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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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.
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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,...
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
Plot 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...
5.6
310 votes
5.6
310 votes
Spaceways
1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Howard Duff · Eva Bartok · Alan Wheatley · Philip Leaver
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
Plot 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...
5.4
1K votes
5.4
1K votes
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Glen A. Larson · James Sheldon · Dick Harwood · Sidney Hayers
Cast Claude Akins · Brian Kerwin · Mills Watson · Leann Hunley
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
4.8
47 votes
4.8
47 votes
Lost Continent
1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Sam Newfield
Cast Cesar Romero · Hillary Brooke · Chick Chandler · John Hoyt
4.7
65 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
Plot Ex-cop Frank McBride (Eddie Albert) and ex-con Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner) start their own detective agency.
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Frankenstein (TV)
1973 · Movie · 180 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Robert Foxworth · Susan Strasberg · Bo Svenson · Heidi Vaughn
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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