Screenplay: Michael Butler
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michael Butler. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 17
Pale Rider
1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn
Synopsis Pale Rider (1985) follows a mysterious preacher who arrives in a small mining town terrorized by a ruthless landowner and his hired thugs. The settlers, struggling to protect their land and livelihoods, find hope in the enigmatic stranger. As tensions...
7.4
19K votes
7.4
19K votes
Ironside (TV Series)
1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry
Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson
Synopsis Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...
6.3
445 votes
6.3
445 votes
The Gauntlet
1977 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Pat Hingle · William Prince
Synopsis In The Gauntlet (1977), a washed-up cop, Ben Shockley, is assigned a seemingly routine task: escort a feisty prostitute, Gus Mally, from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify. However, their journey spirals into chaos as they encounter relentless ambushes and...
6.0
6K votes
6.0
6K votes
Baretta (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Don Medford · Bernard L. Kowalski · Robert Douglas
Cast Robert Blake · Tom Ewell · Michel D. Roberts · Ed Grover
Synopsis Streetwise, undercover, unconventional cop Baretta solves crimes, often using disguises, with the help of stoolie Rooster and pet cockatoo Fred.
5.8
247 votes
5.8
247 votes
The Don Is Dead
1973 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Anthony Quinn · Frederic Forrest · Robert Forster · Al Lettieri
Synopsis After his mistress is murdered a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
5.7
253 votes
5.7
253 votes
Flashpoint
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction William Tannen
Cast Kris Kristofferson · Treat Williams · Rip Torn · Kevin Conway
Synopsis Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info...
5.7
35 votes
5.7
35 votes
The Car
1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Elliot Silverstein
Cast James Brolin · Kathleen Lloyd · John Marley · Ronny Cox
Synopsis While traveling through the desert nearby the small town of Santa Ynez on their bicycles to camp, two teenage bicyclers are murdered by a mysterious black car. Then the car hit-and-run a hitchhiker and the crime is witnessed by the...
5.7
592 votes
5.7
592 votes
Brannigan
1975 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Hickox
Cast John Wayne · Richard Attenborough · Judy Geeson · Mel Ferrer
Synopsis Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings...
5.4
600 votes
5.4
600 votes
White Mile (TV)
1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Robert Butler
Cast Alan Alda · Peter Gallagher · Bruce Altman · Robert Loggia
Synopsis How far would you go to keep your job? That's the question the ad for this movies states. Based on a true story, Dan Cutler is the head of a New York advertising agency. In a move to build character,...
5.2
52 votes
5.2
52 votes
Murder by Phone
1981 · Movie · 79 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Richard Chamberlain · John Houseman · Sara Botsford · Robin Gammell
4.7
70 votes
4.7
70 votes
Code of Silence
1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Davis
Cast Chuck Norris · Henry Silva · Bert Remsen · Mike Genovese
4.0
972 votes
4.0
972 votes
Kate McShane (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Corey Allen · Bill Bixby · David Friedkin · John Peyser
Cast Anne Meara · Ed Lauter · John Aprea · Sandy Ward
Synopsis Kate McShane was a brash but successful criminal attorney from a blue-collar Irish background who often took on cases that seemed hopeless for her clients.
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Fifty/Fifty
1992 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Charles Martin Smith
Cast Peter Weller · Robert Hays · Charles Martin Smith · Lim Kay Tong
Synopsis Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
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The Big Black Pill (TV)
1981 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Reza Badiyi
Cast Robert Blake · JoBeth Williams · Neva Patterson · James Gammon
Synopsis Joe Dancer is a private detective working in LA. He's given a big money case by Tiffany Farinpour, one of the Farinpour family who include powerful politicians. Tiffany needs Joe to find her younger brother David who has left the...
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Against the Law (TV Series)
1990 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Manson · Jan Egleson · Peter Ellis · Sam Pillsbury
Cast Michael O'Keefe · Suzzanne Douglas · Elizabeth Ruscio · M.C. Gainey
Synopsis Simon MacHeath, a brash and firey lawyer, has left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice. His reputation for exploding into emotional outbursts during trials has gotten him in to repeated confrontations with judges, but...
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Nakia (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alvin Ganzer · Leonard Horn · Alexander Singer
Cast Robert Forster · Arthur Kennedy · Taylor Lacher · Gloria DeHaven
Synopsis TV Series about Navajo deputy sheriff in New Mexico.
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Houston Knights (TV Series)
1987 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Michael Butler · Richard A. Colla · David Jackson · Richard Lang
Cast Michael Paré · Michael Beck · D. Franki Horner · Dana Young
Synopsis A Chicago cop is transferred to Houston where he teams up with a Texas lawman.
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