lincoln Stedman
Synopsis A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.
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Paradise for Buster
1952 · Movie · 39 min. · United States
Direction Del Lord
Cast Buster Keaton · Harold Goodwin
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The Grim Game
1919 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Willat
Cast Harry Houdini · Thomas Jefferson · Ann Forrest · Augustus Phillips
Synopsis Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
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Too Many Wives
1937 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Ben Holmes
Cast Anne Shirley · John Morley · Gene Lockhart · Dudley Clements
Synopsis An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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A Small Town Idol
1921 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton · Mack Sennett
Cast Ben Turpin · James Finlayson · Phyllis Haver · Bert Roach
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Hypnotized
1932 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Mack Sennett
Cast George Moran · Charles Mack · Ernest Torrence · Wallace Ford
Synopsis A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the...
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The Heckler (S)
1940 · Movie · 18 min. · United States
Direction Del Lord
Cast Charley Chase · Tom Hanlon · Don Beddoe · Bruce Bennett
Synopsis An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Terror Island
1920 · Movie · 55 min. · United States
Direction James Cruze
Cast Harry Houdini · Jack Brammall · Lila Lee · Wilton Taylor
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Forty Naughty Girls
1937 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast James Gleason · ZaSu Pitts · Marjorie Lord · George Shelley
Synopsis Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City, and the show's press agent is murdered before the curtain goes up. But the show must go on and while Piper...
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Mysterious Crossing
1936 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast James Dunn · Jean Rogers · Andy Devine · Hobart Cavanaugh
Synopsis A traveling newspaper reporter, Addison Murphy (James Dunn), stumbles onto the murder of an unidentified man while crossing the Mississippi River on a riverboat. His investigation also leads to falling in love with the daughter, Yvonne Fontaine (Jean Rogers), of...
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Tracked by the Police
1927 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Rin Tin Tin · Jason Robards Sr. · Virginia Brown Faire · Tom Santschi
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Bunker Bean
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction William Hamilton · Edward Killy
Cast Owen Davis Jr. · Louise Latimer · Robert McWade · Jessie Ralph
Synopsis Bunker Bean, a meek office clerk, has grandiose dreams but seems destined to remain forever in his lowly station. He seeks out the help of a fortune- teller, who tells him he is the reincarnation of Napoleon and also of...
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How's About It?
1943 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast The Andrews Sisters · Grace McDonald · Robert Paige · Shemp Howard
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