Screenplay: Cyril Hume

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Bigger than Life

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Mason · Barbara Rush · Walter Matthau · Robert F. Simon

Synopsis James Mason plays Ed Avery, a small-town, '50s schoolteacher working two jobs and suffering debilitating illness who finds a cure - a new experimental wonder drug that seems to take away his pain and appears to free him from the...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Forbidden Planet

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Anne Francis · Leslie Nielsen · Warren Stevens

Synopsis An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why...

7.0

6K votes

7.0

6K votes

Tarzan, the Ape Man

1932 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Neil Hamilton · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis Two white traders, James Parker and Harry Holt, are preparing to leave on a safari to find the fabled elephants' graveyard. The former's daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly and despite paternal protests insists on accompanying them. In the face of hostile...

6.7

21K votes

6.7

21K votes

Ransom!

1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal

Cast Glenn Ford · Donna Reed · Leslie Nielsen · Juano Hernández

Synopsis The Stannard's son is kidnapped for ransom. Plot centres around Ford's (the father) efforts to find him.

6.3

183 votes

6.3

183 votes

The Rifleman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Arnold Laven · Arthur H. Nadel · Gene Nelson

Cast Chuck Connors · Johnny Crawford · Paul Fix · Bill Quinn

Synopsis The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized Winchester rifle.

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Tarzan Finds a Son!

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Johnny Sheffield · Ian Hunter

Synopsis A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young...

6.0

8K votes

6.0

8K votes

Tarzan Escapes

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · John Buckler · Benita Hume

Synopsis White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.

5.9

881 votes

5.9

881 votes

5.8

75 votes

Flying Down to Rio

1933 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Dolores del Rio · Gene Raymond · Raul Roulien · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His...

5.8

310 votes

5.8

310 votes

Tokyo Joe

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

5.7

116 votes

5.7

116 votes

Killers of Kilimanjaro

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Anthony Newley · Anne Aubrey · Grégoire Aslan

Synopsis An engineer must overcome local tribesmen, Arab slave traders and wild animals to build the first East African railway

5.5

134 votes

5.5

134 votes

The Invisible Boy

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Herman Hoffman

Cast Richard Eyer · Philip Abbott · Diane Brewster · Harold J. Stone

Synopsis Timmie is a typical ten-year-old boy: he loves fun and mischief and hates to study. When his scientist father, in an attempt to improve Timmie's mind, plops him in front of the Super Computer, the boy learns more than how...

5.1

54 votes

5.1

54 votes

Tarzan's Savage Fury

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Lex Barker · Dorothy Hart · Patric Knowles · Charles Korvin

Synopsis Tarzan's cousin comes to Africa in hopes that Tarzan will help him secure a fortune in diamonds essential to England's military security. The cousin is immediately killed off by his guide Rokov who persuades Edwards to impersonate the cousin. Joey...

5.0

74 votes

5.0

74 votes

Law of the Plainsman (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Paul Landres · William F. Claxton · John Peyser · Bobby Gordon

Cast Michael Ansara · Dayton Lummis · Nora Marlowe · Gina Gillespie

Synopsis Sam Buckhart was an Apache Indian who had saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was used for an education at private schools and Harvard University....

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Bride of Vengeance

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Paulette Goddard · John Lund · Macdonald Carey · Albert Dekker

Synopsis The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the...

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Limehouse Blues

1934 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast George Raft · Jean Parker · Anna May Wong · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket,...

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Affairs of a Gentleman

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed

Synopsis When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

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Not rated

They Gave Him a Gun

1937 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Spencer Tracy · Gladys George · Franchot Tone · Edgar Dearing

Synopsis Jimmy is drafted and ends up in Fred's troop on his way to Europe. Jimmy becomes vicious with his gun, wins a medal, and weds Fred's nurse girlfriend, Rose. Back home years later, Rose discovers Jimmy is a gangster, has...

Not rated

Not rated

Empire (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Kathleen Hite · Bernard McEveety · Abner Biberman · John Farrow

Cast Richard Egan · Ryan O'Neal · Anne Seymour · Terry Moore

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1964). 33 Episodes. Jim Redigo is foreman for the enormous Garrett Ranch owned by matriarch Lucia with her children Tal and Constance. Redigo had his hands full managing people, machines, and animals with a specific interest in the...

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Live, Love and Learn

1937 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Robert Montgomery · Rosalind Russell · Robert Benchley · Helen Vinson

Synopsis Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the constant company of close friend...

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Not rated