Screenplay: Philip Klein
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Philip Klein. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Street Angel
1928 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Natalie Kingston · Alberto Rabagliati
Plot In Naples, where prostitutes can pay their rent, Angela is sentenced to a year in the workhouse when she tries to steal(while streetwalking) to pay for medicine for her dying...
7.6
724 votes
7.6
724 votes
Four Sons
1928 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Margaret Mann · James Hall · Charles Morton · Ralph Bushman
Plot A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
7.4
246 votes
7.4
246 votes
Pilgrimage
1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henrietta Crosman · Heather Angel · Norman Foster · Lucille La Verne
Plot Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn't approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon). When Hannah discovers that Jim...
7.1
250 votes
7.1
250 votes
The River
1929 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Mary Duncan · Charles Farrell · Ivan Linow · Margaret Mann
Plot The River, of which the central theme is desire, is the most erotic film of the silent cinema. Wreathed with the laurels of worldwide success and with an Oscar for...
7.0
101 votes
7.0
101 votes
Doctor Bull
1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Will Rogers · Vera Allen · Marian Nixon · Howard Lally
Plot Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in the small town where he practices. When there is a mysterious outbreak...
6.8
243 votes
6.8
243 votes
Me and My Gal
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Spencer Tracy · Joan Bennett · Marion Burns · George Walsh
Plot Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
6.3
184 votes
6.3
184 votes
Dante's Inferno
1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Harry Lachman
Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Trevor · Henry B. Walthall · Alan Dinehart
Plot Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betting along the way. An inspector calls the...
6.2
84 votes
6.2
84 votes
Hangman's House
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Victor McLaglen · June Collyer · Earle Foxe · Larry Kent
Plot Forced by her dying father to marry a man she doesn't love, a young woman must pine for her true paramour until fate can bring them back together. This film...
6.1
78 votes
6.1
78 votes
Chandu the Magician
1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction William Cameron Menzies · Marcel Varnel
Cast Edmund Lowe · Irene Ware · Bela Lugosi · Herbert Mundin
5.5
56 votes
5.5
56 votes
The Black Camel
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Warner Oland · Sally Eilers · Bela Lugosi · Dorothy Revier
Plot Movie star Sheila Fayne is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved...
5.3
22 votes
5.3
22 votes
The Gay Caballero
1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast George O'Brien · Victor McLaglen · Conchita Montenegro · Linda Watkins
Plot Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who...
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I Loved You Wednesday
1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Henry King · William Cameron Menzies
Cast Warner Baxter · Elissa Landi · Victor Jory · Miriam Jordan
Plot Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they set up some light housekeeping together until she...
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Pier 13
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Eugene Forde
Cast Lloyd Nolan · Lynn Bari · Joan Valerie · Douglas Fowley
Plot Policeman (Nolan) flirts with waitress (Bari) and finds out her sister (Valerie) is involved with the robber (Fowley) is is trailing.
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Charlie Chan's Chance
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction John G. Blystone
Cast Warner Oland · Alexander Kirkland · H.B. Warner · Marian Nixon
Plot Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and...
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The Spider
1931 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction William Cameron Menzies · Kenneth MacKenna
Cast Edmund Lowe · Lois Moran · El Brendel · John Arledge
Plot Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Warner Baxter · Madge Evans · James Dunn · John Boles
Plot President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon...
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Elinor Norton
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Claire Trevor · Gilbert Roland · Henrietta Crosman · Hugh Williams
Plot During World War I, Elinor Norton provokes the jealousy of her bridegroom Tony, who is prone to sullen moods, when she gives her friend Bill Carroll, who loves her, a...
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Oh, for a Man!
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Reginald Denny · Marjorie White · Warren Hymer
Plot Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. One night, a...
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Charlie Chan Carries On
1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Warner Oland · John Garrick · Marguerite Churchill · Warren Hymer
Plot Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots...
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Hush Money
1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Joan Bennett · Hardie Albright · Owen Moore · Myrna Loy
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