Screenplay: William W. Norton

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William W. Norton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Mckenzie Break

1970 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Brian Keith · Helmut Griem · Ian Hendry · Jack Watson

Plot A British intelligence agent investigates an impending escape by a group of unruly German prisoners of war.

6.2

330 votes

6.2

330 votes

The Scalphunters

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

6.1

775 votes

6.1

775 votes

The Hunting Party

1971 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Medford

Cast Oliver Reed · Gene Hackman · Candice Bergen · Simon Oakland

Plot The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the...

6.1

300 votes

6.1

300 votes

Brannigan

1975 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Hickox

Cast John Wayne · Richard Attenborough · Judy Geeson · Mel Ferrer

Plot Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up...

5.4

600 votes

5.4

600 votes

White Lightning

1973 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Burt Reynolds · Jennifer Billingsley · Bo Hopkins · Ned Beatty

Plot An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

5.2

146 votes

5.2

146 votes

Big Bad Mama

1974 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Steve Carver

Cast Angie Dickinson · William Shatner · Tom Skerritt · Susan Sennett

Plot After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters...

5.0

46 votes

5.0

46 votes

Gator

1976 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Burt Reynolds

Cast Burt Reynolds · Jack Weston · Lauren Hutton · Jerry Reed

Plot Agents force an ex con to help them nab a corrupt politician.

4.7

84 votes

4.7

84 votes

Day Of The Animals

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

4.7

100 votes

4.7

100 votes

Sam Whiskey

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Burt Reynolds · Angie Dickinson · Clint Walker · Ossie Davis

Plot Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds) is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura (Angie Dickinson) offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead...

4.6

112 votes

4.6

112 votes

Moving Violation

1976 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Charles S. Dubin

Cast Steven McChattie · Kay Lenz · Eddie Albert · Lonny Chapman

Plot A young drifter (Stephen McHattie) and his newly acquired girlfriend (Kay Lenz) witness a corrupt local Sheriff kill his deputy, soon becoming the prime suspects they set off across country...

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Night of the Juggler

1980 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler · Sidney J. Furie

Cast James Brolin · Cliff Gorman · Richard S. Castellano · Linda Miller

Plot A tough cop goes on a citywide rampage when his daughter is mistakenly kidnapped by a psycho. The psycho had originally targeted someone else's daughter, but is just as prepared...

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Dirty Tricks

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Elliott Gould · Kate Jackson · Rich Little · Arthur Hill

Plot A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered...

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A Small Town in Texas

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

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Exiled in America

1992 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Paul Leder

Cast Maxwell Caulfield · Edward Albert · Viveca Lindfors · Kamala Dawson

Plot A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a...

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The Eleventh Commandment

1986 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

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Poor Albert and Little Annie

1972 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Paul Leder

Cast David Hall · Geri Reischl · Joanne Moore Jordan · Greg Mullavy

Plot Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that...

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Not rated

Trader Horn

1973 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

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The Farmer's Other Daughter

1965 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Hayes

Cast Judy Pennebaker · William Michael · William Guhl · Harry Lovejoy

Plot Farmer Brown wants to sell his daughter, June, to the dastardly Cyrus P. Barksnapper in order to save his farm. But, Jim Huckleberry would like to to do some plowing...

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Big Bad Mama II

1987 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jim Wynorski

Cast Angie Dickinson · Robert Culp · Danielle Brisebois · Julie McCullough

Plot It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their...

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Not rated