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

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated