Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 58
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
Direction Henry King
Cast Henry Fonda · Dorothy Lamour · Linda Darnell · Guy Kibbee
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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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...
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