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

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

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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

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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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