Screenplay: Richard H. Landau

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard H. Landau. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Roadblock

1951 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Harold Daniels

Cast Charles McGraw · Joan Dixon · Lowell Gilmore · Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her tastes are too expensive for him, so he sets about...

6.6

84 votes

6.6

84 votes

The Creeping Unknown

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Brian Donlevy · Jack Warner · Margia Dean · Richard Wordsworth

Synopsis Britain's first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Synopsis Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

The Crooked Way

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast John Payne · Sonny Tufts · Ellen Drew · Rhys Williams

Synopsis A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is released from a veteran's hospital, decides to return to Los Angeles to see if he can regain his identity. Trying to retrace his former steps he soon learns...

6.2

68 votes

6.2

68 votes

Stolen Face

1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Henreid · Lizabeth Scott · André Morell · Susan Stephen

Synopsis A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on a patient--a female criminal on the run--and changes her face...

5.9

99 votes

5.9

99 votes

Up Periscope

1959 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Garner · Edmond O'Brien · Andra Martin · Alan Hale Jr.

Synopsis Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled...

5.8

316 votes

5.8

316 votes

Hawaiian Eye (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dein · Alvin Ganzer · Paul Landres · André De Toth

Cast Connie Stevens · Robert Conrad · Poncie Ponce · Anthony Eisley

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963) 134 episodes. Set against the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series centered around the cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm - Thomas Jefferson Lopaka,...

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Back to Bataan

1945 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Wayne · Anthony Quinn · Beulah Bondi · Fely Franquelli

Synopsis The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack....

5.6

310 votes

5.6

310 votes

Spaceways

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

5.5

59 votes

5.5

59 votes

The Black Hole

1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Maximilian Schell · Anthony Perkins · Robert Forster · Joseph Bottoms

Synopsis The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ''lost'' ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship is manned by robots - it's only human inhabitant, one Dr. Hans...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

Direction Glen A. Larson · James Sheldon · Dick Harwood · Sidney Hayers

Cast Claude Akins · Brian Kerwin · Mills Watson · Leann Hunley

Synopsis Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of "El camionero y su mono" (1979), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt...

5.1

280 votes

5.1

280 votes

The Girl in Black Stockings

1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Lex Barker · Anne Bancroft · Mamie Van Doren · Ron Randell

Synopsis Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Sheriff Jess Holmes considers everyone at the motel a suspect, even owner Edmund Parry, a woman...

4.9

29 votes

4.9

29 votes

Frankenstein 1970

1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Boris Karloff · Tom Duggan · Jana Lund · Don 'Red' Barry

Synopsis Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times; he was tortured at the hands of the Nazis for not cooperating with them during World War II and he is now badly disfigured. As his family's wealth begins to run...

4.8

47 votes

4.8

47 votes

4.7

65 votes

Switch (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Bruce Kessler · Leo Penn

Cast Robert Wagner · Eddie Albert · Charlie Callas · Sharon Gless

Synopsis Ex-cop Frank McBride (Eddie Albert) and ex-con Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner) start their own detective agency.

Not rated

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Frankenstein (TV)

1973 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Robert Foxworth · Susan Strasberg · Bo Svenson · Heidi Vaughn

Synopsis A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation."

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Christmas Dove (TV)

1986 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast Loretta Young · Arthur Hill · Ron Leibman · Trevor Howard

Synopsis An elderly, wealthy woman who uses her wealth to help the less fortunate, decides not to give her son controlling interest in the business. That's when he decides to have declared incompetent. She also learns that she's dying. She then...

Not rated

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Hell Bound

1957 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William J. Hole Jr.

Cast John Russell · June Blair · Stuart Whitman · Margo Woode

Synopsis A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. The plan goes awry when the gang leader's girlfriend falls for an ambulance attendant who is an unsuspecting...

Not rated

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The Man Is Armed

1956 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Dane Clark · May Wynn · William Talman · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.

Not rated

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The American Girls (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Mike Lloyd Ross · Lane Slate · Lee Philips · Rod Holcomb

Cast Priscilla Barnes · Debra Clinger · David Spielberg · William Prince

Synopsis Rebecca Tomkins (Priscilla Barnes) and Amy Waddell (Debra Clinger) are a pair of sexy young television reporters working for a respected "60 Minutes", like newsmagazine. Receiving their story assignments from New York producer Francis X. Casey (David Spielberg), the girls...

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Not rated