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.
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47 votes
6.8
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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...
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5.8
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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
Direction John Ford
Cast Harry Carey · Joe Harris · Duke R. Lee · Peggy Pearce
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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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