Brown Holmes
Writing
Biography
Brown Holmes was an American screenwriter.
Known For

Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped criminals stop for a bite to eat, Olga is reminded of the past she left behind.
Heat Lightning

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Shed No Tears

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Satan Met a Lady

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Ladies They Talk About

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Oh, Doctor

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Castle on the Hudson

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
I Sell Anything

Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
We're in the Money

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
The Maltese Falcon

After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
The Case of the Curious Bride

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Hollywood Cavalcade

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.
Street of Women

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
While the Patient Slept

Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
Three Little Girls in Blue

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Top of the Town

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
The Florentine Dagger

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.