Screenplay: Lawrence Roman

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


Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Richard Egan · Jan Sterling · Dan Duryea · Julie Adams

Plot Three men gun down Solly Pitts, 'rebel' against the racket-ridden Longshoremen's Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife 'Cockeye' Cook was one of the killers...but won't repeat it to the...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

Vice Squad

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Paulette Goddard · K.T. Stevens · Porter Hall

Plot When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the...

6.5

78 votes

6.5

78 votes

A Kiss Before Dying

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Robert Wagner · Jeffrey Hunter · Virginia Leith · Joanne Woodward

Plot Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of...

6.2

459 votes

6.2

459 votes

Naked Alibi

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gloria Grahame · Gene Barry · Marcia Henderson

Plot Questioned by the police, a drunk Al Willis attacks his police questioners. He gets beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only...

6.2

85 votes

6.2

85 votes

One Desire

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

6.0

193 votes

6.0

193 votes

Red Sun

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Terence Young

Cast Charles Bronson · Toshirô Mifune · Ursula Andress · Alain Delon

Plot The Japanese ambassador is travelling through the Wild West by train, when gangsters hold up the train, to rob a gold shipment. They also carry an ancient Japanese sword the...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Paper Lion

1968 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Alex March

Cast Alan Alda · Lauren Hutton · Joe Schmidt · Alex Karras

Plot George Plimpton wants to write a story for Sports Illustrated on what it is like to be a quarterback for an NFL team. No one is willing to allow a...

5.6

27 votes

5.6

27 votes

Under the Yum Yum Tree

1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction David Swift

Cast Jack Lemmon · Carol Lynley · Dean Jones · Edie Adams

Plot A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiance and give him a chance.

5.6

166 votes

5.6

166 votes

Day of the Bad Man

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Fred MacMurray · Joan Weldon · John Ericson · Robert Middleton

Plot The vicious Hayes clan amble into town on the day Judge Jim Scott is expected to sentence murderer Rudy Hayes to hang. Scott, who doesn't wear a gun, seems unconcerned...

5.4

82 votes

5.4

82 votes

McQ

1974 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast John Wayne · Eddie Albert · Diana Muldaur · Al Lettieri

Plot Lt. Lon McQ, an aging Seattle detective, investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.

5.4

832 votes

5.4

832 votes

Drums Across the River

1954 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Audie Murphy · Lisa Gaye · Walter Brennan · Lyle Bettger

Plot The once booming gold town of Crown City, Colorado has fallen on hard times. The only gold left is across the river, on Ute Indian land. Crown City resident Sam...

4.9

75 votes

4.9

75 votes

The Man from Bitter Ridge

1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Lex Barker · Mara Corday · Stephen McNally · John Dehner

Plot Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arrives in Tomahawk. His assignment is to discover who has been holding up the local stagecoach and is guilty for a series of killings that...

4.9

90 votes

4.9

90 votes

A Warm December

1973 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Ester Anderson · Yvette Curtis · George Baker

Plot Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter arrive for a month-long visit to London for dirt-bike racing and unexpectedly, a new romance for the widowed Dr. Younger. His new love interest...

4.7

39 votes

4.7

39 votes

The Sharkfighters

1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Victor Mature · Karen Steele · James Olson · Philip Coolidge

Plot Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the...

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Badge of the Assassin (TV)

1985 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Mel Damski

Cast James Woods · Yaphet Kotto · Alex Rocco · David Harris

Plot Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers...

Not rated

Not rated

Anatomy of an Illness (TV)

1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

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Final Verdict (TV)

1991 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jack Fisk

Cast Treat Williams · Olivia Burnette · Glenn Ford · Ashley Crow

Plot Nora Rogers, who grew up to become journalist and writer Adela Rogers St. John, had a unique view of the law practice of her celebrated and notorious father Earl Rogers,...

Not rated

Not rated

The Swinger

1966 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Ann-Margret · Anthony Franciosa · Robert Coote · Yvonne Romain

Plot Goody-goody girl journalist Kelly Olsson (Ann-Margret Olsson) poses as a "swinger" to impress the horny stud editor of "Girl-lure" men's magazine (Tony Franciosa) to get him to publish her steaming...

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Not rated