Screenplay: N. Richard Nash
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by N. Richard Nash. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Nora Prentiss
1947 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast Ann Sheridan · Kent Smith · Bruce Bennett · Robert Alda
Plot Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is...
6.8
116 votes
6.8
116 votes
Porgy and Bess
1959 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey
Plot In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break...
6.6
141 votes
6.6
141 votes
The Rainmaker
1956 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Anthony
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Burt Lancaster · Wendell Corey · Lloyd Bridges
Plot A screen adaptation of N. Richard Nash's hit Broadway play. In this cornfed romantic comedy, a poetry-spouting scam artist arrives on a Western ranch claiming he can conjure up rain....
6.3
592 votes
6.3
592 votes
Mara Maru
1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Errol Flynn · Ruth Roman · Raymond Burr · Paul Picerni
Plot Greg Mason, salvage diver in the Philippines, finds his partner Andy drunk and raving about treasure. Whatever it is, somebody wants it badly enough to kill Andy and frame Mason...
5.7
68 votes
5.7
68 votes
Cry Macho
2021 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Eduardo Minett · Natalia Traven · Horacio García Rojas
Plot A onetime rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing...
5.2
6K votes
5.2
6K votes
Here Come the Brides (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Paul Junger Witt · E.W. Swackhamer · Richard Kinon
Cast Robert Brown · Bobby Sherman · David Soul · Mark Lenard
Plot The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States...
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Bintang Kejora
1986 · Movie · 88 min. · Indonesia
Direction Chaerul Umam
Cast El Manik · Ikranagara · Mang Udel · Rini S. Bono
Plot Bintang Kejora is a peddler of all kinds of ointments and remedies. In a modern cosmopolis like Jakarta, he might be regarded as a charlatan of sorts. Our story begins...
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One Summer Love
1976 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Gilbert Cates
Cast Beau Bridges · Susan Sarandon · James Noble · Ann Wedgeworth
Plot A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
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Top of the World
1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast Dale Robertson · Evelyn Keyes · Frank Lovejoy · Nancy Gates
Plot Action and romance are combined with an Arctic setting as Robertson, an angered and aging WW II pilot, is sent to Alaska to help Lovejoy set up a weather post....
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The Rainmaker (TV)
1982 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Lonny Chapman · James Cromwell · Tommy Lee Jones · William Katt
Plot Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm and perhaps a romance for 'spinster sister' Lizzie
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The Parade (TV)
1984 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Peter H. Hunt
Cast Michael Learned · Frederic Forrest · Rosanna Arquette · Maxwell Caulfield
Plot Set in a small town in Kansas during the days before the town's annual Fourth of July parade, this rural drama follows Rachel Kirby whose life is thrown into turmoil...
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The Flying Missile
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Glenn Ford · Viveca Lindfors · Henry O'Neill · Carl Benton Reid
Plot Fictional account of the role played by a somewhat impetuous US Naval commander in developing the first means of launching missiles from submarines.
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Welcome Stranger
1947 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Joan Caulfield · Wanda Hendrix
Plot Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted...
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Dear Wife
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Richard Haydn
Cast William Holden · Joan Caulfield · Billy De Wolfe · Mona Freeman
Plot Sequel of "Dear Ruth".
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