Screenplay: John C. Higgins
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John C. Higgins. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
T-Men
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Mary Meade · Alfred Ryder · Wallace Ford
Plot Two agents from the U.S. Treasury Department just got in over their heads. Partners Dennis O'Brien and Tony Genaro are ordered by their superiors to infiltrate the notorious gang behind...
6.7
628 votes
6.7
628 votes
Raw Deal
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Claire Trevor · Marsha Hunt · John Ireland
Plot Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan...
6.7
605 votes
6.7
605 votes
Railroaded!
1947 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast John Ireland · Sheila Ryan · Hugh Beaumont · Jane Randolph
Plot Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend, mob collector Duke Martin, to stage a robbery of the day's take. But...
6.6
252 votes
6.6
252 votes
He Walked By Night
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker · Anthony Mann
Cast Richard Basehart · Scott Brady · Roy Roberts · Whit Bissell
Plot This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
6.6
412 votes
6.6
412 votes
Kid Glove Killer
1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Van Heflin · Marsha Hunt · Lee Bowman · Samuel S. Hinds
Plot First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van Heflin as the head of a city crime lab who solves the murder of...
6.6
48 votes
6.6
48 votes
Border Incident
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy · Howard Da Silva · James Mitchell
Plot To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart...
6.5
162 votes
6.5
162 votes
Shield for Murder
1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Howard W. Koch · Edmond O'Brien
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Marla English · John Agar · Emile Meyer
Plot A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model...
6.5
73 votes
6.5
73 votes
Big House U.S.A
1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Howard W. Koch
Cast Broderick Crawford · Ralph Meeker · Reed Hadley · William Talman
Plot When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker...
6.4
115 votes
6.4
115 votes
The Murder Man
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Spencer Tracy · Virginia Bruce · Lionel Atwill · Harvey Stephens
Plot Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business...
6.4
45 votes
6.4
45 votes
The File of the Golden Goose
1969 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Wanamaker
Cast Yul Brynner · Charles Gray · Edward Woodward · John Barrie
Plot Policemen Novak & Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters.
5.5
78 votes
5.5
78 votes
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
1964 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Paul Mantee · Victor Lundin · Adam West
Plot Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
5.5
237 votes
5.5
237 votes
Seven Cities of Gold
1955 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Robert D. Webb
Cast Richard Egan · Anthony Quinn · Michael Rennie · Jeffrey Hunter
Plot In the eighteenth century, a Spanish expedition is looking for seven cities of gold in a territory now known as California. A very difficult task due the opposition of the...
5.4
84 votes
5.4
84 votes
Pony Soldier
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Tyrone Power · Cameron Mitchell · Thomas Gomez · Penny Edwards
5.3
193 votes
5.3
193 votes
The Broken Star
1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Howard Duff · Lita Barón · Bill Williams · Douglas Fowley
Plot A deputy marshal is ordered to investigate the killing of a Mexican ranch hand by a fellow deputy, who claims self-defense. Using turn of the century forensic science and dogged...
5.2
39 votes
5.2
39 votes
The Black Sleep
1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Le Borg
Cast Basil Rathbone · Akim Tamiroff · Lon Chaney Jr. · John Carradine
Plot England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor,...
5.2
85 votes
5.2
85 votes
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Tony Martin · Peggie Castle · John Bromfield · John Smith
Plot A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
4.5
43 votes
4.5
43 votes
Impasse
1969 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Richard Benedict
Cast Burt Reynolds · Anne Francis · Vic Diaz · Rodolfo Acosta
Plot The film concerns a group of adventurers trying to recover gold lost in the Philippines during World War II.
4.0
32 votes
4.0
32 votes
The Public Pays (S)
1936 · Movie · 19 min. · United States
Direction Errol Taggart
Cast Paul Stanton · John Dilson · Barbara Bedford · Eddy Waller
Plot A protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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Main Street After Dark
1945 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast Edward Arnold · Selena Royle · Tom Trout · Audrey Totter
Plot Ma Dibson, her son, daughter and daughter-in-law happily greet son Lefty as he is released from prison. The family makes its living by stealing from (mostly) servicemen who the two...
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Plan for Destruction (S)
1943 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast Lewis Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Adolf Hitler · Frank Reicher
Plot This short documentary looks at Nazi Germany's plan for world domination by reviewing the effects of and bitterness felt over the defeat in WWI and focusing on the geopolitical concepts...
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