Screenplay: Milton Sperling

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


Merrill's Marauders

1962 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

6.5

799 votes

6.5

799 votes

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Plot This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front....

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Bickford · Ralph Bellamy · Rod Steiger

Plot The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of...

6.3

476 votes

6.3

476 votes

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Don Ameche · Loretta Young · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn

Plot Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put...

5.9

82 votes

5.9

82 votes

Retreat, Hell!

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Frank Lovejoy · Richard Carlson · Anita Louise · Lamont Johnson

Plot During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of...

5.5

82 votes

5.5

82 votes

Captain Apache

1971 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Singer

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Carroll Baker · Stuart Whitman · Percy Herbert

Plot A Native American born US Army officer, Captain Apache, investigating a murder, uncovers a presidential assassination plot.

3.7

95 votes

3.7

95 votes

Here I Am a Stranger

1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Richard Greene · Richard Dix · Brenda Joyce · Roland Young

Plot Young Englishman (Greene) meets his real father (Dix) in America, a former alcoholic. They both grow in getting know one another.

Not rated

Not rated

Return of the Cisco Kid

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Warner Baxter · Lynn Bari · Cesar Romero · Henry Hull

Plot Cisco is attracted to Ann Carver and is soon involved in her and her Grandfather's problems. Sheriff McNally has taken their money, their deed, and thrown them in jail. After...

Not rated

Not rated

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Alice Faye · Adolphe Menjou · Gregory Ratoff · Ted Healy

Plot Nightclub singer Joan Warren's agent Nicky puts her into situations designed to advance her career.

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The Great Profile

1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast John Barrymore · Mary Beth Hughes · Gregory Ratoff · John Payne

Plot Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl tries to reform him.

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Thin Ice

1937 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sonja Henie · Tyrone Power · Arthur Treacher · Raymond Walburn

Plot Lili is a skating instructor at a grand hotel in the Alps. An international conference is booked at the hotel. The conference is led by Prince Rudolph, whose plan is...

Not rated

Not rated

The Bramble Bush

1960 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Richard Burton · Barbara Rush · Jack Carson · Angie Dickinson

Plot A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. However, his friend wants to die because...

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Happy Landing

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Sonja Henie · Don Ameche · Jean Hersholt · Ethel Merman

Plot The Bride's Fair in a small Norwegian village is interrupted by the forced landing of Jimmy Hall and Duke Sargent, two Americans lost - really, really lost - while flying...

Not rated

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I'll Give a Million

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Warner Baxter · Marjorie Weaver · Peter Lorre · Jean Hersholt

Plot After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind of a...

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Not rated