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...
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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.
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