Screenplay: George Wells

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


Party Girl

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Taylor · Cyd Charisse · Lee J. Cobb · John Ireland

Plot Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle....

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Designing Woman

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Plot On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Summer Stock

1950 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Eddie Bracken · Gloria DeHaven

Plot A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.

6.6

156 votes

6.6

156 votes

I Love Melvin

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Una Merkel · Richard Anderson

Plot Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do...

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

The Gazebo

1959 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Glenn Ford · Debbie Reynolds · Carl Reiner · John McGiver

Plot TV writer Elliot Nash (Glenn Ford) is happily married to Broadway star Nell (Debbie Reynolds), when a blackmailer arrives on the scene with photos of young Nell in her birthday...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

Take Me out to the Ball Game

1949 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Frank Sinatra · Esther Williams · Gene Kelly · Jules Munshin

Plot The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team....

6.2

166 votes

6.2

166 votes

The Honeymoon Machine

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Steve McQueen · Brigid Bazlen · Jim Hutton · Paula Prentiss

Plot McQueen is an American sailor stationed in Venice who joins forces with scientist Hutton in an elaborate scheme to use a Navy computer to win at the roulette table. In-between...

6.0

345 votes

6.0

345 votes

The Hucksters

1947 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Deborah Kerr · Sydney Greenstreet · Adolphe Menjou

Plot Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and...

6.0

102 votes

6.0

102 votes

Three Little Words

1950 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Fred Astaire · Red Skelton · Vera-Ellen · Arlene Dahl

Plot Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry...

6.0

70 votes

6.0

70 votes

Penelope

1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Natalie Wood · Ian Bannen · Dick Shawn · Peter Falk

Plot Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.

5.7

75 votes

5.7

75 votes

Angels in the Outfield

1951 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Paul Douglas · Janet Leigh · Keenan Wynn · Donna Corcoran

Plot A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. While she attempts to learn more about him for her column, he begins hearing the...

5.5

22 votes

5.5

22 votes

Till the Clouds Roll By

1946 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Richard Whorf · Vincente Minnelli · George Sidney

Cast Judy Garland · June Allyson · Frank Sinatra · Van Johnson

Plot Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous:...

5.5

165 votes

5.5

165 votes

Ask Any Girl

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast David Niven · Shirley MacLaine · Gig Young · Rod Taylor

Plot When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job in a marketing firm run by brothers Miles and Evan Doughton....

5.4

30 votes

5.4

30 votes

It's a Big Country

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan

Plot The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

Don't Go Near the Water

1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Glenn Ford · Gia Scala · Earl Holliman · Anne Francis

Plot On a small island in the South Pacific, the Navy's P.R. department is spending WWII without getting near a ship. Lt. Max Siegal is the Second in command to a...

5.1

29 votes

5.1

29 votes

Lovely to Look at

1952 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Red Skelton · Howard Keel · Marge Champion

Plot Al Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby, Broadway producers, are desperately looking for backers. Al is one of the heirs of a dress salon in Paris, but this is almost...

5.1

35 votes

5.1

35 votes

Where the Boys Are

1960 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Dolores Hart · George Hamilton · Yvette Mimieux · Jim Hutton

Plot Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.

4.9

24 votes

4.9

24 votes

Angels in the Outfield

1994 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction William Dear

Cast Danny Glover · Tony Danza · Christopher Lloyd · Brenda Fricker

Plot Roger who has lost his mother is living separated from his father. As he and his friend J.P. are one of the biggest fans of the Los Angeles baseball team...

4.6

1K votes

4.6

1K votes

The Toast of New Orleans

1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Mario Lanza · David Niven · J. Carrol Naish

Plot Snooty opera singer (Kathryn Grayson) meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman (Mario Lanza) in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent (David Niven) lures him away to New Orleans...

Not rated

Not rated

Cover Me Babe

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Noel Black

Cast Robert Forster · Sondra Locke · Susanne Benton · Robert Fields

Plot Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.

Not rated

Not rated