Screenplay: John Emerson

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


The Struggle

1931 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Hal Skelly · Zita Johann · Charlotte Wynters · Evelyn Baldwin

Synopsis A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

6.8

47 votes

6.8

47 votes

The Girl from Missouri

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood

Cast Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Lewis Stone

Synopsis With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. But her former milieu gave her a poor...

6.2

37 votes

6.2

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The Matrimaniac

1916 · Movie · 46 min. · United States

Direction Paul Powell

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Constance Talmadge · Wilbur Higby · Fred Warren

Synopsis A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before...

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Reaching for the Moon

1917 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Richard Cummings · Eugene Ormonde

Synopsis A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he...

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Ghosts

1915 · Movie · 49 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols · John Emerson

Cast Henry B. Walthall · Mary Alden · Loretta Blake · Monte Blue

Synopsis Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful....

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1928 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Ruth Taylor · Alice White · Ford Sterling · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands.

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Red Hot Romance

1922 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Conspiracy

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Bessie Love · Ned Sparks · Hugh Trevor · Ivan Lebadeff

Synopsis For the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko...

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Wild and Woolly

1917 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Calvert Carter · Charles Stevens

Synopsis A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long...

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Social Register

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland

Synopsis Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama...

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His Picture in the Papers

1916 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Clarence Handyside · Rene Boucicault · Jean Temple

Synopsis A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. He determines to let nothing stand in...

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A Temperamental Wife

1919 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Kirkland

Cast Constance Talmadge · Wyndham Standing · Ben Hendricks Sr. · Eulalie Jensen

Synopsis Capricious Billie Billings determines to marry bashful bachelor Senator Newton of Nevada and succeeds. She discovers on her honeymoon that her husband's secretary "Smith" is actually a woman. When the...

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Getting Mary Married

1919 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Marion Davies · Norman Kerry · Matt Moore · Frederick Burton

Synopsis Young Mary feels like a prisoner in the New York apartments of her step-father John Bussard but everything changes when her heartless guardian dies in an accident. Mary is left...

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A Rumor of Love

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · Egypt

Direction Fatin Abdel Wahab

Cast Omar Sharif · Soad Hosny · Youssef Wahby · Ehsan Sherif

Synopsis A father invents a lurid past for his awkward young nephew to present him as an exciting suitor for his daughter.

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The Americano

1916 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Alma Rubens · Spottiswoode Aitken · Carl Stockdale

Synopsis Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter,...

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Down to Earth

1917 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Charles McHugh

Synopsis A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in...

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