Screenplay: Lou Rusoff

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lou Rusoff. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Girls in Prison

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Richard Denning · Joan Taylor · Adele Jergens · Helen Gilbert

Plot Anne Carson (Joan Taylor) is sent to a women's prison for allegedly participating in a bank robbery with two others, one, Paul Anderson (Lance Fuller) who is still at large....

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Suicide Battalion

1958 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Mike Connors · John Ashley · Jewell Lain · Russ Bender

Plot Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Beach Party

1963 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction William Asher

Cast Robert Cummings · Dorothy Malone · Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello

Plot The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led...

5.3

21 votes

5.3

21 votes

Submarine Seahawk

1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet

Cast John Bentley · Brett Halsey · Wayne Heffley · Steve Mitchell

Plot For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the...

5.3

66 votes

5.3

66 votes

Day the World Ended

1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Richard Denning · Lori Nelson · Adele Jergens · Mike Connors

Plot After a nuclear holocaust, survivors hole up in a mountain cabin. Exposure to the radiation outside slowly turns people into telepathic monsters roaming the countryside.

4.8

264 votes

4.8

264 votes

It Conquered the World

1956 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Peter Graves · Beverly Garland · Lee Van Cleef · Sally Fraser

Plot One of several remaining members of its race, an alien from Venus is guided to Earth by disgruntled scientist Tom Anderson, who tells it which humans it should attach mind...

4.7

154 votes

4.7

154 votes

The She-Creature

1956 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Chester Morris · Frieda Inescort · Ron Randell · Marla English

Plot A mysterious hypnotist (Chester Morris) reverts his beautiful assistant (Marla English) back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

4.5

66 votes

4.5

66 votes

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

1955 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Dan Milner

Cast Kent Taylor · Michael Whalen · Helene Stanton · Cathy Downs

Plot An unusual radioactive rock on the sea bottom mutates the ocean life into a horrible monster. When charred, radioactive bodies begin to drift ashore a scientist and government agent investigate...

4.2

37 votes

4.2

37 votes

Motorcycle Gang

1957 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Steven Terrell · Anne Neyland · John Ashley · Raymond Hatton

Plot A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup,...

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Flesh and the Spur

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast John Agar · Marla English · Mike Connors · Raymond Hatton

Plot A young cowboy searches for the killer of his twin brother.

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Shake, Rattle & Rock!

1956 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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The Oklahoma Woman

1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Peggie Castle · Richard Denning · Cathy Downs · Tudor Owen

Plot After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner...

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In the Year 2889 (TV)

1967 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Larry Buchanan

Cast Paul Petersen · Quinn O'Hara · Charla Doherty · Neil Fletcher

Plot A group of post A-war survivors, gathered together in a valley, are menaced by cannibalistic human mutants with telepathic powers.

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Apache Woman

1955 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Joan Taylor · Lloyd Bridges · Lance Fuller · Morgan Jones

Plot A government agent is sent to a western town to investigate attacks that the townspeople say are being commited by rampaging Apaches. The agent, however, suspects that different forces may...

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Back to the Beach

1987 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Lyndall Hobbs

Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Lori Loughlin · Tommy Hinkley

Plot Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.

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Runaway Daughters (TV)

1994 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Joe Dante

Cast Julie Bowen · Holly Fields · Jenny Lewis · Paul Rudd

Plot The title characters are Angie Gordon (Julie Bowen), Mary Nicholson (Holly Fields) and Laura Cahn (Jenny Lewis). Their picaresque adventure begins when Mary has a pregnancy scare after letting Bob...

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Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

1959 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William J. Hole Jr.

Cast Jody Fair · Russ Bender · Henry McCann · Martin Braddock

Plot A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked...

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Runaway Daughters

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Marla English · Gloria Castillo · Mary Ellen Kay · Lance Fuller

Plot Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and...

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The Star and the Story (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Roy Kellino · Robert Stevenson · Peter Godfrey · Lewis R. Foster

Cast Hugh Sanders · Frank Lovejoy · Hillary Brooke · Robin Hughes

Plot Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors and actresses that went...

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Hot Rod Gang

1958 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast John Ashley · Jody Fair · Steve Drexel · Scott Peters

Plot A young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will only bequeath him their fortune if he behaves like a proper gentleman....

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