Screenplay: Edward Hume

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


The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Quinn Martin · Virgil W. Vogel · Walter Grauman · William Hale

Cast Karl Malden · Michael Douglas · Richard Hatch · Darleen Carr

Plot TV Series (1972-1977). 5 Seasons. 120 Episodes. A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lt. Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco solving a variety of...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Day After (TV)

1983 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Meyer

Cast Jason Robards · JoBeth Williams · Steve Guttenberg · John Cullum

Plot It is the mid-1980s. An aggressive Soviet leadership orders troops marched to the border of West Berlin, and then decides to invade West Germany with multiple armored tank & troop...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Cannon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Plot The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't...

5.9

135 votes

5.9

135 votes

A Reflection of Fear

1972 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William A. Fraker

Cast Sondra Locke · Signe Hasso · Mary Ure · Robert Shaw

Plot A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself...

5.6

100 votes

5.6

100 votes

Sweet Hostage (TV)

1975 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lee Philips

Cast Linda Blair · Martin Sheen · Jeanne Cooper · Lee de Broux

Plot An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.

5.5

30 votes

5.5

30 votes

Barnaby Jones (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Walter Grauman · Michael Caffey · Kenneth Gilbert · Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Buddy Ebsen · Lee Meriwether · John Carter · Mark Shera

Plot Barnaby comes out of retirement to track down his son's murderer with the help of Betty, his son's widow. They continue the detective agency's work in Los Angeles, with the...

5.5

42 votes

5.5

42 votes

Two-Minute Warning

1976 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Charlton Heston · John Cassavetes · Martin Balsam · Beau Bridges

Plot A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team. Sniper and SWAT converge...

5.5

971 votes

5.5

971 votes

The Terry Fox Story (TV)

1983 · Movie · 97 min. · Canada

Direction Ralph L. Thomas

Cast Eric Fryer · Robert Duvall · Chris Makepeace · Rosalind Chao

Plot The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 film biopic of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox. It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by...

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Back to the Streets of San Francisco (TV)

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Mel Damski

Cast Karl Malden · Debrah Farentino · Conor O'Farrell · Carl Lumbly

Plot SFPD Captain Mike Stone investigates the disappearance of his old partner Steve Keller.

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John and Yoko: A Love Story (TV)

1985 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Sandor Stern

Cast Mark McGann · Kim Miyori · Kenneth Price · Peter Capaldi

Plot Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

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Stranger on My Land (TV)

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Jeff Allin · Richard Anderson · Michael Paul Chan

Plot A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropriate his ranch for the construction of an air base.

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Toma (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Edward Hume · Alexander Grasshoff · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Tony Musante · Philip Michael Thomas · David Toma · Michael Baseleon

Plot Toma had compiled an amazing arrest record during his years on the force, particularly in arresting drug dealers. Toma was known as a master of disguise and undercover work, and...

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The Face of Fear (TV)

1971 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George McCowan

Cast Ricardo Montalban · Jack Warden · Elizabeth Ashley · Dane Clark

Plot A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind,...

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Summertree

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Newley

Cast Michael Douglas · Jack Warden · Brenda Vaccaro · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. His...

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Not rated