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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (TV)

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

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).

Not rated

Not rated