Screenplay: Gladys Atwater

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


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

Siege at Red River

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Van Johnson · Joanne Dru · Richard Boone · Milburn Stone

Plot Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians.

5.5

116 votes

5.5

116 votes

In Old California

1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast John Wayne · Binnie Barnes · Albert Dekker · Helen Parrish

Plot Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine,...

5.3

72 votes

5.3

72 votes

The treasure of Pancho Villa

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Rory Calhoun · Shelley Winters · Gilbert Roland · Joseph Calleia

Plot An American adventurer competes with the famed Mexican bandit to recover a lost gold shipment.

5.2

79 votes

5.2

79 votes

The Great Sioux Uprising

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Jeff Chandler · Faith Domergue · Lyle Bettger · Peter Whitney

Plot Joan Britton, improbably gorgeous frontier horse dealer, and the much less scrupulous Stephen Cook are friendly competitors supplying horses to the Union Army in Wyoming Territory during the Civil War....

5.0

71 votes

5.0

71 votes

Overland Pacific

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Fred F. Sears

Cast Jock Mahoney · Peggie Castle · Adele Jergens · William Bishop

Plot Railroad investigator tries to find the reason behind constant Indian attacks on the railroad.

4.8

23 votes

4.8

23 votes

Underground Agent

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Bruce Bennett · Leslie Brooks · Frank Albertson · Julian Rivero

Plot A government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for...

Not rated

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El Paso

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast John Payne · Gail Russell · Sterling Hayden · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Plot Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas...

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Crime Ring

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Allan Lane · Frances Mercer · Clara Blandick · Inez Courtney

Plot Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. In exchange for having access to jailed actress Judy Allen, Joe must help Thomas on a tough racketeering...

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Sorority House

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Anne Shirley · James Ellison · Barbara Read · Pamela Blake

Plot A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she’s trying to join.

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Not rated

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Argentine Nights

1940 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Patty Andrews · Maxene Andrews · Laverne Andrews · Al Ritz

Plot An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors.

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American Empire

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction William McGann

Cast Richard Dix · Leo Carrillo · Preston Foster · Frances Gifford

Plot This "Big Country" adventure follows three Civil War vets who head to Texas and build a cattle empire. The first man abandons ship, and he is soon followed by the...

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Casey Jones (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George Blair · Lew Landers · Abby Berlin · Sidney Salkow

Cast Alan Hale Jr. · Eddy Waller · Dub Taylor · Bobby Clark

Plot Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".

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Crashing Hollywood

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Lee Tracy · Joan Woodbury · Paul Guilfoyle · Lee Patrick

Plot An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating...

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Not rated

First Yank Into Tokyo

1945 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Tom Neal · Barbara Hale · Marc Cramer · Richard Loo

Plot An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW.

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Not rated