Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henry Fonda · Jane Darwell · John Carradine · Charley Grapewin
Plot When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves with...
8.3
23K votes
8.3
23K votes
The Woman in the Window
1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Raymond Massey · Edmund Breon
Plot Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while...
8.1
16K votes
8.1
16K votes
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine
Plot An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment,...
7.7
38K votes
7.7
38K votes
The Dark Mirror
1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Lew Ayres · Thomas Mitchell · Richard Long
Plot A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Jesse James
1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott
Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Charley Grapewin · Marjorie Rambeau · Gene Tierney · William Tracy
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Movie · 137 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Gregory Peck · Vincent Price · Thomas Mitchell · Rose Stradner
Plot A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as...
7.0
653 votes
7.0
653 votes
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Warner Baxter · Gloria Stuart · Joyce Kay · Claude Gillingwater
Plot The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
7.0
693 votes
7.0
693 votes
Holy Matrimony
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Monty Woolley · Gracie Fields · Laird Cregar · Una O'Connor
Plot From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.
7.0
129 votes
7.0
129 votes
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke · Jessica Tandy · Luther Adler
Plot James Mason is outstanding in the role of Field Marshal Rommel, the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps, which dominated North Africa during the early years of World War II, later...
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
Roxie Hart
1942 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · George Montgomery · Lynne Overman
Plot Sassy '20s Chicago dance hall girl Roxie (Rogers) decides to take the fall when hubby (Chandler) murders a man (She sees it as a publicity boost to her career). Slick...
6.7
154 votes
6.7
154 votes
Black Widow
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Ginger Rogers · Van Heflin · Gene Tierney · George Raft
Plot A young stage hopeful (Peggy Ann Gardner), is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer(Van Heflin).
6.6
192 votes
6.6
192 votes
The True Story of Jesse James
1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast Robert Wagner · Jeffrey Hunter · Hope Lange · Agnes Moorehead
Plot The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill's raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank and...
6.6
801 votes
6.6
801 votes
The Three Faces of Eve
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Joanne Woodward · David Wayne · Lee J. Cobb · Nancy Kulp
Plot Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Moontide
1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo · Fritz Lang
Cast Jean Gabin · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Claude Rains
Plot After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge....
6.6
227 votes
6.6
227 votes
My Cousin Rachel
1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Richard Burton · Audrey Dalton · Ronald Squire
Plot While investigating the mysterious death of his cousin, Philip begins to suspect that the grieving widow may actually be behind the death.
6.6
245 votes
6.6
245 votes
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (TV)
1985 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast Lee Marvin · Ernest Borgnine · Ken Wahl · Larry Wilcox
Plot Major Reisman is "Volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general...
6.5
584 votes
6.5
584 votes
Three Came Home
1950 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Claudette Colbert · Patric Knowles · Sessue Hayakawa · Florence Desmond
6.5
288 votes
6.5
288 votes
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956 · Movie · 153 min. · United States
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Gregory Peck · Jennifer Jones · Fredric March · Marisa Pavan
Plot A very long and serious adaptation of the Sloan Wilson novel about a Madison Avenue advertising exec trying to balance his life between work and family. A man returns home...
6.4
443 votes
6.4
443 votes
The House of Rothschild
1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker · Sidney Lanfield
Cast George Arliss · Boris Karloff · Loretta Young · Robert Young
Plot The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance...
6.4
26 votes
6.4
26 votes