Screenplay: Robert Carson

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


Beau Geste

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Plot BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

A Star Is Born

1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Plot Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

A Star is Born

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Plot Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

A Star Is Born

2018 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Bradley Cooper

Cast Bradley Cooper · Lady Gaga · Sam Elliott · Rafi Gavron

Plot Music star Jackson Maine discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes...

Max

6.6

27K votes

6.6

27K votes

The Light That Failed

1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ronald Colman · Walter Huston · Muriel Angelus · Ida Lupino

Plot Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

The Last Gangster

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Edward G. Robinson · James Stewart · Rose Stradner · Lionel Stander

Plot Joe Krozac is a big shot mob kingpin with an ego to match his status in the underworld. Whenever his territory is encroached on, as with the Kile Brothers, he...

6.5

188 votes

6.5

188 votes

The Tuttles of Tahiti

1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Charles Laughton · Jon Hall · Peggy Drake · Victor Francen

Plot After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and...

6.5

45 votes

6.5

45 votes

Western Union

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore

Plot While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had...

6.4

680 votes

6.4

680 votes

You Gotta Stay Happy

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Joan Fontaine · James Stewart · Eddie Albert · Roland Young

Plot Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin...

6.0

91 votes

6.0

91 votes

The Desperadoes

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Randolph Scott · Glenn Ford · Claire Trevor · Evelyn Keyes

Plot When Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), a hunted gunman, rides into Red Valley, he meets and falls in love with Allison MacLeod (Evelyn Keyes). Trying to go straight, Cheyenne is enmeshed...

5.7

202 votes

5.7

202 votes

A Star Is Born

1976 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Barbra Streisand · Kris Kristofferson · Gary Busey · Oliver Clark

Plot Rock star John Norman (Kris Kristofferson) has seen his popularity dwindle and he has difficulties keeping promises to his agent or journalists. He meets the young singer Esther (Barbra Streisand)...

5.6

952 votes

5.6

952 votes

Advance to the Rear

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Glenn Ford · Stella Stevens · Melvyn Douglas · Jim Backus

Plot A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to.

5.0

33 votes

5.0

33 votes

Bundle of Joy

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Eddie Fisher · Debbie Reynolds · Adolphe Menjou · Tommy Noonan

Plot Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job,...

4.9

34 votes

4.9

34 votes

Action of the Tiger

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Van Johnson · Martine Carol · Herbert Lom · Sean Connery

Plot Carson is an American contraband runner approached by Tracy, a French woman who wants him to help rescue her brother from Albania where he is being held as a political...

4.8

25 votes

4.8

25 votes

The Reformer and the Redhead

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Norman Panama · Melvin Frank

Cast Dick Powell · June Allyson · David Wayne · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of...

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Perilous Holiday

1946 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Pat O'Brien · Ruth Warrick · Alan Hale · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Based on a "serial" story by Robert Carson that ran in the Saturday Evening Post, this tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil (Pat O'Brien)viewed...

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Ain't Misbehavin'

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Rory Calhoun · Piper Laurie · Jack Carson · Mamie Van Doren

Plot Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

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Bedside Manner

1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Charles Ruggles · Ann Rutherford

Plot A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and...

Not rated

Not rated

Just for You

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Ethel Barrymore · Robert Arthur

Plot Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to...

Not rated

Not rated

Men with Wings

1938 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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