Screenplay: John Meredyth Lucas

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Meredyth Lucas. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Dark City

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Viveca Lindfors · Dean Jagger

Synopsis Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town,...

6.6

495 votes

6.6

495 votes

Zorro (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hollingsworth Morse · Charles Barton · Norman Foster · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Guy Williams · Gene Sheldon · Henry Calvin · Don Diamond

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1959). 3 Seasons. 82 Episodes. The only son of Don Alejandro returns to 1820s California to fight the corrupt local military. He plays...

6.5

934 votes

6.5

934 votes

Star Trek (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 47 min. · United States

Direction Gene Roddenberry · Marc Daniels · Joseph Pevney · Vincent McEveety

Cast William Shatner · Leonard Nimoy · DeForest Kelley · Grace Lee Whitney

Synopsis TV Series (1966-1969). 3 Seasons. 80 Episodes. Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise explore space and defend the United Federation of...

6.3

16K votes

6.3

16K votes

The Scarlet Hour

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Carol Ohmart · Tom Tryon · Jody Lawrance · James Gregory

Synopsis A love triangle gets dangerous when murder is considered.

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

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Medical Center (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Glicksman · Al C. Ward · Vincent Sherman · Earl Bellamy

Cast Chad Everett · James Daly · Chris Hutson · Barbara Baldavin

Synopsis TV Series (1969-1976). 170 episodes. Located in the Los Angeles area, Medical Center was an otherwise unnamed hospital complex that was part of a large...

6.2

94 votes

6.2

94 votes

Mannix (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Paul Krasny · Sutton Roley

Cast Mike Connors · Gail Fisher · Ward Wood · Ron Nyman

Synopsis Considered one of the most violent television series of its era, "Mannix" followed the adventures of L.A. private eye Joe Mannix, who first worked for...

6.2

107 votes

6.2

107 votes

Direction Richard Donner · Richard Irving · Ernest Pintoff · Lionel E. Siegel

Cast Lee Majors · Richard Anderson · Lindsay Wagner · Martin E. Brooks

Synopsis Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who had walked on the moon, is almost fatally injured in a plane crash. Many of his damaged...

5.5

451 votes

5.5

451 votes

Red Mountain

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle · John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Lizabeth Scott · Arthur Kennedy · John Ireland

Synopsis Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent...

5.5

120 votes

5.5

120 votes

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Tumbleweed

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Audie Murphy · Lori Nelson · Chill Wills · Roy Roberts

Synopsis Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping...

5.3

102 votes

5.3

102 votes

City Beneath the Sea (TV)

1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen

Cast Stuart Whitman · Robert Wagner · Rosemary Forsyth · Robert Colbert

Synopsis A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. They find that they must defend their city against hostile alien forces.

4.4

75 votes

4.4

75 votes

Inferno in Paradise

1974 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Ed Forsyth

Cast Richard Young · Betty Ann Carr · Jim Davis · Andy Jarrell

Synopsis Jim Davis plays the chief of Hawaii's fire-fighting forces battling to track down a maniacal arsonist who seems to strike without pattern or reason.

Not rated

Not rated

My Blood Runs Cold

1965 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction William Conrad

Cast Troy Donahue · Joey Heatherton · Barry Sullivan · Nicolas Coster

Synopsis Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben...

Not rated

Not rated

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The Sign of Zorro

1958 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster · Norman Foster

Cast Guy Williams · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon · Romney Brent

Synopsis In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a...

Not rated

Not rated

The Starlost (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · Canada

Direction Joseph L. Scanlan · Ed Richardson · Harvey Hart · George McCowan

Cast Keir Dullea · Gay Rowan · Robin Ward · William Osler

Synopsis This very low budget TV show (which was shot on video, as opposed to film, as most regular TV shows are) involved a giant spaceship...

Not rated

Not rated

Medic (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James E. Moser

Cast Richard Boone · Mary Stewart · Jean Engstrom · Robert Bray

Synopsis TV Series (1954-1956). 2 seasons. 59 episodes. Highlights the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors and surgeons headed by Dr. Konrad Styner...

Not rated

Not rated

Nero Wolfe (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction George McCowan · Edward M. Abroms · Herbert Hirschman · Michael O'Herlihy

Cast William Conrad · Lee Horsley · George Voskovec · Robert Coote

Synopsis The short-lived adventures of portly detective Nero Wolfe, who would rather eat and tend to his orchids than hit the streets tracking down leads. That's...

Not rated

Not rated

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Sekai daisensô

1961 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Frankie Sakai · Akira Takarada · Yuriko Hoshi · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Not rated

Not rated

Peking Express

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Joseph Cotten · Corinne Calvet · Edmund Gwenn · Benson Fong

Synopsis A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

Not rated

Not rated

Pony Express (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald · Jean Yarbrough · Franklin Adreon · Lewis R. Foster

Cast Grant Sullivan · Don Dorrell · Boyd 'Red' Morgan · Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis Adventures of an itinerant researcher and a young rider, while solving mysteries in the 1860 Pony Express.

Not rated

Not rated

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