Screenplay: Walter Doniger
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Walter Doniger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Along the Great Divide
1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Kirk Douglas · Virginia Mayo · John Agar · Walter Brennan
Plot Kirk Douglas stars as a taciturn marshall who must bring a highly lynchable cattle rustler (and accused murderer) to trial, fending off the mob that dogs their trail through the...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Rope of Sand
1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Peter Lorre
Plot Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat...
6.7
146 votes
6.7
146 votes
Tokyo Joe
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa
Plot An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
5.7
116 votes
5.7
116 votes
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Audie Murphy · Kathryn Grant · Hope Emerson · Jeff Donnell
Plot Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. He overcomes initial distrust and convinces the homesteaders (all women whose men...
5.1
136 votes
5.1
136 votes
Stone Cold
1991 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Craig R. Baxley
Cast Brian Bosworth · Lance Henriksen · Illana Diamant · William Forsythe
Plot Joe Huff is a tough, go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation to convict some extremely violent bikers, who...
4.7
685 votes
4.7
685 votes
Duffy of San Quentin
1954 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger
Cast Louis Hayward · Joanne Dru · Paul Kelly · Maureen O'Sullivan
Plot Based on the book and the reflections of San Quentin Prison Warden Clinton T. Duffy, the film is episodic and rambling in nature but, unlike most prison dramas, there are...
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Tombstone Territory (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist · Eddie Davis · Walter Doniger · Richard L. Bare
Cast Pat Conway · Richard Eastham · Quintin Sondergaard · Gilman Rankin
Plot Tough sheriff Clay Hollister keeps the law in Tombstone, Arizona, "The Town Too Tough to Die", with the support of his faithful deputies and the editor of the local newspaper.
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The Steel Jungle
1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger
Cast Perry Lopez · Beverly Garland · Walter Abel · Ted de Corsia
Plot The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal...
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Jive Junction
1943 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Dickie Moore · Tina Thayer · Gerra Young · John Michaels
Plot A young, classical-trained musician, Peter Crane, transfers from the Conservatory to Clinton High School, where he finds his music in conflict to that of the high school's world of jive...
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Rebound (TV Series)
1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Bernard Girard · Harve Foster
Cast John Doucette · Ned Glass · Elisabeth Fraser · Russ Conway
Plot A dramatic anthology series, one of many on television at the time. Lee Marvin made his television debut on this program.
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Desperate Search
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Howard Keel · Jane Greer · Patricia Medina · Keenan Wynn
Plot The family and friends of two children lost in the wilderness mount a desperate search to find them.
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The Rough Riders (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Eddie Davis · Franklin Adreon · Walter Doniger · Otto Lang
Cast Kent Taylor · Jan Merlin · Peter Whitney · Bill Catching
Plot After the Civil War, two former Union soldiers and an ex-Confederate team up to travel the West.
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Outlaws (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger · Jesse Hibbs · Sobey Martin · Paul Stanley
Cast Barton MacLane · Don Collier · Bruce Yarnell · Slim Pickens
Plot The adventures of a marshal and his young deputies in a section of Oklahoma infested with bandit gangs, gunmen and robbers.
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The Steel Cage
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger
Cast Paul Kelly · Maureen O'Sullivan · Walter Slezak · John Ireland
Plot Louis, a prison cook, is about to be paroled, upsetting fellow inmate Brenner, who loves Louis's food so much that he tries to bribe him to stay behind bars. After...
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Kentucky Woman (TV)
1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger
Cast Cheryl Ladd · Ned Beatty · Philip Levien · Sandy McPeak
Plot A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
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Hold Back the Night
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Payne · Chuck Connors · Peter Graves · Mona Freeman
Plot A Marine officer tells his squad the story behind a bottle of liquor that he always keeps with him but never drinks from.
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Danger in the Pacific
1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Lewis D. Collins
Cast Leo Carrillo · Andy Devine · Don Terry · Louise Allbritton
Plot British Intelligence agent Leo Marzell (Leo Carrillo) persuades scientist-explorer David Lynd (Don Terry) to postpone his wedding to wealthy sportswoman Jane Claymore (Louise Allbritton) to undertake an expedition to a...
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Alaska Seas
1954 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Robert Ryan · Jan Sterling · Brian Keith · Gene Barry
Plot Robert Ryan and Brian Keith, vastly under-rated actors, take a B-potboiler and make it appear to actually be something more. Matt Baker, a ne'er-do-well adventurer, gets out of jail and...
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Cease Fire!
1953 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States
Direction Owen Crump
Plot A real military action during the last year of the Korean War is re-enacted on the spot with real soldiers.
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