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
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Anne Baxter · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · Carl Benton Reid
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...
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Anatomy of an Illness (TV)
1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard T. Heffron
Cast Ed Asner · Eli Wallach · Millie Perkins · David Ogden Stiers
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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,...
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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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