Writing

Laird Doyle

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Prince and the Pauper poster
6.8

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

The Prince and the Pauper

1937

Finishing School poster
6.2

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

Finishing School

1934

Dangerous poster
6.6

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.

Dangerous

1935

Special Agent poster
6.2

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Special Agent

1935

Bordertown poster
5.9

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

Bordertown

1935

Cain and Mabel poster
6.4

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

Cain and Mabel

1936

Sing and Like It poster
5.0

While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue

Sing and Like It

1934

British Agent poster
5.8

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

British Agent

1934

Another Dawn poster
6.4

While on leave, British officer Col. John Wister meets Julia Ashton, a widow who steals his heart despite her overwhelming grief. Enamored, Wister begs her to be his bride, assuring her she will someday learn to love again. After she agrees and they've wed, she accompanies him to a hostile desert region. As predicted, she does find love. However, it is not for her husband but for the handsome Capt. Denny Roark.

Another Dawn

1937

Hell Below poster
6.0

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.

Hell Below

1933

Front Page Woman poster
5.9

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.

Front Page Woman

1935

Oil for the Lamps of China poster
7.2

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.

Oil for the Lamps of China

1935

Three Men on a Horse poster
6.4

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

Three Men on a Horse

1936

Hearts Divided poster
5.5

Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.

Hearts Divided

1936

The Key poster
4.9

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

The Key

1934

No artwork available
7.0

Instead of accepting a well-to-do suitor, an orphan marries a tramp as a bet, but he turns out to be an English peer on the run for a murder he did not commit.

Strangers on Honeymoon

1936

The Phantom Express poster
5.0

Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.

The Phantom Express

1932