Screenplay: Paul Jarrico

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


The Search

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Montgomery Clift · Aline MacMahon · Wendell Corey · Jarmila Novotna

Plot A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy's mother,...

7.1

719 votes

7.1

719 votes

The Face Behind the Mask

1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Peter Lorre · Evelyn Keyes · Don Beddoe · George E. Stone

Plot A disfigured watchmaker with a grudge against society embarks on a life of crime.

6.9

116 votes

6.9

116 votes

Not Wanted

1949 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

6.8

71 votes

6.8

71 votes

Five Branded Women

1960 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Vera Miles · Silvana Mangano · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer...

6.3

100 votes

6.3

100 votes

All Night Long

1962 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Keith Michell · Betsy Blair · Paul Harris

Plot The film, based on Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best Jazz musicians of the period - including Dave Brubeck and Charlie Mingus.

6.2

68 votes

6.2

68 votes

6.1

83 votes

The White Tower

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Glenn Ford · Alida Valli · Claude Rains · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot The White Tower, a Matterhorn-like mountain in the Swiss Alps, has never been climbed. Carla Alten's father, a famous mountaineer, died in a long-ago attempt. Now, Carla, determined to fulfill...

5.6

185 votes

5.6

185 votes

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Claude Rains · Marius Goring · Märta Torén · Ferdy Mayne

Plot Meak head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with Parisian girl...

5.5

52 votes

5.5

52 votes

Tom Dick and Harry

1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Ginger Rogers · George Murphy · Alan Marshal · Burgess Meredith

Plot Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be...

5.5

69 votes

5.5

69 votes

Thousands Cheer

1943 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Gene Kelly · Mary Astor · John Boles

Plot Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval...

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

The Girl Most Likely

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jane Powell · Cliff Robertson · Keith Andes · Kaye Ballard

Plot Dotie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He...

4.8

27 votes

4.8

27 votes

The Day the Hot Line Got Hot

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Etienne Périer

Cast Robert Taylor · Charles Boyer · George Chakiris · Marie Dubois

Plot The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to...

4.7

30 votes

4.7

30 votes

Messenger of Death

1988 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Charles Bronson · Trish Van Devere · Laurence Luckinbill · Daniel Benzali

Plot Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any...

4.5

490 votes

4.5

490 votes

Who Killed Johnny R.?

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

3.9

102 votes

3.9

102 votes

Men of the Timberland

1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Linda Hayes · Francis McDonald

Plot A villainous lumber operator is exposed by a forestry inspector after bribery and the murder of two assistants.

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Song of Russia

1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

Beauty for the Asking

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Tryon

Cast Lucille Ball · Patric Knowles · Donald Woods · Frieda Inescort

Plot It tells the story of Jean Russell (Ball), who becomes romantically involved with a wealthy married man (Knowles) who later spurns her. She later invents a new facial cream, and...

Not rated

Not rated

Little Giant

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Brenda Joyce · Jacqueline deWit

Plot Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that...

Not rated

Not rated