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...
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...
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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...
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Men with Wings
1938 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Fred MacMurray · Ray Milland · Louise Campbell · Andy Devine
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