Screenplay: Frederick Jackson

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


Stormy Weather

1943 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Lena Horne · Bill Robinson · Katherine Dunham · Fats Waller

Plot The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.

6.8

47 votes

6.8

47 votes

Wells Fargo

1937 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Joel McCrea · Bob Burns · Frances Dee · Lloyd Nolan

Plot This is one of those history lesson films that tell us an interesting story about the expansion of this country, the failure of the US Post Office to meet the...

5.8

34 votes

5.8

34 votes

The Great Gambini

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Akim Tamiroff · Marian Marsh · John Trent · Genevieve Tobin

Plot A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancé and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The...

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The Arizona Express

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Tom Buckingham

Cast Pauline Starke · Evelyn Brent · Anne Cornwall · Harold Goodwin

Plot A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may...

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The Bachelor's Daughters

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Gail Russell · Claire Trevor · Ann Dvorak · Adolphe Menjou

Plot A semi-trifle with Adolphe Menjou as a department store floor walker who is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls---two-bordering-on-three of which were well beyond the "girl" stage---to pose as their father...

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Say It in French

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Ray Milland · Olympe Bradna · Irene Hervey · Janet Beecher

Plot A couple with money woes arrange a financially motivated marriage between their golf-pro son and a wealthy heiress. Little do they know, their son has already been wed while playing...

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One a Minute

1921 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Jack Nelson

Cast Douglas MacLean · Marian De Beck · Victor Potel · Frances Raymond

Plot Putting Barnum's axiom "There's one born every minute" to the test, a young man tries to boost business at his newly inherited drug store by concocting and selling a phony...

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Bedside Manner

1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Charles Ruggles · Ann Rutherford

Plot A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and...

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This Woman Is Mine

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Franchot Tone · John Carroll · Walter Brennan · Carol Bruce

Plot One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur trade. Based on a sprawling novel by...

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The Hole in the Wall

1929 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Claudette Colbert · Edward G. Robinson · David Newell · Nellie Savage

Plot Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief....

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Her First Affaire

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ida Lupino · George Curzon · Diana Napier · Harry Tate

Plot A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's...

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School for Husbands

1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Rex Harrison · Diana Churchill · June Clyde · Henry Kendall

Plot A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so...

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Tinsel

1918 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Apfel

Cast Kitty Gordon · Muriel Ostriche · Frank Mayo · Bradley Barker

Plot After her second husband dies, Princess Sylvia Carzoni writes to her first husband, Richard Carmichael, requesting the custody of their daughter Ruth. The naïve Ruth is so thrilled at the...

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Sensations of 1945

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Eleanor Powell · Dennis O'Keefe · C. Aubrey Smith · Eugene Pallette

Plot Campy musical stars Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, W.C. Fields, Cab Calloway, Sophie Tucker and Eugene Pallette. Loaded with specialty numbers; contains the now-famous number where Eleanor tap-dances...

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My Sin

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Fredric March · Harry Davenport · Scott Kolk

Plot Tallulah Bankhead is a prostitute living in Panama. She shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. Frederic March takes her case and gets her acquitted. He fronts her money...

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Ace of the Saddle

1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Stolen Heaven

1938 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Gene Raymond · Olympe Bradna · Glenda Farrell · Lewis Stone

Plot The infamous jewel thief "Will O'the Wisp," works with her partner Carl at a beer garden in Austria under the name of Steffi. They are nearly arrested while they are...

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Hi Diddle Diddle

1943 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Martha Scott · Pola Negri · Dennis O'Keefe

Plot When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is...

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The Bishop Misbehaves

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Maureen O'Sullivan · Lucile Watson · Reginald Owen

Plot On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in...

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Miracle on Main Street

1939 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast Margo · Walter Abel · William Collier Sr. · Jane Darwell

Plot On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the girl finds an abandoned baby...

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