Screenplay: Robert Smith
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Sudden Fear
1952 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Palance · Gloria Grahame · Bruce Bennett
Plot Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On...
7.1
832 votes
7.1
832 votes
99 River Street
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast John Payne · Evelyn Keyes · Brad Dexter · Frank Faylen
Plot Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her...
7.1
426 votes
7.1
426 votes
The Second Woman
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction James V. Kern
Cast Robert Young · Betsy Drake · John Sutton · Florence Bates
Plot In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff,...
6.3
169 votes
6.3
169 votes
The Five Pennies
1959 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Melville Shavelson
Cast Danny Kaye · Barbara Bel Geddes · Louis Armstrong · Harry Guardino
Plot Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's...
6.2
119 votes
6.2
119 votes
The Lonely Man
1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Jack Palance · Anthony Perkins · Neville Brand · Robert Middleton
Plot Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him.
6.2
125 votes
6.2
125 votes
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Eugène Lourié
Cast Paul Hubschmid · Paula Raymond · Cecil Kellaway · Kenneth Tobey
Plot A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and ultimately New York City.
6.1
651 votes
6.1
651 votes
Quicksand
1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Mickey Rooney · Jeanne Cagney · Peter Lorre · Barbara Bates
Plot After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register to invite a waitress Vera (Jeanne Cagney), auto mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances...
6.0
150 votes
6.0
150 votes
The Big Wheel
1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Mickey Rooney · Thomas Mitchell · Mary Hatcher · Michael O'Shea
Plot The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
5.0
75 votes
5.0
75 votes
Xtro
1982 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harry Bromley Davenport
Cast Philip Sayer · Bernice Stegers · Danny Brainin · Maryam d'Abo
Plot Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion...
4.6
638 votes
4.6
638 votes
Xtro II: The Second Encounter
1990 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Harry Bromley Davenport
Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · Paul Koslo · Tara Buckman · Jano Frandsen
Plot Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers are the first to go through the gate - but are soon attacked...
2.6
103 votes
2.6
103 votes
Platinum High School
1960 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Charles F. Haas
Cast Mickey Rooney · Terry Moore · Dan Duryea · Yvette Mimieux
Plot This film takes place at an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island (played by Catalina Island) attended by rich young delinquents who think money puts them above the law. Enter...
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Invasion USA
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Gerald Mohr · Peggie Castle · Dan O'Herlihy · Robert Brice
Plot Five people are sitting in a New York bar with a mysterious Mr. Ohman, when they hear the news that the godless Communists are invading the good ol' U.S. of...
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Spyship (TV Miniseries)
1983 · Series · 330 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Custance
Cast Tom Wilkinson · Peter Eyre · Lesley Nightingale · Michael Aldridge
Plot TV miniseries. 6 episodes. Suspicions are aroused when a British trawler goes missing. Tom Wilkinson stars in the BBC's surprising Cold War drama, inspired by true events.
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The Dress (S)
1984 · Movie · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Eva Sereny
Cast Michael Palin · Derrick Branche · Elisabeth Croft · Stephen Matthew Davies
Plot A mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.
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St. Louis Blues
1958 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Allen Reisner
Cast Nat 'King' Cole · Eartha Kitt · Cab Calloway · Ella Fitzgerald
Plot Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't...
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You Came Along
1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Robert Cummings · Lizabeth Scott · Don DeFore · Charles Drake
Plot War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town...
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The Big Operator
1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Charles F. Haas
Cast Mickey Rooney · Steve Cochran · Mamie Van Doren · Mel Torme
Plot Bill Gibson is Little Joe's nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating conversation with a known criminal -...
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Girls Town
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Charles F. Haas
Cast Mamie Van Doren · Mel Torme · Ray Anthony · Margaret Hayes
Plot Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes...
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Paris Model
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Marilyn Maxwell · Paulette Goddard · Eva Gabor · Barbara Lawrence
Plot The story of a dress and the effects it has on the women who wear it begs the question of where is O.Henry when he is needed. "Nude at Midnight",...
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The Buster Keaton Story
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Sheldon
Cast Donald O´Connor · Ann Blyth · Rhonda Fleming · Peter Lorre
Plot Buster Keaton leaves his family vaudeville act for the movies. He starts out as a bit player but quickly becomes famous as he acts in and directs his own films....
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