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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