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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