Screenplay: Austin Parker

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


Mandalay

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Warner Oland · Lyle Talbot

Plot Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Something to Sing About

1937 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast James Cagney · Evelyn Daw · William Frawley · Mona Barrie

Plot Popular New York band leader Terry Rooney (Cagney) is offered a lucrative film contract out in Hollywood. Rooney and his wife pack up and head for California. Upon arriving, they...

6.1

171 votes

6.1

171 votes

The Rich Are Always with Us

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Ruth Chatterton · George Brent · Bette Davis · John Miljan

Plot The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. A young woman, Allison, plots to become his second wife. Caroline's friend, novelist Julian, has...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

Three Smart Girls

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Barbara Read · Nan Grey · Ray Milland

Plot The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the...

5.7

30 votes

5.7

30 votes

The Girl on the Front Page

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Edmund Lowe · Gloria Stuart · Reginald Owen · Spring Byington

Plot The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

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When Knights Were Bold

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Raymond

Cast Jack Buchanan · Fay Wray · Garry Marsh · Kate Cutler

Plot Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives...

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Shanghai Madness

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fay Wray · Ralph Morgan · Eugene Pallette

Plot In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth...

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The House on 56th Street

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Gene Raymond · John Halliday

Plot This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin falls in love with Monte Van Tyle and breaks the news to lover Fiske that...

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A Successful Calamity

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John G. Adolfi

Cast George Arliss · Mary Astor · Evalyn Knapp · Grant Mitchell

Plot Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children (Peggy and Eddie). To test his family's...

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Come Out of the Pantry

1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Jack Raymond

Cast Jack Buchanan · Fay Wray · James Carew · Olive Blakeney

Plot A British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses,...

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Honor Among Lovers

1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fredric March · Monroe Owsley · Charles Ruggles

Plot Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him for another man; when she realizes her mistake, she goes back to March. Ginger...

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