Screenplay: Budd Schulberg

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Budd Schulberg. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


On the Waterfront

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he...

8.1

28K votes

8.1

28K votes

The Harder They Fall

1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane

Plot Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

A Face in the Crowd

1957 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Andy Griffith · Patricia Neal · Lee Remick · Anthony Franciosa

Plot A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Plot When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

December 7th

1943 · Documentary · 82 min. · United States

Direction John Ford · Gregg Toland

Cast Walter Huston · Harry Davenport · Dana Andrews · Paul Hurst

Plot "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to...

6.3

64 votes

6.3

64 votes

Wind Across the Everglades

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray · Budd Schulberg

Cast Burl Ives · Christopher Plummer · Chana Eden · Gypsy Rose Lee

Plot In early 1900s Florida, an agent (Christopher Plummer) faces off with the leader of one band of bird-hunters (Burl Ives) in this fictionalized account of the the Audubon Society battle...

6.3

335 votes

6.3

335 votes

City Without Men

1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Linda Darnell · Edgar Buchanan · Michael Duane · Sara Allgood

Plot A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves...

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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford

Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King

Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.

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Government Girl

1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Sonny Tufts · Anne Shirley · Jess Baker

Plot Washington DC in the war. The machinery of government is a hive of endless if not seamless activity. Arnament production is the name of the game, by fair means or...

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Not rated

Winter Carnival

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Ann Sheridan · Richard Carlson · Helen Parrish · James Corner

Plot This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from a count who has returned to her alma mater for...

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Not rated

The Nazi Plan

1945 · Documentary · 127 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Hermann Göring · Adolf Hitler · Reed Hadley

Plot Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

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Sunday Showcase (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal · John Frankenheimer · Alex March · Delbert Mann

Cast Robert Emhardt · Milton Berle · Jimmy Durante · Larry Blyden

Plot TV Series (1959-1960). A show featuring various specials. Some specials were comedy and others were serious drama by famous authors.

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Weekend for Three

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Jane Wyatt · Phillip Reed · Edward Everett Horton

Plot A young married couple's weekend is interrupted by the arrival of a brash, loud-mouthed acquaintance of the wife, who knew her before her marriage. He immediately proceeds to turn their...

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Not rated