Screenplay: Walter DeLeon

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


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

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

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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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