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

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...

Max

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

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.

Not rated

Not rated

Caesar's Hour (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States

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Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated