Screenplay: Allen Boretz

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


The Princess and the Pirate

1944 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction David Butler · Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Virginia Mayo · Walter Brennan · Walter Slezak

Plot Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked...

5.9

350 votes

5.9

350 votes

Up in Arms

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Danny Kaye · Dinah Shore · Dana Andrews · Constance Dowling

Plot Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in...

5.8

57 votes

5.8

57 votes

Bathing Beauty

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.8

922 votes

5.8

922 votes

I Found a Dream

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté · Don Hartman

Cast Ginger Rogers · Cornel Wilde · Percy Waram · Spring Byington

Plot Victoria Stafford (Ginger Rogers) is a wealthy young woman who has been engaged three times, and who has changed her mind at the last second at all three weddings. She...

5.6

79 votes

5.6

79 votes

Copacabana

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Groucho Marx · Carmen Miranda · Steve Cochran · Andy Russell

Plot Singing, dancing and showgirls galore enliven this musical comedy set in the famed New York nightclub "The Copacabana." Groucho Marx, sans brothers, appears as sleazy theatrical agent Lionel Devereaux; his...

5.5

583 votes

5.5

583 votes

Where There's Life

1947 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Signe Hasso · William Bendix · George Coulouris

Plot In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Bob Hope. After reluctantly traveling...

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My Girl Tisa

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Lilli Palmer · Sam Wanamaker · Akim Tamiroff · Alan Hale

Plot 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival....

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Two Guys from Texas

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

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It Ain't Hay

1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Grace McDonald · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Adaptation of the Damon Runyon story 'Princess O'Hara', in which the horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.

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Step Lively

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Frank Sinatra · George Murphy · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria DeHaven

Plot Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic...

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