Screenplay: Harold Jacob Smith
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harold Jacob Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 16
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York
Plot Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Thunderhoof
1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Preston Foster · Mary Stuart · William Bishop
Plot Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had...
7.5
24 votes
7.5
24 votes
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw
Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Inherit the Wind (TV)
1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Petrie
Cast Jack Lemmon · George C. Scott · David Wells · Beau Bridges
Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
6.7
129 votes
6.7
129 votes
The River's Edge
1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Ray Milland · Anthony Quinn · Debra Paget · Harry Carey Jr.
6.7
291 votes
6.7
291 votes
Night Editor
1946 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast William Gargan · Janis Carter · Jeff Donnell · Tom Bryson
Plot Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation.
6.4
73 votes
6.4
73 votes
Enchanted Island
1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Dana Andrews · Jane Powell · Don Dubbins · Arthur Shields
Plot Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
5.4
23 votes
5.4
23 votes
It Came from Beneath the Sea
1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Bobby Gordon
Cast Kenneth Tobey · Faith Domergue · Donald Curtis · Ian Keith
Plot A gigantic octopus -- who's a real sourpuss -- terrorizes an atomic submarine shuttling the Pacific. By the time the crew realizes the monster is the nasty by-product of a...
5.4
394 votes
5.4
394 votes
The McMasters
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alf Kjellin
Cast Burl Ives · Brock Peters · David Carradine · Nancy Kwan
Plot When Benjie, a black man who fought in the Civil War, returns to the southern town of Ironside, his return is not exactly a welcome one.
4.7
28 votes
4.7
28 votes
Black Eagle
1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Bobby Gordon
Cast William Bishop · Virginia Patton · Gordon Jones · James Bell
Plot Jason Bond hops a ride on a freight-train car, containing a saddled horse, Black Eagle, and some rifles. When the boxcar is placed on a railway siding in a Texas...
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Customs Agent
1950 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Seymour Friedman
Cast William Eythe · Marjorie Reynolds · Griff Barnett · Howard St. John
Plot U. S. Customs is trying to stop the illegal export of a miracle drug to China. A Customs agent in Shanghai inadvertently gets his partner killed and is fired. The...
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She's a Soldier Too
1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Beulah Bondi · Nina Foch · Jess Baker · Percy Kilbride
Plot Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
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Dangerous Business
1946 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction D. Ross Lederman
Cast Forrest Tucker · Lynn Merrick · Gerald Mohr · Gus Schilling
Plot Two young lawyers (Forrest Tucker and Lynn Merrick) open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate (Thurston Hall) who claims he has been framed. He is...
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Music in Manhattan
1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast Anne Shirley · Dennis Day · Phillip Terry · Raymond Walburn
Plot In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional...
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Claire Trevor · Jess Baker · Edgar Buchanan · Tom Neal
Plot Military Academy instructor Oliver Yates is 4-F and losing the respect of his students. He quits to join up but ends up working in a shipyard. His rival Charlie for...
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The Defiant Ones
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Robert Urich · Carl Weathers · Ed Lauter · Barry Corbin
Plot Carl Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson share some things: They are both in jail and they both hate each other. After a fist fight the are going to be put into...
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