Screenplay: Arthur Hailey

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


Zero Hour!

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Hall Bartlett

Cast Dana Andrews · Linda Darnell · Sterling Hayden · Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Plot This suspenseful air-borne adventure can rightfully lay claim to being the Mother of All subsequent in-flight disaster films of the '70s. The trouble begins when the pilot and crew of...

5.9

52 votes

5.9

52 votes

Airport

1970 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dean Martin · Jean Seberg · Jacqueline Bisset

Plot Arthur Haley's bestselling novel brought to the screen. A midwestern U.S. hub airport struggles to remain open despite the worst snowstorm in 25 years, angry homeowners from a nearby housing...

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

Hotel

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Rod Taylor · Catherine Spaak · Karl Malden · Melvyn Douglas

Plot Based on the best-selling novel by Arthur Hailey ("Airport"), the story of the clock-like movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager (Rod Taylor),...

5.8

165 votes

5.8

165 votes

Hotel (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Aaron Spelling · Bruce Bilson · Jerome Courtland · Nancy Malone

Cast James Brolin · Connie Sellecca · Anne Baxter · Shea Farrel

Plot Based on the bestselling novel by Arthur Hailey, this successful drama was set in the posh St. Gregory Hotel, run by manager Peter McDermott (James Brolin) with the help of...

4.7

2K votes

4.7

2K votes

The Concorde: Airport '79

1979 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich

Cast Alain Delon · Susan Blakely · Robert Wagner · Sylvia Kristel

Plot In this installment in the AIRPORT disaster-film franchise, a passenger jet becomes a target for terror when one passenger carrying secret documents is the subject of a murder plot. As...

4.4

964 votes

4.4

964 votes

Detective (TV)

2005 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction David S. Cass Sr.

Cast Tom Berenger · Cybill Shepherd · Annabeth Gish · Rick Gomez

Plot Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, this absorbing drama examines the relationship between a priest-turned-cop and a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on death row. As the detective hears...

4.0

43 votes

4.0

43 votes

Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1976 · Series · 390 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Kirk Douglas · Christopher Plummer · Anne Baxter · Ralph Bellamy

Plot This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir...

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Strong Medicine (TV)

1987 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Guy Green

Cast Pamela Sue Martin · Patrick Duffy · Dick Van Dyke · Ben Cross

Plot A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.

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Wheels (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1978 · Series · 600 min. · United States

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Time Lock

1957 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Robert Beatty · Lee Patterson · Betty McDowall · Vincent Winter

Plot A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.

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The Young Doctors

1961 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Fredric March · Ben Gazzara · Dick Clark · Ina Balin

Plot When young Dr. David Coleman (Ben Gazzara) arrives at a large New York hospital to join the pathology staff, he is greeted with hostility by aging chief pathologist Dr. Joseph...

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Not rated