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

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

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