Screenplay: Roy Huggins

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


Pushover

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Fred MacMurray · Phil Carey · Kim Novak · Dorothy Malone

Synopsis A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop, to save herself she sets out to corrupt him. He's...

7.2

859 votes

7.2

859 votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on his way home from a drive when the murder occurred,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Fugitive

1993 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Davis

Cast Harrison Ford · Tommy Lee Jones · Jeroen Krabbé · Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried,...

7.0

74K votes

7.0

74K votes

Too Late for Tears

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Lizabeth Scott · Don DeFore · Dan Duryea · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her...

6.9

274 votes

6.9

274 votes

State Secret (The Great Manhunt)

1950 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Walter Rilla

Synopsis Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

The Lady Gambles

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Preston · Stephen McNally · Edith Barrett

Synopsis When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story...

6.6

146 votes

6.6

146 votes

Sealed Cargo

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Dana Andrews · Carla Balenda · Claude Rains · Philip Dorn

Synopsis During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger...

6.5

87 votes

6.5

87 votes

Woman in Hiding

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ida Lupino · Stephen McNally · Howard Duff · Peggy Dow

Synopsis Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes...

6.5

103 votes

6.5

103 votes

The Rockford Files (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Roy Huggins · William Wiard · Lawrence Doheny

Cast James Garner · Lindsay Wagner · William Smith · Nita Talbot

Synopsis TV Series (1974-1980). 123 episodes. Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy--just a bit on the cautious side,...

6.5

57 votes

6.5

57 votes

The Virginian (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 75 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · Abner Biberman · Anton Leader · William Witney

Cast James Drury · Doug McClure · Rusty Lane · Clu Gulager

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1971). 9 Seasons. 249 Episodes. The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Col. MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more...

6.2

189 votes

6.2

189 votes

Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glen A. Larson · Bruce Bilson · Jeffrey Hayden · Alexander Singer

Cast Ben Murphy · Pete Duel · Dennis Fimple · Ford Rainey

Synopsis TV Series (1971-1973). Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks", since "in all the trains and banks they robbed, they...

6.1

33 votes

6.1

33 votes

Gun Fury

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

6.1

459 votes

6.1

459 votes

6.0

39 votes

Hangman's Knot

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins

Cast Randolph Scott · Donna Reed · Claude Jarman Jr. · Frank Faylen

Synopsis In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry. They kill the soldiers and capture the gold only to learn the war ended a month ago. The group decides to take the gold...

6.0

168 votes

6.0

168 votes

Three Hours to Kill

1954 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Dana Andrews · Donna Reed · Dianne Foster · Stephen Elliott

Synopsis After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In flashback we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was...

5.9

101 votes

5.9

101 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

U.S. Marshals

1998 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Baird

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Wesley Snipes · Robert Downey Jr. · Irène Jacob

Synopsis U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear...

5.6

10K votes

5.6

10K votes

Hunter (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction James Whitmore Jr. · Michael Preece · Tony Mordente · Corey Allen

Cast Fred Dryer · Stepfanie Kramer · Charles Hallahan · Perry Cook

Synopsis Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter and his partner, Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, are homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department. Often they must go undercover to catch a variety of L.A.-style villains. "Sporty" James, a helpful police-informant, occasionally provides a...

5.6

49 votes

5.6

49 votes

Direction Roy Huggins · James Frawley · Richard Compton · Mikael Salomon

Cast Tim Daly · Mykelti Williamson · Stephen Lang · Lia Johnson

Synopsis This television series is a remake of both the original TV show and the 1993 Harrison Ford film. Tim Daly stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, the title character who is on the run and searching for the one-armed man that...

5.0

72 votes

5.0

72 votes