Screenplay: Niven Busch
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Niven Busch. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 25
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
Direction Budd Boetticher
Cast Glenn Ford · Julie Adams · Hugh O´Brian · Chill Wills
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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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The Moonlighter
1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Ward Bond · William Ching
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