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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