Screenplay: Dudley Nichols
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 57
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...
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
Direction John Ford
Cast Will Rogers · Anne Shirley · Irvin S. Cobb · Eugene Pallette
6.7
395 votes
6.7
395 votes