Screenplay: James Edward Grant

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Edward Grant. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Last Wagon

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Richard Widmark · Felicia Farr · Susan Kohner · Tommy Rettig

Synopsis When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Tod, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Johnny Eager

1941 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Lana Turner · Edward Arnold · Van Heflin

Synopsis Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. In fact he's as deep in as he ever was, and desperately needs official permission to open...

7.0

554 votes

7.0

554 votes

Donovan's Reef

1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Lee Marvin · Elizabeth Allen · Jack Warden

Synopsis A war veteran in the South Seas tries to salvage a buddy''s reputation when the man''s daughter comes calling.

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

The Comancheros

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Wayne · Stuart Whitman · Ina Balin · Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Alamo

1960 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction John Wayne

Cast John Wayne · Richard Widmark · Laurence Harvey · Ken Curtis

Synopsis THE ALAMO is John's Wayne's patriotic, pro-American recounting of the famous siege at a Texas fort. For 13 days in 1836, a group of Americans, led by Sam Houston, fought 7,000 Mexican soldiers to retain control of the Alamo and...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

Hondo

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Geraldine Page · Ward Bond · Michael Pate

Synopsis Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Proud Rebel

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Alan Ladd · Olivia de Havilland · Dean Jagger · David Ladd

Synopsis Just after the Civil War, proud rebel Alan Ladd doggedly wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. The warmth of a father's love and faith, the devotion of a boy for a dog, and...

6.3

610 votes

6.3

610 votes

Whipsaw

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Harvey Stephens · William Harrigan

Synopsis Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her....

6.3

35 votes

6.3

35 votes

The Sheepman

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Glenn Ford · Shirley MacLaine · Leslie Nielsen · Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants...

6.2

660 votes

6.2

660 votes

Two of a Kind

1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Lizabeth Scott · Terry Moore · Alexander Knox

Synopsis Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son. Kathy, the McIntyre's niece, who likes Lefty,...

6.2

42 votes

6.2

42 votes

Three Violent People

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Charlton Heston · Anne Baxter · Gilbert Roland · Tom Tryon

Synopsis Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Everyone there is enchanted with Lorna. But the carpetbag government is set to grab all the big ranches,...

6.2

658 votes

6.2

658 votes

Johnny Allegro

1949 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast George Raft · Nina Foch · George Macready · Will Geer

Synopsis A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.

6.1

53 votes

6.1

53 votes

Great Guy

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · James Burke · Edward Brophy

Synopsis It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in...

6.1

462 votes

6.1

462 votes

Danger-Love at Work

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Ann Sothern · Jack Haley · Mary Boland · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.

6.1

174 votes

6.1

174 votes

Sands of Iwo Jima

1949 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Wayne · John Agar · Adele Mara · Forrest Tucker

Synopsis John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One...

6.0

745 votes

6.0

745 votes

Big Brown Eyes

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Cary Grant · Joan Bennett · Walter Pidgeon · Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis Dan Barr is a flatfoot on the trail of jewel robbers. Eve Fallon is his girl of 5 years. We meet them spitting and sparring, but never doubting they're in love. Eve is a manicurist, with an eye for news....

6.0

100 votes

6.0

100 votes

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · James Gleason · Eric Blore

Synopsis Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

Circus World

1964 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Rita Hayworth · Claudia Cardinale · John Smith

Synopsis In the early years of the 20th century, Matt Masters takes his rambling Wild West Show to Europe. His decision is prompted by his desire to find Lili Alfredo, who disappeared fourteen years earlier following the death of her husband,...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Miracles for Sale

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Robert Young · Florence Rice · Frank Craven · Henry Hull

Synopsis Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows. While his business is Miracles for Sale, his hobby is exposing fake spiritualists. At the club, he is invited to attend the calling from the other world by Sabbatt,...

5.9

101 votes

5.9

101 votes