Screenplay: Liam O'Brien

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Liam O'Brien. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Diplomatic Courier

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Patricia Neal · Stephen McNally · Hildegard Knef

Plot Department of State courier Mike Kelly ends up in postwar hotbed Trieste after failing to collect a package from a colleague. The Military Police are happy for him to get...

6.5

310 votes

6.5

310 votes

Trapeze

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Gina Lollobrigida · Katy Jurado

Plot Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Devil at Four O'Clock

1961 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Spencer Tracy · Frank Sinatra · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Kerwin Mathews

Plot When a volcano erupts near a children's hospital in the South Pacific, three convicts and a priest must rescue the patients and staff. This forerunner of the volcano disaster pics...

6.4

947 votes

6.4

947 votes

The Great Impostor

1961 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Tony Curtis · Edmond O'Brien · Karl Malden · Arthur O'Connell

Plot Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in...

6.2

184 votes

6.2

184 votes

Here Comes the Groom

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Franchot Tone · Alexis Smith

Plot Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston,...

6.0

247 votes

6.0

247 votes

The Redhead and the Cowboy

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Chain Lightning

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Eleanor Parker · Raymond Massey · Richard Whorf

Plot A World War II bomber pilot becomes a reckless barnstormer and finally, a daredevil test pilot. He attempts to reform his ways in order to win back his true love.

5.5

110 votes

5.5

110 votes

Johnny Midnight (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Liam O'Brien · John English · David Orrick McDearmon · Robert Stevens

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Yuki Shimoda · Arthur Batanides · Barney Phillips

Plot 39 Episodes. Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.

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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Clifton Webb · Dorothy McGuire · Charles Coburn · Jill St. John

Plot In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia,...

Not rated

Not rated

The Stars Are Singing

1953 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Rosemary Clooney · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Lauritz Melchior · Bob Williams

Plot A 15-year-old Polish girl (played by Alberghetti) attempts to enter the U.S. illegally, setting off a major search by immigration officials. She is befriended by a struggling group of New...

Not rated

Not rated