Screenplay: Lawrence Edward Watkin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lawrence Edward Watkin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Disneyland (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 120 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton Luske · Norman Tokar · James Neilson · Wilfred Jackson
Cast Walt Disney · Paul Frees · Clarence Nash · Roger Mobley
Plot The Walt Disney anthology television series is a television series that has been produced by the Walt Disney Company under several different titles since 1954. These include Disneyland (1954–1958), Walt...
7.3
61 votes
7.3
61 votes
The Great Locomotive Chase
1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Francis D. Lyon
Cast Fess Parker · Jeffrey Hunter · Jeff York · John Lupton
Plot This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they...
6.3
38 votes
6.3
38 votes
Beaver Valley
1950 · Documentary · 32 min. · United States
Direction James Algar
Cast Winston Hibler
Plot Fondly remembered by so many schoolkids, Beaver Valley was the second of the True Life Adventure series and won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel, for 1950. Highlights include...
6.2
25 votes
6.2
25 votes
Treasure Island
1950 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Bobby Driscoll · Robert Newton · Basil Sydney · Walter Fitzgerald
Plot Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Richard Todd · Joan Rice · Peter Finch · James Hayter
Plot Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men...
5.9
50 votes
5.9
50 votes
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Sean Connery · Albert Sharpe · Janet Munro · Jimmy O'Dea
Plot Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a Disney film set in rural Ireland at the beginning of the 19th century. Based on the books of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, the...
5.9
220 votes
5.9
220 votes
The Sword and the Rose
1953 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Glynis Johns · James Robertson Justice · Richard Todd · Michael Gough
5.6
32 votes
5.6
32 votes
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Harold French
Cast Richard Todd · Glynis Johns · James Robertson Justice · Michael Gough
Plot After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to...
5.4
43 votes
5.4
43 votes
The Biscuit Eater
1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Vincent McEveety
Cast Earl Holliman · Pat Crowley · Lew Ayres · Godfrey Cambridge
Plot In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train...
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On Borrowed Time (TV)
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Beulah Bondi · Dorothy Eaton · Larry Gates · Margaret Hamilton
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Keeper of the Bees
1947 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Michael Duane · Gloria Henry · Harry Davenport · Jane Darwell
Plot Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the...
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On Borrowed Time
1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Cedric Hardwicke · Beulah Bondi · Una Merkel
Plot Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's...
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The Light in the Forest
1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Herschel Daugherty
Cast Fess Parker · Wendell Corey · Joanne Dru · James MacArthur
Plot A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Natvie American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with...
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Ten Who Dared
1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Brian Keith · John Beal · James Drury · R.G. Armstrong
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