Screenplay: Howard Fast
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Howard Fast. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Spartacus
1960 · Movie · 196 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov
Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...
8.0
68K votes
8.0
68K votes
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Movie · 160 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Richard Widmark · Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Sal Mineo
Plot Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Mirage
1965 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Gregory Peck · Diane Baker · Walter Matthau · Kevin McCarthy
Plot In New York City, an accountant's memory suddenly becomes mixed up starting from the moment the building he is in has a power blackout. He is bewildered that he can't...
6.6
364 votes
6.6
364 votes
Man in the Middle
1963 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Guy Hamilton
Cast Robert Mitchum · France Nuyen · Trevor Howard · Barry Sullivan
6.4
43 votes
6.4
43 votes
Rachel and the Stranger
1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast William Holden · Loretta Young · Robert Mitchum · Gary Gray
Plot A wandering frontiersman (Robert Mitchum) visits a backwoodsman (William Holden) and his wife (Loretta Young), and during his stay has a profound effect on their relationship.
6.2
291 votes
6.2
291 votes
Penelope
1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Natalie Wood · Ian Bannen · Dick Shawn · Peter Falk
Plot Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.
5.7
75 votes
5.7
75 votes
21 Hours at Munich
1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William A. Graham
Cast William Holden · Shirley Knight · Franco Nero · Richard Basehart
5.6
296 votes
5.6
296 votes
Masters of Science Fiction (TV Series)
2007 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Harold Becker · Michael Tolkin · Mark Rydell · Michael Petroni
Cast Stephen Hawking · John Hurt · Brian Dennehy · James Denton
5.5
57 votes
5.5
57 votes
The Crossing (TV)
2000 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Robert Harmon
Cast Jeff Daniels · Sebastian Roché · Ned Vukovic · John Henry Canavan
Plot In 1776, less than six months after the Declaraton of Independence, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, was on the brink of utter defeat. Low on...
5.2
30 votes
5.2
30 votes
April Morning (TV)
1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Robert Urich · Chad Lowe · Susan Blakely
Plot The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Faithful to author...
5.2
52 votes
5.2
52 votes
Spartacus (TV)
2004 · Movie · 174 min. · United States
Direction Robert Dornhelm
Cast Goran Visnjic · Alan Bates · Angus MacFadyen · Rhona Mitra
Plot The epic story of a slave who fights for freedom. Set in the time of the Roman Empire in 72 BC, a young boy witnesses his father's murder before becoming...
4.7
2K votes
4.7
2K votes
The Awakening (Masters of Science Fiction Series)
2007 · Movie · 45 min. · United States
Direction Michael Petroni
Cast Terry O'Quinn · Elisabeth Röhm · William B. Davis · Julian Christopher
Plot In the middle of a ferocious firefight outside of Baghdad, US soldiers discover a mysterious body—one that they can’t even identify as human. Swiftly, all over the earth, more such...
4.3
85 votes
4.3
85 votes
Freedom Road (TV)
1979 · Movie · 186 min. · United States
Direction Ján Kadár
Cast Muhammad Ali · Kris Kristofferson · Ron O'Neal · Edward Herrmann
Plot Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves...
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Jigsaw
1968 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction James Goldstone
Cast Harry Guardino · Bradford Dillman · Hope Lange · Pat Hingle
Plot After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
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Benjamin Franklin (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1974 · Series · 320 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Eddie Albert · Victor Buono · Edward Mulhare · Willie Aames
Plot A mini-series made up of four plays each showing Benjamin Franklin at a different stage in his life. In each episode, Franklin is played by a different actor.
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Sylvia
1965 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Carroll Baker · George Maharis · Joanne Dru · Peter Lawford
Plot Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Summers, a man who always fears he is being loved for his money, decides to make a...
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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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The Immigrants (TV)
1978 · Movie · 240 min. · United States
Direction Alan J. Levi
Cast Stephen Macht · Sharon Gless · Amy Eccles · Richard Anderson
Plot A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would...
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