Screenplay: Dudley Nichols

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


Scarlet Street

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Dan Duryea · Jess Baker

Plot Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his shrieking harpy of...

8.2

13K votes

8.2

13K votes

Bringing Up Baby

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Plot David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting...

8.0

31K votes

8.0

31K votes

Stagecoach

1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Thomas Mitchell · Andy Devine

Plot A stagecoach is set to leave Tonto, New Mexico, for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with...

8.0

26K votes

8.0

26K votes

This Land is Mine

1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · George Sanders · Walter Slezak

Plot A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The Informer

1935 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster · Margot Grahame

Plot A brutish but well-meaning Irishman, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), informs on his best friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who is a member of the Irish Republican Army, in order to...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

The Big Sky

1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Kirk Douglas · Dewey Martin · Steven Geray · Elizabeth Threatt

Plot Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Tin Star

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray

Plot Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Swamp Water

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Dana Andrews · Walter Brennan · Anne Baxter · Walter Huston

Plot "Butt-headed" Dana Andrews sets off into the Okefenokee swamp to look for his lost dog, despite his father's threat to disown him if he's not back in two days. He...

7.1

858 votes

7.1

858 votes

Man Hunt

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Plot British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Rawhide

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Susan Hayward · Hugh Marlowe · Edgar Buchanan

Plot At an Arizona stagecoach stop, an attendant and a stranded female passenger with her baby are kept hostages by a band of escaped criminals. Their goal is to rob the...

6.9

581 votes

6.9

581 votes

The Hurricane

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed...

6.8

747 votes

6.8

747 votes

The Lost Patrol

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Boris Karloff · Wallace Ford · Reginald Denny

Plot A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

It Happened Tomorrow

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Dick Powell · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Edgar Kennedy

Plot An ambitious newspaper reporter, eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man grants the reporter that power, even as he...

6.7

614 votes

6.7

614 votes

The Long Voyage Home

1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond

Plot Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy...

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6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

And Then There Were None

1945 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Walter Huston · Roland Young · Louis Hayward · June Duprez

Plot Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Judge Priest

1934 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Will Rogers · Tom Brown · Anita Louise · Henry B. Walthall

Plot A judge sees fair play when tackling prejudices and injustices in a small American town.

6.7

859 votes

6.7

859 votes

Pinky

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Jeanne Crain · Ethel Barrymore · Ethel Waters · William Lundigan

Plot Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing"...

6.7

362 votes

6.7

362 votes

Bells of St. Mary's

1945 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Ingrid Bergman · Henry Travers · William Gargan

Plot Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the...

6.7

826 votes

6.7

826 votes

The Crusades

1935 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Loretta Young · Henry Wilcoxon · Ian Keith · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot The Third Crusade as it didn't happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get...

6.7

303 votes

6.7

303 votes

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

6.7

395 votes

6.7

395 votes