Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson

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


Phone Call from a Stranger

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Shelley Winters · Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Michael Rennie

Plot David Trask, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the various victims. He is quite surprised at who he finds: the...

6.4

276 votes

6.4

276 votes

How to Marry a Millionaire

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Betty Grable · Lauren Bacall · William Powell

Plot Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

The Mudlark

1950 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Dunne · Andrew Ray · Anthony Steel

Plot A young street urchin (Andrew Ray), half-starved and homeless, finds a locket containing the likeness of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). Not recognizing her, he is told that she is the...

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Something's Got to Give

1962 · Movie · 37 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Dean Martin · Cyd Charisse · Tom Tryon

Plot Unfinished remake of "My Favorite Wife" due to the firing of Marilyn Monroe from the film. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962. Film was never completed.

6.4

234 votes

6.4

234 votes

Witness to Murder

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Sanders · Gary Merrill · Jesse White

Plot Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer ('George Sanders'), who first takes steps...

6.3

294 votes

6.3

294 votes

Everybody Does It

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Douglas · Linda Darnell · Celeste Holm · Charles Coburn

Plot Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

Chad Hanna

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.1

40 votes

6.1

40 votes

Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation

1962 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Maureen O'Hara · Lauri Peters · Fabian

Plot James Stewart reunites with his Harvey director, Henry Koster, in this 1962 comedy, which is charming enough even though it doesn't seem quite up to the level of talent involved....

5.9

352 votes

5.9

352 votes

Night People

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Gregory Peck · Broderick Crawford · Anita Björk · Rita Gam

Plot Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck)...

5.9

165 votes

5.9

165 votes

Along Came Jones

1945 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Gary Cooper · Loretta Young · William Demarest · Dan Duryea

Plot Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart...

5.8

336 votes

5.8

336 votes

The Angel Wore Red

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Ava Gardner · Dirk Bogarde · Joseph Cotten · Vittorio De Sica

Plot A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

5.7

248 votes

5.7

248 votes

Flaming Star

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Elvis Presley · Barbara Eden · Steve Forrest · Dolores del Rio

Plot When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the...

5.7

435 votes

5.7

435 votes

We're Not Married!

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Ginger Rogers · Fred Allen · Victor Moore · Marilyn Monroe

Plot A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris,...

5.7

184 votes

5.7

184 votes

Casanova Brown

1944 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Teresa Wright · Frank Morgan · Anita Louise

Plot Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the...

5.7

162 votes

5.7

162 votes

Banjo on My Knee

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Ernie Holley runs away on his wedding night because he thinks he has killed a wedding guest. His father Newt and bride Pearl find him in New Orleans and persuade...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

The World of Henry Orient

1964 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Peter Sellers · Paula Prentiss · Angela Lansbury · Tom Bosley

Plot In New York City, adolescent friends Gil and Val follow pianist Henry Orient all over town, while he tries to seduce Stella, a married woman. When Val's parents arrive for...

5.4

495 votes

5.4

495 votes

Take Her, She's Mine

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Sandra Dee · Robert Morley · Audrey Meadows

Plot A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire, and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.

5.2

47 votes

5.2

47 votes

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast William Powell · Ann Blyth · Irene Hervey · Andrea King

Plot While fishing in the Caribbean, a man hooks a beautiful mermaid, takes her home, and puts her in his pond. Unfortunately, his wife doesn't share his nautical tastes.

5.1

99 votes

5.1

99 votes

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Ronald Colman · Loretta Young · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Butterworth

Plot Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone....

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Not rated

Moulin Rouge

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Constance Bennett · Franchot Tone · Tullio Carminati · Helen Westley

Plot A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that...

Not rated

Not rated