Screenplay: Howard Dimsdale
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Howard Dimsdale. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Somewhere in the Night
1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast John Hodiak · Nancy Guild · Lloyd Nolan · Richard Conte
Plot George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a...
6.6
591 votes
6.6
591 votes
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Hedy Lamarr · John Hodiak · James Craig · George Macready
Plot After World War II, people try to sneak into the U.S. illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready). U.S. Immigration operative Peter Karczag...
6.3
142 votes
6.3
142 votes
Medical Center (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Frank Glicksman · Al C. Ward · Vincent Sherman · Earl Bellamy
Cast Chad Everett · James Daly · Chris Hutson · Barbara Baldavin
Plot TV Series (1969-1976). 170 episodes. Located in the Los Angeles area, Medical Center was an otherwise unnamed hospital complex that was part of a large university campus. Dr. Paul Lochner...
6.2
94 votes
6.2
94 votes
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Bishop · Bernard Knowles · Ralph Smart · Robert Day
Cast Richard Greene · Victor Woolf · Archie Duncan · Alexander Gauge
Plot TV Series (1955-1960). 143 episodes.
5.3
38 votes
5.3
38 votes
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Charles Laughton · Hillary Brooke
Plot Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson (Lou Costello) and Rocky Stonebridge (Bud Abbott) are on their way to Death's Head Tavern, where they work. They encounter Lady Jane (Fran Warren), who asks...
5.2
91 votes
5.2
91 votes
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Sara Haden · Bonita Granville
Plot Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay...
5.0
32 votes
5.0
32 votes
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Kenneth More · Jayne Mansfield · Henry Hull · Bruce Cabot
Plot Jonathan Tibbs reckons that a good way to improve the fortunes of his uncle's London gun company is to sell their products in the Wild West, so he sets off...
4.6
141 votes
4.6
141 votes
Superboy (TV Series)
1988 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction David Nutter · Reza Badiyi · Kenneth Bowser · Colin Chilvers
Cast John Haymes Newton · Gerard Christopher · Stacy Haiduk · Scott Wells
Plot The adventures of Superman when he was a boy. In his secret identity of Clark Kent, Superboy works for a government organization that investigates unusual and paranormal disturbances. His girlfriend...
3.6
469 votes
3.6
469 votes
The Living Ghost
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast James Dunn · Joan Woodbury · Paul McVey · Vera Gordon
Plot Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving...
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Ben Casey (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction James E. Moser · Leo Penn · Irving Lerner · Sydney Pollack
Cast Vince Edwards · Sam Jaffe · Jeannie Bates · Franchot Tone
Plot TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 153 Episodes. Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba and later...
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Law of the Plainsman (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Paul Landres · William F. Claxton · John Peyser · Bobby Gordon
Cast Michael Ansara · Dayton Lummis · Nora Marlowe · Gina Gillespie
Plot Sam Buckhart was an Apache Indian who had saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was...
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Women in Hiding (S)
1940 · Movie · 22 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Marsha Hunt · Jane Drummond · Mary Bovard · C. Henry Gordon
Plot The MGM crime reporter introduces Dr. Mallory, health commissioner of a large Midwestern city, he who talks about the dangers pregnant women face by going to clinics that advertise discreet...
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Beyond Westworld (TV Series)
1980 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Rod Holcomb · Ted Post · Paul Stanley · Jack Starrett
Cast Jim McMullan · Connie Sellecca · James Wainwright · William Jordan
Plot This followup to the theatrical films "Westworld" and "Futureworld" features John Moore, Security Chief of the Delos Corporation, the company that created the killer robots seen in the films. Now...
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Respect the Law (S)
1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Moroni Olsen · Richard Lane · Frank Orth · William Forrest
Plot A lesson in uncivic selfishness and the value of city ordinances. A public health officer describes an event at a coastal city where a wharf owner bribed a health inspector...
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Zane Grey (TV Series)
1956 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction John English · James Sheldon · William D. Faralla · Robert Florey
Cast Dick Powell · Whitey Hughes · Walter Sande · Denver Pyle
Plot TV Series (1956-1961). An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Powell was often the star as well as the host.
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Donald O´Connor · Gale Storm · Walter Brennan · Vincent Price
Plot An itinerant troupe of show-biz folks arrives in Cactus Creek. This band of traveling players consists of a hammy Shakespearean actor named Tracy Holland; Lily Martin,an ex-hoofer, and the young...
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Captain Scarlett
1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Thomas Carr
Cast Richard Greene · Leonora Amar · Nedrick Young · Manolo Fábregas
Plot Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged marriage to...
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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Jud Taylor · Robert E. Collins · Jeffrey Hayden · Leonard Horn
Cast David Hartman · E.G. Marshall · John Saxon · Robert Walden
Plot Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own very exclusive clinic called...
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We Joined the Navy
1962 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wendy Toye
Cast Kenneth More · Lloyd Nolan · Joan O'Brien · Mischa Auer
Plot This is the story of the riotous, romantic, exciting, astonishing and highly entertaining adventures of Lt Commander Badger, RN. An exceptionally likeable fellow, the Badger has one besetting sin, a...
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A Kiss for Corliss
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Shirley Temple · David Niven · Tom Tully · Virginia Welles
Plot A teenage girl who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way...
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