Screenplay: William Ludwig

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


An American Romance

1944 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Brian Donlevy · Ann Richards · John Qualen · Walter Abel

Synopsis Stefan Dangos (Brian Donlevy) immigrates to America from the Czech Republic and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.

6.8

111 votes

6.8

111 votes

Love Crazy

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gail Patrick · Jack Carson

Synopsis Steve and Susan Ireland find nothing but trouble as they get ready to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. Susan catches Steve with his old girlfriend and mistakenly believes he is having an affair. So the shocked wife decides to get...

6.6

97 votes

6.6

97 votes

Interrupted Melody

1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

Oklahoma!

1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Synopsis Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as does she. They both love...

6.3

466 votes

6.3

466 votes

Blackmail

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Hussey · Gene Lockhart · Bobs Watson

Synopsis John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him...

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

Julia Misbehaves

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Peter Lawford · Elizabeth Taylor

Synopsis English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William (whom Julia never divorced.) When she gets an invitation to...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Back Street

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Susan Hayward · John Gavin · Vera Miles · Charles Drake

Synopsis Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and...

6.0

139 votes

6.0

139 votes

Gun Glory

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Stewart Granger · Rhonda Fleming · Chill Wills · Steve Rowland

Synopsis Granger plays a gallant gunslinger whose town is endangered when cattlemen threaten to run a large herd through its farmlands.

5.9

319 votes

5.9

319 votes

The Great Caruso

1951 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna

Synopsis Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because...

5.8

216 votes

5.8

216 votes

The Merry Widow

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Lana Turner · Fernando Lamas · Una Merkel · Richard Haydn

Synopsis This third big-screen version of "The Merry Widow" bolsters the story's appeal through the glamorous pairing of Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas. A handsome dignitary from a mythical land courts a wealthy, joyous widow in the hopes that she will...

5.6

166 votes

5.6

166 votes

It's a Big Country

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan

Synopsis The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

The Student Prince

1954 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Ann Blyth · Edmund Purdom · John Ericson · Louis Calhern

Synopsis A young Prince, Karl, from a small sub-kingdom of the German Empire near the turn of the 20th century is sent off to get a university education in Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg. His grandfather was one of a handful of petty kings...

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5.1

45 votes

5.1

45 votes

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Willis Goldbeck

Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Sara Haden · Bonita Granville

Synopsis Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in college, but has since served in the military...

5.0

32 votes

5.0

32 votes

Hills of Home

1948 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Donald Crisp · Tom Drake · Janet Leigh

Synopsis A Family Classic. William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that...

4.8

25 votes

4.8

25 votes

Boys' Ranch

1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

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Hit the Deck

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Jane Powell · Tony Martin · Debbie Reynolds · Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's...

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Love Finds Andy Hardy

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Fay Holden · Cecilia Parker

Synopsis Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. He agrees (for a fee) to pretend to be the boyfriend of his...

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Dean Martin · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Eva Bartok · Dewey Martin

Synopsis In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married...

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The Sun Comes Up

1949 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Lloyd Nolan · Claude Jarman Jr. · Lewis Stone

Synopsis Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.

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The Hardys Ride High

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Cecilia Parker · Ann Rutherford

Synopsis "The Hardys Ride High," is the sixth of the famous series dealing with the popular screen family. The new picture is different in every respect from the others, but the beloved Hardys remain the same. Now they inherit $2,000,000 and...

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