Screenplay: Hal Kanter

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


Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Plot Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

The Rose Tattoo

1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Anna Magnani · Burt Lancaster · Marisa Pavan · Ben Cooper

Plot An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period of years...

6.6

800 votes

6.6

800 votes

Let's Make Love

1960 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Yves Montand · Tony Randall · Frankie Vaughan

Plot A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Artists and Models

1955 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Shirley MacLaine · Dorothy Malone

Plot Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of...

6.0

498 votes

6.0

498 votes

Move Over, Darling

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter

Plot Remake of My Favorite Wife, 1940, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

5.9

405 votes

5.9

405 votes

Black Dragon AKA Miracles

1989 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong

Max

5.8

509 votes

5.8

509 votes

Money from Home

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Marjie Millar · Pat Crowley

Plot Matt and Dean are in trouble. Dean owes tons of gambling debts. To pay it off, he promises to fix a horse, so that it does not run. To do...

5.8

125 votes

5.8

125 votes

Dear Brigitte

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Fabian · Glynis Johns · Cindy Carol

Plot Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his...

5.4

91 votes

5.4

91 votes

Casanova's Big Night

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Joan Fontaine · Audrey Dalton · Basil Rathbone

Plot Italy, 1757. Meek tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what he's getting into: locked into the incongruous...

5.3

39 votes

5.3

39 votes

Bachelor in Paradise

1961 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Bob Hope · Lana Turner · Janis Paige · Jim Hutton

Plot Adam J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he...

5.0

114 votes

5.0

114 votes

Loving You

1957 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Hal Kanter

Cast Elvis Presley · Lizabeth Scott · Wendell Corey · Dolores Hart

Plot Elvis Presley plays Deke Rivers, a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle (Lizabeth Scott) and country-western musician Tex Warner (Wendell Corey) who want to promote the talented...

4.9

124 votes

4.9

124 votes

My Favorite Spy

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss

Plot Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic...

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction James V. Kern

Cast Tony Martin · Janet Leigh · Gloria DeHaven · Eddie Bracken

Plot Nancy Peterson and her friends wants to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.

4.7

40 votes

4.7

40 votes

Blue Hawaii

1961 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Elvis Presley · Joan Blackman · Angela Lansbury · Roland Winters

Plot Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him...

4.4

744 votes

4.4

744 votes

The Jimmy Stewart Show (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby · Bernard Wiesen · Hal Kanter · Ezra Stone

Cast James Stewart · Julie Adams · Jonathan Daly · Ellen Geer

Plot Beloved film legend James Stewart made his much-anticipated, highly-publicized series TV debut in this domestic comedy about the frequently chaotic home and professional lives of a small-town college professor.

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Mardi Gras

1958 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Pat Boone · Christine Carère · Tommy Sands · Sheree North

Plot A military school cadet wins a date with a French movie goddess, who happens to be the queen of the Mardi Gras Parade. The two fall in love, but then...

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You Can't Take It with You (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hal Kanter · Bob LaHendro

Cast Harry Morgan · Lois Nettleton · Richard Sanders · Lisa Aliff

Plot The show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin...

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Chico and the Man (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James Komack · Jack Donohue · Peter Baldwin

Cast Jack Albertson · Scatman Crothers · Freddie Prinze · Della Reese

Plot (1975-1978). 4 seasons. Energetic Chico wants to form a partnership with cynical Ed Brown in the old man's garage. His efforts bring in customers and the crabby Ed softens toward...

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Off Limits

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bob Hope · Mickey Rooney · Marilyn Maxwell · Eddie Mayehoff

Plot Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. Life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn, however,...

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The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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