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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