Screenplay: Lamar Trotti

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


The Ox-Bow Incident

1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Henry Fonda · Dana Andrews · Mary Beth Hughes · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Nevada in 1885, two worn out cowboys, Gil (Henry Fonda) and Art (Harry Morgan), ride into Darby’s Saloon and Hotel looking for a drink. Shortly after their arrival, they...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Yellow Sky

1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gregory Peck · Anne Baxter · Richard Widmark · Robert Arthur

Plot In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Razor's Edge

1946 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · John Payne · Anne Baxter

Plot Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929,...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Alice Brady · Marjorie Weaver · Arleen Whelan

Plot John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. This biography provides a glimpse into the...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

7.0

107 votes

7.0

107 votes

Tales of Manhattan

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Plot A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

7.0

536 votes

7.0

536 votes

Man Hunt

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Plot British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Ramona

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

6.9

53 votes

6.9

53 votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Judge Priest

1934 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Will Rogers · Tom Brown · Anita Louise · Henry B. Walthall

Plot A judge sees fair play when tackling prejudices and injustices in a small American town.

6.7

859 votes

6.7

859 votes

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

6.7

395 votes

6.7

395 votes

In Old Chicago

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady

Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...

6.6

340 votes

6.6

340 votes

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Ethel Merman

Plot This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

6.5

106 votes

6.5

106 votes

Thunder Birds

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gene Tierney · Preston Foster · John Sutton · Jack Holt

Plot Prestiged pilot takes young amateur under his wing, soon discovering he's falling head over heels for the woman he loves.

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

The Walls of Jericho

1948 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · Anne Baxter · Kirk Douglas

Plot After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria...

6.4

124 votes

6.4

124 votes

Captain from Castile

1947 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Tyrone Power plays Pedro De Vargas, a sixteenth century Spanish nobleman forced to flee Spain after he kills the man who murdered his sister. He goes to the New World,...

6.4

432 votes

6.4

432 votes

The Baroness and the Butler

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

Wilson

1944 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Alexander Knox · Ruth Nelson · Charles Coburn · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot The political career of Woodrow Wilson chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the...

6.2

134 votes

6.2

134 votes

Immortal Sergeant

1943 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Henry Fonda · Maureen O'Hara · Thomas Mitchell · Allyn Joslyn

Plot Out on patrol in the war-time desert a Canadian corporal reminisces about the woman he has left behind in London and ponders whether she will fall for the charms of...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes