Screenplay: Bill S. Ballinger

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bill S. Ballinger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Pushover

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Fred MacMurray · Phil Carey · Kim Novak · Dorothy Malone

Plot A bank heist yields $210,000. Soon, sultry Lona McLane, girlfriend of one of the robbers, meets Paul Sheridan and has a torrid affair. When she finds out Paul's a cop,...

7.2

859 votes

7.2

859 votes

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Allen Baron · Alexander Grasshoff · Don McDougall

Cast Darren McGavin · Simon Oakland · Jack Grinnage · Ruth McDevitt

Plot A newspaper reporter investigates strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago.

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

The Strangler

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Burt Topper

Cast Victor Buono · David McLean · Diane Sayer · Davey Davison

Plot Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses. He feels that in some twisted way, that he is...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Wicked as They Come

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Arlene Dahl · Phil Carey · Herbert Marshall · Michael Goodliffe

Plot A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

Operation C.I.A.

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby

Cast Burt Reynolds · Danielle Aubry · John Hoyt · Kieu Chinh

Plot Secret Agent Mark Andrews is sent to Saigon where he prevents the assassination of the American Ambassador.

Not rated

Not rated

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Road Hog (TV)

1959 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Rosenberg

Cast Raymond Massey · Robert Emhardt · Ray Teal · Richard Chamberlain

Plot A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.

Not rated

Not rated

The Aquanauts (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Friedkin · David Orrick McDearmon · John Rich · Allen H. Miner

Cast Ron Ely · Keith Larsen · Jeremy Slate · Joyce Meadows

Plot Professional salvage divers Larry and Drake (later replaced by Mike) made their livings braving the dangers of the deep recovering sunken wrecks off the Southern California coast. Frequently, these assignments...

Not rated

Not rated

Alfred Hitchcock presents: Dry Run (TV)

1959 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Walter Matthau · Robert Vaughn · David White · Tyler McVey

Plot A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man, but the intended victim tempts him with another offer.

Not rated

Not rated

Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Day of the Bullet (TV)

1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Norman Lloyd

Cast Barry Gordon · Glenn Walken · John Craven · Alfred Hitchcock

Plot When a young boy reports a mob beating to the police, and his father does not encourage him, he is adversely affected for the rest of his life.

Not rated

Not rated

The Tooth and the Nail

2017 · Movie · 109 min. · South Korea

Direction Jeong Sik · Kim Whee

Cast Go Soo · Kim Ju-hyuk · Park Sung-woong · Moon Sung-Geun

Plot Seok-jin, a magician working in a club, one day meets a mysterious woman, Ha-yeon. She starts working as an assistant in Seok-jin's show and soon they get engaged. However Ha-yeon...

Not rated

Not rated