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Laura (1944) FR #714 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
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Director Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Vera Caspary, Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Plot A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931) FR #1958 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Horror | USA | English
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Director Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Plot Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
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Design For Living (1933) FR #3198 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English, French
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Noel Coward, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Plot A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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The Gay Divorcee (1934) FR #3443 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
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Director Mark Sandrich
Writer Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
Plot A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
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Love Me Tonight (1932) FR #3950 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
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Director Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion Jr., Waldemar Young
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette Macdonald, Charles Ruggles
Plot A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Samuel Hoffenstein collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
