Screenplay: Barré Lyndon

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


Hangover Square

1945 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laird Cregar · Linda Darnell · George Sanders · Glenn Langan

Plot A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

7.0

489 votes

7.0

489 votes

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast James Stewart · Charlton Heston · Betty Hutton · Cornel Wilde

Plot To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Gail Russell · John Lund · Virginia Bruce

Plot When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true...

6.6

185 votes

6.6

185 votes

The War of the Worlds

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Gene Barry · Ann Robinson · Les Tremayne · Henry Brandon

Plot H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills....

6.6

8K votes

6.6

8K votes

The Lodger

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Merle Oberon · George Sanders · Laird Cregar · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Mrs. Bonting manages to keep up appearances, but little more than that, these days. Though Mr. Bonting is unhappy over the idea of letting rooms, it seems an answer to...

6.4

581 votes

6.4

581 votes

Man in the Attic

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Jack Palance · Constance Smith · Byron Palmer · Frances Bavier

Plot London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments."...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Anton Diffring · Hazel Court · Christopher Lee · arnold Marle

Plot Based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945. Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who maintains a...

6.3

282 votes

6.3

282 votes

The House on 92nd Street

1945 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast William Eythe · Lloyd Nolan · Signe Hasso · Gene Lockhart

Plot A groundbreaking film for its docu-drama feel, this film about counterespionage efforts against Nazi spies in New York was filmed with the cooperation of the FBI. This exciting story was...

6.2

437 votes

6.2

437 votes

Sign of the Pagan

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jeff Chandler · Jack Palance · Ludmilla Tcherina · Rita Gam

Plot Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the...

5.8

706 votes

5.8

706 votes

To Please A Lady

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Barbara Stanwyck · Adolphe Menjou · Will Geer

Plot Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He earned his bad-boy image after he...

5.5

145 votes

5.5

145 votes

Sundown

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gene Tierney · Bruce Cabot · George Sanders · Harry Carey

Plot The British are fighting the Nazis in Africa and encounter a woman living among the natives. She can be a great help to British, or maybe she is a Nazi...

5.4

279 votes

5.4

279 votes

Omar Khayyam

1957 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Cornel Wilde · Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · John Derek

Plot Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world...

5.3

31 votes

5.3

31 votes

Conquest of Space

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

5.1

112 votes

5.1

112 votes

The Man in Half Moon Street

1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Nils Asther · Helen Walker · Reinhold Schünzel · Paul Cavanagh

Plot A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered...

Not rated

Not rated

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

1961 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Jimmie Rodgers · Luana Patten · Chill Wills · Linda Hutchings

Plot An orphan fights for the north in the civil war, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.

Not rated

Not rated

Dark Intruder

1965 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Peter Mark Richman · Judi Meredith · Gilbert Green

Plot Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.

Not rated

Not rated