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
Direction Elmer Clifton · Ida Lupino
Cast Sally Forrest · Keefe Brasselle · Leo Penn · Dorothy Adams
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
The Day That Shook the World
1975 · Movie · 119 min. · Yugoslavia
Direction Veljko Bulajic
Cast Christopher Plummer · Florinda Bolkan · Maximilian Schell · Irfan Mensur
6.1
83 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)
Direction José Luis Madrid
Cast Lex Barker · Joachim Fuchsberger · Marianne Koch · Ralf Wolter
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
Direction Gregory Ratoff · Laslo Benedek
Cast Robert Taylor · Susan Peters · John Hodiak · Robert Benchley
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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...
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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...
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