Screenplay: Harold Jacob Smith

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harold Jacob Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated