Screenplay: James Lee Barrett
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Lee Barrett. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Shenandoah
1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast James Stewart · Doug McClure · Glenn Corbett · Patrick Wayne
Plot Charlie Anderson is a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia and finds himself (and his family) in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Gene Kelly
Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Shirley Jones · Sue Ane Langdon
Plot John is working as a cow poke for very little money with his friend Harley when he gets word his brother, DJ, has left him The Cheyenne Social Club. He...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
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1970 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Nelson
Cast Jim Brown · George Kennedy · Fredric March · Lynn Carlin
Plot Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
6.3
65 votes
6.3
65 votes
The Undefeated
1969 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast John Wayne · Rock Hudson · Antonio Aguilar · Roman Gabriel
Plot After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing...
6.1
823 votes
6.1
823 votes
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Movie · 200 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens · David Lean · Jean Negulesco
Cast Max von Sydow · Dorothy McGuire · Charlton Heston · Claude Rains
Plot George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the...
6.0
3K votes
6.0
3K votes
Bandolero!
1968 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast James Stewart · Dean Martin · Raquel Welch · George Kennedy
Plot Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows.
5.8
533 votes
5.8
533 votes
Smokey and the Bandit
1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Hal Needham
Cast Burt Reynolds · Sally Field · Jerry Reed · Mike Henry
Plot Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to...
5.5
1K votes
5.5
1K votes
The Quick and the Dead (TV)
1987 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Robert Day
Cast Sam Elliott · Tom Conti · Kate Capshaw · Kenny Morrison
Plot A mysterious stranger rides into a homesteading family's life when they are attacked by a ruthless gang.
5.4
131 votes
5.4
131 votes
Fool's Parade
1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast James Stewart · George Kennedy · Anne Baxter · Strother Martin
Plot When an ex-con tries to open a general store, a corrupt prison official and banker try to get in the way. In 1935 Glory, West Virginia, convicts Mattie Appleyard, Lee...
5.4
224 votes
5.4
224 votes
April Morning (TV)
1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Robert Urich · Chad Lowe · Susan Blakely
Plot The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Faithful to author...
5.2
52 votes
5.2
52 votes
Something Big
1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast Dean Martin · Brian Keith · Carol White · Honor Blackman
Plot Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants...
4.9
146 votes
4.9
146 votes
The Truth About Spring
1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Hayley Mills · John Mills · James MacArthur · Lionel Jeffries
Plot Tommy Tyler a lazy Caribbean sailor and his tom-boy daughter, Spring are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer to help with...
4.7
39 votes
4.7
39 votes
Stagecoach (TV)
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Ted Post
Cast Willie Nelson · Kris Kristofferson · Johnny Cash · Waylon Jennings
Plot Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner...
4.6
71 votes
4.6
71 votes
The Green Berets
1968 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction John Wayne · Ray Kellogg
Cast John Wayne · David Janssen · Jim Hutton · Aldo Ray
Plot Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be...
4.5
1K votes
4.5
1K votes
Angel City (TV)
1980 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Philip Leacock · Steve Carver
Cast Ralph Waite · Paul Winfield · Jennifer Warren · Jennifer Jason Leigh
Plot Being forced to sell his land, Jared Teeter share with his family in search of a better life in Florida. They discover, like many other immigrants in Appalachia that work...
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Ruby Jean and Joe
1996 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Geoffrey Sax
Cast Tom Selleck · Rebekah Johnson · JoBeth Williams · Eilleen Seeley
Plot The elderly and fading rodeo-rider Joe Wade (Tom Selleck) picks up the young female hitchhiker Ruby Jean (Rebekah Johnson). Even though that Joe is constantly being corrected by Ruby Jean...
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The Awakening Land (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1978 · Series · 111 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal
Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · Hal Holbrook · Jane Seymour · Steven Keats
Plot 3 episodes. The storyline follows the struggle of Sayward Luckett (Montgomery) as she travels to the unsettled Ohio Valley wilderness from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania.
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (TV)
1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Anthony Hopkins · Richard Crenna · Jenny Agutter · Michael Beck
Plot In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. This movie tells the adventurous journey...
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (TV)
1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Marc Daniels
Cast Brad Davis · Roxanne Hart · Brad Dourif · Michael Beach
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Our House (TV Series)
1986 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction James Lee Barrett · Ray Austin · Chuck Arnold · Robert Scheerer
Cast Deidre Hall · Wilford Brimley · Shannen Doherty · Chad Allen
Plot TV Series (1986-1988).
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