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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