Screenplay: Larry Gelbart
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Larry Gelbart. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
M*A*S*H (MASH) (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Richard Hooker · Charles S. Dubin · Alan Alda · Burt Metcalfe
Cast Alan Alda · Loretta Swit · William Christopher · Gary Burghoff
Plot TV Series (1972-1983). 11 Seasons. 251 Episodes. War (Korean War). The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes
Tootsie
1982 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Dustin Hoffman · Jessica Lange · Geena Davis · Charles Durning
Plot When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as...
7.1
40K votes
7.1
40K votes
The Notorious Landlady
1962 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Richard Quine
Cast Kim Novak · Jack Lemmon · Fred Astaire · Estelle Winwood
6.6
743 votes
6.6
743 votes
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Zero Mostel · Phil Silvers · Buster Keaton · Michael Crawford
Plot Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Barbarians at the Gate (TV)
1993 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast James Garner · Jonathan Pryce · Peter Riegert · Joanna Cassidy
Plot Johnson's bid for the company is opposed by two of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis (who is played by Jonathan Pryce), and his cousin George R. Roberts....
6.2
43 votes
6.2
43 votes
Movie Movie
1978 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast George C. Scott · Harry Hamlin · Trish Van Devere · Eli Wallach
Plot A double feature spoof of the typical 1930s: "Dynamite Fists" and "Blansky's Beauties of 1933".
6.1
212 votes
6.1
212 votes
The Wrong Box
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bryan Forbes
Cast John Mills · Michael Caine · Ralph Richardson · Peter Cook
Plot A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is...
5.8
220 votes
5.8
220 votes
Oh, God!
1977 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Carl Reiner
Cast John Denver · George Burns · Teri Garr · Donald Pleasence
Plot Jerry, a assistant grocery manager (John Denver) is approached by God to help spread his message. Reluctant at first, Jerry finally ends up in a court case involving the slander...
5.7
122 votes
5.7
122 votes
Blame It on Rio
1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Michael Caine · Joseph Bologna · Demi Moore · Michelle Johnson
Plot Caine plays a man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Caine falls for the amorous daughter (played by Michelle Johnson)...
5.4
3K votes
5.4
3K votes
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV)
2003 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Bruce Beresford
Cast Antonio Banderas · Alan Arkin · Colm Feore · Jim Broadbent
Plot Banderas delivers a powerful, larger-than-life performance as the title character of this extraordinary story from HBO Films, which reveals how Mexican Revolutionary Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him...
5.4
440 votes
5.4
440 votes
Not with My Wife, You Don't!
1966 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Norman Panama
Cast Tony Curtis · Virna Lisi · George C. Scott · Carroll O'Connor
Plot During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott...
5.1
53 votes
5.1
53 votes
Rough Cut
1980 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Burt Reynolds · Lesley-Anne Down · David Niven · Timothy West
5.1
104 votes
5.1
104 votes
Neighbors
1981 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction John G. Avildsen
Cast John Belushi · Dan Aykroyd · Cathy Moriarty · Kathryn Walker
Plot The Keeses (Belushi and Walker) live in a quiet, middle-class suburban neighborhood where life is calm and sweet. But their new neighbors, Ramona and Vic (Aykroyd and Moriarty), prove to...
4.9
436 votes
4.9
436 votes
A Fine Pair
1968 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Maselli
Cast Rock Hudson · Claudia Cardinale · Leon Askin · Walter Giller
Plot A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a...
4.6
85 votes
4.6
85 votes
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy
Direction Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast Tony Curtis · Monica Vitti · Hugh Griffith · John Richardson
Plot For three nights of abstinence after their wedding with the youg virgin Boccadoro (Monica Vitti), hot-bloded Sir Guerraldo (Tony Curtis) is persuaded by many means to keep a cool head...
4.5
32 votes
4.5
32 votes
Bedazzled
2000 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Harold Ramis
Cast Brendan Fraser · Elizabeth Hurley · Frances O'Connor · Orlando Jones
Plot Elliot Richards is a well-meaning but socially inept technical-support advisor who is in love with Alison Gardner, a female co-worker. Unfortunately she barely knows he's alive. Desperate to gain Alison's...
4.4
26K votes
4.4
26K votes
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen (TV)
1983 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Alan Alda
Cast Alan Alda · Mike Farrell · Harry Morgan · Loretta Swit
Plot In the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.
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After MASH (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Burt Metcalfe · Nick Havinga · Larry Gelbart · Will Mackenzie
Cast Harry Morgan · Jamie Farr · William Christopher · Rosalind Chao
Plot (1983-1984). 2 seasons. The Korean War has ended. Colonel Potter, Sergeant Klinger, and Father Mulcahy find themselves together once again, this time at a veteran's hospital.
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Caesar's Hour (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Clark Jones · Frank Bunetta
Cast Sid Caesar · Carl Reiner · Howard Morris · Janet Blair
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United States (TV Series)
1980 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Gary Markowitz · Will Mackenzie
Cast Beau Bridges · Helen Shaver · Justin Dana · Ross Harris
Plot TV Series (1980-). 13 Episodes. Short lived (6 weeks) sitcom about Richard and Libby Chapin and their two children Dylan and Nicky. The show differed from other sitcoms in that...
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