Screenplay: Ewart Adamson

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


Allez Oop (S)

1934 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Charles Lamont

Cast Buster Keaton · Dorothy Sebastian · George J. Lewis · Harry Myers

Synopsis A man working in a clock repair shop meets a woman who brings in her watch to be fixed. When the watch has been repaired, he personally delivers it to...

6.1

27 votes

6.1

27 votes

The Walking Dead

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Boris Karloff · Ricardo Cortez · Edmund Gwenn · Marguerite Churchill

Synopsis Bringing the dead back to life was an extremely popular horror movie theme of the thirties and forties and Boris Karloff could certainly lay claim to being the king of...

5.9

227 votes

5.9

227 votes

The Gold Ghost (S)

1934 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Charles Lamont

Cast Buster Keaton · Warren Hymer · Dorothy Dix · Roger Moore

Synopsis Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.

5.7

30 votes

5.7

30 votes

Petticoat Politics

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

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Haunted Harbor

1944 · Movie · 243 min. · United States

Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Wallace Grissell

Cast Kane Richmond · Kay Aldridge · Roy Barcroft · Clancy Cooper

Synopsis A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan,...

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Long Shot

1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Gordon Jones · Marsha Hunt · C. Henry Gordon · George Meeker

Synopsis Henry Sharon is about to be ruined financially by rival stable owner Lew Ralston when he gets an idea to fake his own death. His prize horse Certified Check is...

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The Campus Vamp (S)

1928 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Daphne Pollard · Johnny Burke · Sally Eilers · Matty Kemp

Synopsis Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when...

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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts

1933 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Andy Clyde · Ethel Sykes · Bud Jamison · Shirley Temple

Synopsis A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

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Inside the Lines

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Roy Pomeroy

Cast Betty Compson · Ralph Forbes · Montagu Love · Ivan Simpson

Synopsis During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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The Desert Bride

1928 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Betty Compson · Allan Forrest · Edward Martindel · Otto Matieson

Synopsis Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured...

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The Night Cry

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Herman C. Raymaker

Cast John Harron · June Marlowe · Gayne Whitman · Heinie Conklin

Synopsis John Martin is a shepherd who lives on the hill with his wife, his little daughter and his dog Rin Tin Tin. They take care of the flock and, as...

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False Pretenses

1935 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Pardon My Pups

1934 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Frank Coghlan Jr. · Shirley Temple · Kenneth Howell · Dorothy Ward

Synopsis Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead.

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The Spook Speaks (S)

1940 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Jules White

Cast Buster Keaton · Elsie Ames · Don Beddoe · Dorothy Appleby

Synopsis A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.

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Circumstantial Evidence

1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Chick Chandler · Shirley Grey · Arthur Vinton · Claude King

Synopsis A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to...

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Managed Money

1934 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Frank Coghlan Jr. · Shirley Temple · Harry Myers · Helene Chadwick

Synopsis Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.

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