Screenplay: Jack Sher

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


Paris Blues

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Plot Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there...

6.6

861 votes

6.6

861 votes

The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast Kerwin Mathews · Jo Morrow · June Thorburn · Lee Patterson

Plot Based on the famous fantasy novel "Gulliver's Travels", by Jonathan Swift. Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town...

5.9

616 votes

5.9

616 votes

Move Over, Darling

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter

Plot Remake of My Favorite Wife, 1940, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

5.9

405 votes

5.9

405 votes

Walk the Proud Land

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jesse Hibbs

Cast Audie Murphy · Anne Bancroft · Pat Crowley · Charles Drake

Plot Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft)...

5.4

101 votes

5.4

101 votes

The Wild and the Innocent

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast Audie Murphy · Joanne Dru · Gilbert Roland · Jim Backus

Plot In this comical western, a curmudgeonly fur-trapper is hurt by an enraged bear and must send his nephew to town with his pelts so he can get much-needed supplies. En...

5.0

103 votes

5.0

103 votes

My Favorite Spy

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss

Plot Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic...

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

Critic's Choice

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Rip Torn · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good....

4.7

38 votes

4.7

38 votes

World in My Corner

1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Jesse Hibbs

Cast Audie Murphy · Barbara Rush · Jeff Morrow · John McIntire

Plot A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him...

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Love in a Goldfish Bowl

1961 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast Tommy Sands · Fabian · Toby Michaels · Edward Andrews

Plot Gordon Slide and Blythe Holloway are platonic BFFs and fellow students at small San Paleo College. Gordon is bright - perhaps too smart for his own good as his smart-alecky...

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Banyon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ed Adamson · Ralph Senensky · Daniel Petrie · Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Robert Forster · Joan Blondell · Richard Jaeckel · Julie Gregg

Plot TV Series (1971-1973) 15 Episodes. The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.

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Kathy O'

1958 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast Dan Duryea · Jan Sterling · Patty McCormack · Mary Fickett

Plot In person, child film star Kathy O'Rourke belies her sweet image. Studio publicity man Harry Johnson must keep Celeste, a national magazine writer, from discovering this when writing a piece...

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The Kid from Left Field

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Four Girls in Town

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sher

Cast George Nader · Julie Adams · Sydney Chaplin · Marianne Koch

Plot Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer,...

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Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (TV)

1971 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Mia Farrow · Hal Holbrook · John Colicos · Marlene Warfield

Plot Hollywood writer tries to talk a dejected actress out of suicide.

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Off Limits

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bob Hope · Mickey Rooney · Marilyn Maxwell · Eddie Mayehoff

Plot Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. Life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn, however,...

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Joe Butterfly

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jesse Hibbs

Cast Audie Murphy · George Nader · Keenan Wynn · Kieko Shima

Plot The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the...

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Hello Mother, Goodbye! (TV)

1974 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Peter H. Hunt

Cast Bette Davis · Kenneth Mars

Plot A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.

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Holmes and Yo-Yo (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Lee Hewitt · Jack Sher · John Astin · Reza Badiyi

Cast John Schuck · Richard B. Shull · Bruce Kirby · Andrea Howard

Plot The cases of a hard luck police detective and his android partner.

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