Screenplay: Walter DeLeon
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 47
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts
Synopsis While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle....
6.9
294 votes
6.9
294 votes
Union Pacific
1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston
Synopsis This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination in Ogden...
6.9
659 votes
6.9
659 votes
Six of a Kind
1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns
Synopsis The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney...
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
Artists & Models
1937 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick
Synopsis Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend...
6.1
65 votes
6.1
65 votes
Swing High, Swing Low
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn
Synopsis In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to...
6.0
139 votes
6.0
139 votes
The Cat and the Canary
1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · John Beal · Douglass Montgomery
Synopsis Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir,...
6.0
76 votes
6.0
76 votes
The Princess Comes Across
1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Douglass Dumbrille · Alison Skipworth
Synopsis A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
5.9
30 votes
5.9
30 votes
Pot o' Gold
1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast James Stewart · Paulette Goddard · Horace Heidt · Charles Winninger
Synopsis It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's caliber to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose...
5.8
371 votes
5.8
371 votes
The Ghost Breakers
1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · Richard Carlson · Paul Lukas
5.7
221 votes
5.7
221 votes
The Time of Their Lives
1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marjorie Reynolds · Binnie Barnes
Synopsis Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
Upstage
1926 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Oscar Shaw · Tenen Holtz · Gwen Lee
Synopsis Dolly (Norma Shearer) is a stagestruck girl who gets her career petered out until she displays show-must-go-on courage by standing-in as target in a knife-throwing act.
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Girl Crazy
1932 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Mitzi Green
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jack Oakie · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Lyda Roberti
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Birth of the Blues
1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Martin · Brian Donlevy · Carolyn Lee
Synopsis Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by...
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast George Brent · Virginia Bruce · Brenda Marshall · Richard Barthelmess
Synopsis Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns when an innocent boy is convicted and the real murderer confesses too late. He opens a cheap law office and his secretary Joan Reed goes...
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Rhythm on the Range
1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Bing Crosby · Frances Farmer · Bob Burns · Martha Raye
Synopsis Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but...
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The Fleet's In
1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Dorothy Lamour · William Holden · Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton
Synopsis Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. His buddies then make a bet with some other sailors that Casey can defrost an icy night club singer known...
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You Belong to Me
1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · Helen Morgan · David Holt
Synopsis When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven...
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The Star Maker
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Bing Crosby · Louise Campbell · Linda Ware · Ned Sparks
Synopsis The life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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The Big Gamble
1931 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast William Boyd · James Gleason · Warner Oland · Dorothy Sebastian
Synopsis Unable to repay a substantial gambling debt to mob boss North, Alan Beckwith concocts a last-ditch scheme. Allowing North to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life, Alan agrees to commit suicide after the mandantory one-year moratorium has...
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