Screenplay: William Faulkner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William Faulkner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 25
The Big Sleep
1946 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers
Synopsis It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren...
8.1
23K votes
8.1
23K votes
To Have and Have Not
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran
Synopsis Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) is the owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone...
7.9
12K votes
7.9
12K votes
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Rock Hudson · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone · Jack Carson
Synopsis Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Orson Welles · Lee Remick
Synopsis Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
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Intruder in the Dust
1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast David Brian · Claude Jarman Jr. · Juano Hernández · Porter Hall
Synopsis In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
6.9
210 votes
6.9
210 votes
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis
Synopsis In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
Tomorrow
1972 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Anthony
Cast Robert Duvall · Olga Bellin · Sudie Blond · Richard McConnell
Synopsis Set in the Depresion Era, Duvall staras as Jackson Fentry, a young man who leaves his father's farm to work at a local sawmill. Fentry rescues a young pregnant woman,...
6.8
60 votes
6.8
60 votes
The Road to Glory
1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang
Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber....
6.8
223 votes
6.8
223 votes
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Today We Live
1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks · Richard Rosson
Cast Joan Crawford · Gary Cooper · Robert Young · Franchot Tone
Synopsis The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew...
6.4
296 votes
6.4
296 votes
The Story of Temple Drake
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Stephen Roberts
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack La Rue · William Gargan · William Collier Jr.
Synopsis A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let...
6.4
55 votes
6.4
55 votes
Deep Valley
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Ida Lupino · Dane Clark · Wayne Morris · Fay Bainter
Synopsis Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a...
6.3
22 votes
6.3
22 votes
The Long Hot Summer (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Series · 200 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Cooper
Cast Don Johnson · Jason Robards · Judith Ivey · Cybill Shepherd
6.2
78 votes
6.2
78 votes
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Flesh
1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Wallace Beery · Ricardo Cortez · Karen Morley · Jean Hersholt
Synopsis Slimy American con man Nicky and his girl Laura Nash (Ricardo Cortez & Karen Morley) are in a German jail. Laura is released but has no means to free Nicky...
6.2
135 votes
6.2
135 votes
The Sound and the Fury
1959 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Yul Brynner · Joanne Woodward · Margaret Leighton · Stuart Whitman
Synopsis The Sound and the Fury doesn't exactly signify nothing, but as a filmization of William Faulkner it could have been far better. Yul Brynner is the oldest son of a...
6.0
196 votes
6.0
196 votes
Sanctuary
1961 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Tony Richardson
Cast Lee Remick · Yves Montand · Bradford Dillman · Harry Townes
5.9
35 votes
5.9
35 votes
Submarine Patrol
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Richard Greene · Nancy Kelly · Preston Foster · George Bancroft
Synopsis A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.
5.9
100 votes
5.9
100 votes
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The Reivers
1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Mark Rydell
Cast Steve McQueen · Rupert Crosse · Mitch Vogel · Sharon Farrell
Synopsis An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first...
5.8
266 votes
5.8
266 votes
As I Lay Dying
2013 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction James Franco
Cast James Franco · Logan Marshall-Green · Danny McBride · Tim Blake Nelson
Synopsis Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the...
5.3
449 votes
5.3
449 votes
The Sound and the Fury
2014 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction James Franco
Cast James Franco · Joey King · Dave Franco · Seth Rogen
5.3
67 votes
5.3
67 votes
Slave Ship
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Warner Baxter · Wallace Beery · Elizabeth Allan · Mickey Rooney
Synopsis Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride...
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