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
Direction Henry King
Cast Susan Hayward · William Lundigan · Rory Calhoun · Barbara Bates
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
Direction Henry King
Cast Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Kent Taylor · Pauline Frederick
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
Direction John Ford
Cast Will Rogers · Anne Shirley · Irvin S. Cobb · Eugene Pallette
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
Direction Walter Lang
Cast William Powell · Annabella · Helen Westley · Henry Stephenson
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