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

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