Screenplay: László Vadnay

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


Uncertain Glory

1944 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Paul Lukas · Lucile Watson · Faye Emerson

Plot During WWII, in France, Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed via the guillotine, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape. Inspector...

6.7

190 votes

6.7

190 votes

I Love Melvin

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Una Merkel · Richard Anderson

Plot Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do...

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

Flesh and Fantasy

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Charles Boyer · Barbara Stanwyck · Betty Field

Plot Three speculative stories dealing with the supernatural. In the first, an ugly woman wears a beautiful mask for a night to win a man who never noticed her before. In...

6.4

274 votes

6.4

274 votes

Seven Sinners

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Albert Dekker · Broderick Crawford

Plot Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes...

6.2

120 votes

6.2

120 votes

Copacabana

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Groucho Marx · Carmen Miranda · Steve Cochran · Andy Russell

Plot Singing, dancing and showgirls galore enliven this musical comedy set in the famed New York nightclub "The Copacabana." Groucho Marx, sans brothers, appears as sleazy theatrical agent Lionel Devereaux; his...

5.5

583 votes

5.5

583 votes

Easy to Love

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Esther Williams · Tony Martin · Van Johnson · Carroll Baker

Plot Set against the background of Florida's Cypress Gardens, and featuring many stretches of water carnival-ballet numbers, the slight story line finds swimming star Julie Hallerton (Esther Williams) in love with...

5.3

71 votes

5.3

71 votes

Way... Way Out

1966 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Jerry Lewis · Connie Stevens · Robert Morley · Dennis Weaver

Plot The Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have...

4.7

95 votes

4.7

95 votes

The Homely Girl

1935 · Movie · 84 min. · Hungary

Direction Béla Gaál · Henry Koster

Cast Pál Jávor · Ella Gombaszögi · Gyula Kabos · Márton Rátkai

Plot Wrongly accused by lawyer Halmi (Pál Jávor ) of breaking up a marriage, pretty heroine Éva (Lili Muráti) gets even by disguising herself as a drab drudge and landing a...

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Man Sometime Errs

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · Hungary

Direction Béla Gaál

Cast Gyula Gózon · Anna Tõkés · Zoltán Makláry · Eta Hajdú

Plot Anna Tokes finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage to Gyula Csortos to save her father (Gyula Gozon) from being jailed by his creditors. Her engagement broach is stolen, and...

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The Great Rupert

1950 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Jimmy Durante · Terry Moore · Tom Drake · Frank Orth

Plot A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.

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Fräulein Lilli

1936 · Movie · 86 min. · Austria

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South Sea Sinner

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Macdonald Carey · Shelley Winters · Luther Adler · Frank Lovejoy

Plot A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much."...

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Dean Martin · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Eva Bartok · Dewey Martin

Plot In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this...

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Meseautó

1934 · Movie · 99 min. · Hungary

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Szenzáció

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · Hungary

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Josette

1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Don Ameche · Simone Simon · Robert Young · Joan Davis

Plot Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both...

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It Happened in Athens

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Jayne Mansfield · Trax Colton · Nico Minardos · Bob Mathias

Plot In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets...

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Lovagias ügy

1937 · Movie · 78 min. · Hungary

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast Zita Perczel · Imre Ráday · Gyula Kabos · Ella Gombaszögi

Plot Gyula Kabes and Imre Raday are working at the same factory when Kabes' resignation is allegedly brought about by Raday. The latter goes to the Kabes' home to offer apologies...

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The Great Diamond Robbery

1954 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Red Skelton · Cara Williams · James Whitmore · Kurt Kasznar

Plot Ambrose C. Park (Red Skelton), left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer...

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Girl Rush

1944 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Wally Brown · Alan Carney · Frances Langford · Barbara Jo Allen

Plot Two unsuccesful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the Californian goldrush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dewellers of this town promise...

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