Screenplay: Steve Fisher
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Steve Fisher. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Lund · Brian Donlevy · Audrey Totter · Joan Leslie
Plot Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate raider Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), and Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), virginal sister of Kate's ex-lover, saloonkeeper Bitteroot Bill (Reed Hadley). Sally herself falls...
7.3
47 votes
7.3
47 votes
Dead Reckoning
1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lizabeth Scott · Morris Carnovsky · Charles Cane
Plot After WWII, Rip Murdock's comrade in arms Johnny Drake disappears. Rip tries to track Johnny down and discovers a body burned beyond recognition that could be Johnny's. Rip discovers Johnny...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Destination Tokyo
1943 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast Cary Grant · John Garfield · Alan Hale · John Ridgely
Plot An American submarine is assigned to carry out a secret mission in Japanese waters.
6.6
921 votes
6.6
921 votes
I Wake Up Screaming
1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Betty Grable · Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Laird Cregar
Plot When chanteuse Vicky Lynn is found murdered the police bring in promoter Frankie Christopher for questioning. Frankie had been organising Vicky's career until she suddenly took a Hollywood offer just...
6.6
210 votes
6.6
210 votes
Roadblock
1951 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Harold Daniels
Cast Charles McGraw · Joan Dixon · Lowell Gilmore · Louis Jean Heydt
Plot An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her...
6.6
84 votes
6.6
84 votes
City That Never Sleeps
1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast Gig Young · Mala Powers · William Talman · Edward Arnold
Plot Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for...
6.5
86 votes
6.5
86 votes
Vicki
1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Harry Horner
Cast Jeanne Crain · Jean Peters · Richard Boone · Elliott Reid
Plot The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.
6.3
34 votes
6.3
34 votes
That's My Man
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Don Ameche · Catherine McLeod · Roscoe Karns · John Ridgely
Plot A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of...
6.2
44 votes
6.2
44 votes
Song Of The Thin Man
1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Keenan Wynn · Dean Stockwell
Plot In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly...
6.2
133 votes
6.2
133 votes
The Man From the Alamo
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Glenn Ford · Julie Adams · Hugh O´Brian · Chill Wills
6.2
824 votes
6.2
824 votes
Lady in the Lake
1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Robert Montgomery
Cast Robert Montgomery · Audrey Totter · Lloyd Nolan · Tom Tully
Plot The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have...
6.1
702 votes
6.1
702 votes
Johnny Angel
1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast George Raft · Claire Trevor · Signe Hasso · Lowell Gilmore
Plot Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in the search by Paulette, whose...
6.0
71 votes
6.0
71 votes
Susan Slept Here
1954 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Dick Powell · Debbie Reynolds · Anne Francis · Alvy Moore
Plot Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter (Dick Powell) who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquant Debbie Reynolds.
5.9
91 votes
5.9
91 votes
I Mobster
1958 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Roger Corman
Cast Steve Cochran · Lita Milan · Robert Strauss · Celia Lovsky
Plot Joe Sante wants to be the big man, and nobody is going stand in his way. In a world full of smoke, molls, shakedowns, muscle, and murder, Joe knows what...
5.9
27 votes
5.9
27 votes
Tokyo Joe
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa
Plot 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
The Restless Breed
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Scott Brady · Anne Bancroft · Rhys Williams · Jay C. Flippen
Plot A young lawyer comes to town looking to avenge his fathers murder and somehow becomes involved with a half breed indian girl.
5.6
289 votes
5.6
289 votes
36 Hours
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Dan Duryea · Elsie Albiin · Gudrun Ure · Eric Pohlmann
Plot An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
5.4
23 votes
5.4
23 votes
Hell's Half Acre
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast Wendell Corey · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester · Marie Windsor
Plot A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she...
5.2
22 votes
5.2
22 votes
Law of the Lawless
1964 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction William F. Claxton
Cast Dale Robertson · Yvonne De Carlo · William Bendix · Lon Chaney Jr.
Plot Clem Rogers, known as "the Hanging Judge" has come to Stone Junction, Kansas in 1889 to preside over the murder trial of Pete Stone, son of town ruler "Big Tom"...
5.1
77 votes
5.1
77 votes
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast John Payne · Maureen O'Hara · Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly
Plot Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash"...
5.0
94 votes
5.0
94 votes