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
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Joan Crawford · Walter Huston · Fred Howard · Ben Hendricks Jr.
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
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Anne Baxter · William Eythe · Michael O'Shea · Vincent Price
5.4
51 votes
5.4
51 votes
Shower of Stars (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Levy · Seymour Berns · Ralph Nelson
Cast William Lundigan · Art Gilmore · Jack Benny · Mary Costa
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In the Shadow of the Bridge
1946 · Movie · min. · Mexico
Direction Roberto Gavaldón
Cast Guillermo Calles · Esther Fernández · Gilberto González · Rafael Icardo
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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.
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