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

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

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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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