Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson

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


Vertigo

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Henry Jones · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old...

8.2

69K votes

8.2

69K votes

Key Largo

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in...

7.9

19K votes

7.9

19K votes

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Lew Ayres · Louis Wolheim · John Wray · Arnold Lucy

Plot A realistic anti-war epic based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Seven German youths enthusiastically join the German army after a professor preaches the glories of war. The...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

The Wrong Man

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Henry Fonda · Vera Miles · Anthony Quayle · Harold J. Stone

Plot Manny Ballestero (Henry Fonda) is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

So Red the Rose

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Walter Connolly · Randolph Scott · Janet Beecher

Plot SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn...

7.1

21 votes

7.1

21 votes

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969 · Movie · 145 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Richard Burton · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas · Michael Hordern

Plot Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day...

6.9

802 votes

6.9

802 votes

What Price Glory

1926 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · August Tollaire · Mathilde Comont · Sammy Cohn

Plot U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a...

6.9

58 votes

6.9

58 votes

Death Takes a Holiday

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander

Plot Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian...

6.7

513 votes

6.7

513 votes

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Crisp

Plot A romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (played by Bette Davis) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (played by Errol Flynn).

6.6

853 votes

6.6

853 votes

We Live Again

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Anna Sten · Fredric March · Jane Baxter · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for...

6.6

104 votes

6.6

104 votes

The Bad Seed

1956 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Nancy Kelly · Patty McCormack · Henry Jones · Eileen Heckart

Plot Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Rain

1932 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

6.5

458 votes

6.5

458 votes

Mary of Scotland

1936 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Fredric March · Florence Eldridge · Douglas Walton

Plot Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to rule as queen, to the chagrin of Elizabeth I of England who finds her a dangerous rival. There is much ado over whom Mary...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Joan of Arc

1948 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Ingrid Bergman · José Ferrer · Francis L. Sullivan · Ward Bond

Plot In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to...

6.1

734 votes

6.1

734 votes

What Price Glory

1952 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast James Cagney · Corinne Calvet · Dan Dailey · William Demarest

Plot James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being...

6.0

507 votes

6.0

507 votes

The Bad Seed (TV)

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Blair Brown · Lynn Redgrave · David Carradine · Carrie Wells

Plot Nine-year-old Rhoda is the only child of Kenneth and Christine Penmark. Kenneth Penmark goes away on business, leaving Christine and Rhoda at home. Christine begins to notice that Rhoda is...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

The Eve of St. Mark

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

5.4

51 votes

5.4

51 votes

Shower of Stars (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

Elizabeth the Queen (TV)

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Judith Anderson · Charlton Heston · Michael Allinson · Alan Caillou

Plot England is rocked by a power struggle between Queen Elizabeth and her lover, the Earl of Essex.

Not rated

Not rated