Screenplay: James Edward Grant
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Edward Grant. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 49
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
The Lady is Willing
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Fred MacMurray · Aline MacMahon · Stanley Ridges
6.1
386 votes
6.1
386 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