Screenplay: Brenda Weisberg

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


Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gerald Hamer · Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep...

6.4

591 votes

6.4

591 votes

China Sky

1945 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Randolph Scott · Ruth Warrick · Ellen Drew · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis In a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who...

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

Weird Woman

1944 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Anne Gwynne · Evelyn Ankers · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love with marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.

5.7

44 votes

5.7

44 votes

The Mummy's Ghost

1944 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast John Carradine · Lon Chaney Jr. · Robert Lowery · Ramsay Ames

Synopsis An Egyptian high priest (John Carradine) travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.).

5.0

100 votes

5.0

100 votes

The Mad Ghoul

1943 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast David Bruce · Evelyn Ankers · George Zucco · Robert Armstrong

Synopsis Curious about the effects of an ancient Mayan nerve gas on humans, a scientist exposes his young assistant and turns him into a mindless ghoul that must have human heart substance to live.

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On the Isle of Samoa

1950 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Jon Hall · Susan Cabot · Raymond Greenleaf · Henry Marco

Synopsis Ex-flyer Kenneth Crandall is surprised by his boss in an Australian nightclub, while attempting a robbery. Papita, Crandall's accomplice and the boss's wife, is shot and killed by her husband, but Crandall escapes with the money. He steals an airplane...

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Alias Mr. Twilight

1946 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Michael Duane · Trudy Marshall · Lloyd Corrigan · Rosalind Ivan

Synopsis Geoffrey Holden is an elderly conman who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy...

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Reunion in Reno

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Mark Stevens · Peggy Dow · Gigi Perreau · Frances Dee

Synopsis A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents.

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Port Said

1948 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast Gloria Henry · William Bishop · Steven Geray · Edgar Barrier

Synopsis Plodding story has Henry and her father, Barrier, searching through the Egyptian port in order to find the in-laws who killed Barrier's wife during the Fascist regime in Italy.

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Sing Another Chorus

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Johnny Downs · Jane Frazee · Mischa Auer · George Barbier

Synopsis An idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the...

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Hit the Road

1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Joe May

Cast Gladys George · Barton MacLane · Billy Halop · Huntz Hall

Synopsis Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.

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The Lone Wolf in London

1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Gerald Mohr · Nancy Saunders · Eric Blore · Evelyn Ankers

Synopsis Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of...

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Shadowed

1946 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Anita Louise · Lloyd Corrigan · Michael Duane · Mark Roberts

Synopsis Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of...

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You're Not So Tough

1940 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Joe May

Cast The Dead End Kids · Nan Grey · Rosina Galli · Henry Armetta

Synopsis The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck.

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Tough Kid

1938 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

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You're Telling Me

1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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There's One Born Every Minute

1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Hugh Herbert · Peggy Moran · Tom Brown · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis The advertising slogans of Jimmy Hanagan and the lab reports reveal that the patented prepared pudding invented by Lemuel P. Twine has a treasure of Vitamin Z and is full of Zumph. Lemuel's daughter, Helen is in love with Jimmy...

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