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

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

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