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
Direction Chen Chi-Hwa · Jackie Chan
Cast Jackie Chan · Anita Mui · Rose Kwei · Ko Chun-hsiung
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
Direction Hal Kanter · Ben Tomkins · Selwyn Touber · Stan Harris
Cast Milton Berle · Billy May · Ed Herlihy · Janis Paige
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