Screenplay: Barré Lyndon
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Barré Lyndon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 16
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
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Walter Brooke · Eric Fleming · Mickey Shaughnessy · Phil Foster
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...
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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.
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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.
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