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

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

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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Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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,...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated