Screenplay: John Grey

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


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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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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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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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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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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