Screenplay: Niven Busch

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


The Postman Always Rings Twice

1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Lana Turner · John Garfield · Cecil Kellaway · Hume Cronyn

Plot Set during the Depression, this story concerns an older man and his attractive young wife, who take on drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) as an employee at their roadside cafe....

7.6

17K votes

7.6

17K votes

Duel in the Sun

1946 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

The Westerner

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone

Plot "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Pursued

1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Teresa Wright · Robert Mitchum · Judith Anderson · Lane Chandler

Plot Set in New Mexico around the turn of the century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb (Mitchum) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Furies

1950 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Walter Huston · Judith Anderson

Plot The 1870s, New Mexico territory: T.C. Jeffords is a cattle baron who built his ranch, the Furies, from scratch. He borrows from banks, pays hired hands with his own script...

7.0

550 votes

7.0

550 votes

Distant Drums

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gary Cooper · Mari Aldon · Richard Webb · Arthur Hunnicutt

Plot After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

In Old Chicago

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady

Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...

6.6

340 votes

6.6

340 votes

The Man From the Alamo

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.2

824 votes

6.2

824 votes

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Ricardo Cortez · Mae Clarke

Plot A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Crowd Roars

1932 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ann Dvorak · Eric Linden

Plot Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer (James Cagney) returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion and...

6.1

205 votes

6.1

205 votes

Till the End of Time

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Guy Madison · Robert Mitchum · Bill Williams

Plot Three former GIs have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts....

6.1

176 votes

6.1

176 votes

Moss Rose

1947 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Peggy Cummins · Victor Mature · Ethel Barrymore · Vincent Price

Plot It's that smudge of fog called London under the reign of Victoria. When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her...

6.1

28 votes

6.1

28 votes

The Capture

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Lew Ayres · Teresa Wright · Victor Jory · Jacqueline White

Plot Badly injured and hunted by the police, Lin Vanner takes refuge in a priest's home, and tells him what has happened. When Vanner was working in a Mexican oil field,...

6.0

25 votes

6.0

25 votes

Belle Starr

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Randolph Scott · Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Shepperd Strudwick

Plot Biography from outlaw Belle Starr (Gene Tierney). The setting is the Civil War and its aftermath. Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees. She marries Confederate guerilla leader Sam...

5.6

129 votes

5.6

129 votes

The treasure of Pancho Villa

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Rory Calhoun · Shelley Winters · Gilbert Roland · Joseph Calleia

Plot An American adventurer competes with the famed Mexican bandit to recover a lost gold shipment.

5.2

79 votes

5.2

79 votes

The Big Shakedown

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Charles Farrell · Bette Davis · Ricardo Cortez · Glenda Farrell

Plot Former bootlegger Nick Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate drugs. The money makes it possible for Jimmy to marry Norma Frank, a pharmacy clerk. Expecting a baby,...

Not rated

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He Was Her Man

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Victor Jory · Frank Craven

Plot Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.

Not rated

Not rated

Scarlet Dawn

1932 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Nancy Carroll · Lilyan Tashman · Guy Kibbee

Plot February, 1917. Returning to the German front after a sybaritic leave in Moscow, Russian officer Nikita Krasnoff and his brigade are met by the first troop revolts. In the growing...

Not rated

Not rated

The Angels Wash Their Faces

1939 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Ann Sheridan · Billy Halop · Bernard Punsly · Leo Gorcey

Plot A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local...

Not rated

Not rated

The Moonlighter

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Not rated