Screenplay: Howard Rodman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Howard Rodman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Charley Varrick
1973 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Walter Matthau · Joe Don Baker · Felicia Farr · Andrew Robinson
Plot In this compact, fast-paced action thriller, a bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled New Mexico bank. As a result, they must...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Madigan
1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino
Plot Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Route 66 (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman
Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae
Plot Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964....
6.3
25 votes
6.3
25 votes
Coogan's Bluff
1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee J. Cobb · Susan Clark · Tisha Sterling
Plot The film opens with Arizona deputy Walt Coogan (Eastwood) on the trail of an Indian fugitive; on catching him, he handcuffs him outside the house of a married woman with...
5.9
3K votes
5.9
3K votes
Winning
1969 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction James Goldstone
Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Robert Wagner · Richard Thomas
5.3
713 votes
5.3
713 votes
An American Dream
1966 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Robert Gist
Cast Stuart Whitman · Janet Leigh · Eleanor Parker · Barry Sullivan
Plot A TV talk-show host who may have killed his wife finds himself being pursued by both the police and a gang of hoods.
5.1
46 votes
5.1
46 votes
The Moon and the Desert (TV)
1973 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Irving
Cast Lee Majors · Barbara Anderson · Martin Balsam · Darren McGavin
Plot When astronaut Steve Austin tests a new government plane, he is nearly killed after it malfunctions and crashes. To save him he is rebuilt using bionic parts. Having a hard...
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Studio One (TV Series)
1948 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Paul Nickell · Franklin J. Schaffner · Allen Reisner · Robert Mulligan
Cast Al Markim · Alexander Scourby · Arthur Storch · Casey Allen
Plot Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. A total of 466 episodes aired on CBS between 1948 and 1958. The program appeared...
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Naked City (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Rosenberg · John Brahm · William A. Graham · David Lowell Rich
Cast Paul Burke · Horace McMahon · Harry Bellaver · James Franciscus
Plot TV Series (1958-1963). 4 seasons. 138 episodes. A crime drama that focused on the lives of the detectives of New York's 65th Precinct. The emphasis in the stories was mostly...
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The Man and the City (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Howard Rodman · Paul Henreid
Cast Mike Farrell · Anthony Quinn · William Schallert · Henry Jones
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Conspiracy of Terror (TV)
1975 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast Michael Constantine · Barbara Rhoades · David Opatoshu · Roger Perry
Plot A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
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On Camera (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 30 min. · Canada
Direction Paul Almond · Ted Kotcheff · Michael Sheldon · Robert Christie
Cast Patrick MacNee · Janet Reid · Austin Willis · Charles Jarrott
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One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Cast Robert Vaughn · David McCallum · Leo G. Carroll · Maurice Evans
Plot U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to Europe where a scientist's age-reversing machine is in danger of being seized by T.H.R.U.S.H. spies.
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Actor's Studio (TV Series)
1948 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction David Pressman · Alex Segal · Ralph Warren · Yul Brynner
Cast Marc Connelly · George Keane · Don Hanmer · Nancy Franklin
Plot TV Series (1948-1950). 2 seasons. 65 episodes. Produced by the ABC as its television network was just getting off the ground, this program was one of the first dramatic series...
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The Devlin Connection (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Christian I. Nyby II · Barry Crane · James Frawley · Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast Rock Hudson · Jack Scalia · Leigh Taylor-Young · Louis Giambalvo
Plot Brian Devlin was a military intelligence agent. Years ago he had an affair with a woman named Nicole Corsello. He was unaware that she was pregnant with his child. 28...
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Scandal Sheet (TV)
1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Burt Lancaster · Lauren Hutton · Pamela Reed · Robert Urich
Plot The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
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Harry O (TV Series)
1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Howard Rodman · Richard Lang · Jerry Thorpe · Richard Benedict
Cast David Janssen · Henry Darrow · Anthony Zerbe · Paul Tulley
Plot Harry Orwell is a world-weary private investigator who was forced to leave the Los Angeles Police Department after a bullet became lodged near his spine. Moving to San Diego, he...
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The Neon Ceiling (TV)
1971 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Gig Young · Lee Grant · Denise Nickerson · Herb Edelman
Plot A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose...
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You Are There (TV Series)
1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Bernard Girard · William D. Russell · Sidney Lumet · Jack Gage
Cast Walter Cronkite · Paul Birch · Roy Engel · E.G. Marshall
Plot 160 Episodes (1953-1972). Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and...
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Two for the Money (TV)
1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast Robert Hooks · Stephen Brooks · Walter Brennan · Catherine Burns
Plot Two cops quit the police department to become private detectives, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
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