Screenplay: John Gay

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


Separate Tables

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast David Niven · Burt Lancaster · Rita Hayworth · Deborah Kerr

Plot "Separate Tables" touchingly and humorously examines the lives of the lonely-hearted guests at a hotel on England's south coast. Sibyl, a demure spinster on holiday with her mother, is attracted...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Ingrid Thulin · Charles Boyer · Paul Lukas

Plot Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear that he has given up...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Les Miserables (TV)

1978 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin

Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

6.7

73 votes

6.7

73 votes

Run Silent, Run Deep

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Clark Gable · Burt Lancaster · Jack Warden · Brad Dexter

Plot A movie's lasting value can often be measured by its influence in the years and decades following its original release, and on that basis Run Silent, Run Deep is certainly...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Bunker (TV)

1981 · Movie · 148 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Richard Jordan · Cliff Gorman · James Naughton

Plot Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

6.5

304 votes

6.5

304 votes

The Hallelujah Trail

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Burt Lancaster · Lee Remick · Jim Hutton · Pamela Tiffin

Plot Indians, soldiers and temperance women fight to control a wagon train hauling whiskey across the West. Denver is faced with a crisis before the winter of 1867 when it is...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Soldier Blue

1970 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Candice Bergen · Peter Strauss · Donald Pleasence · John Anderson

Plot After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Shirley Jones · Stella Stevens · Dina Merrill

Plot Six-years-old Eddie Corbett (Ron Howard) tries his best to be a matchmaker for his widowed father, Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford). At first, sexy Dollye Daly (Stella Stevens) seems promising, but...

6.4

402 votes

6.4

402 votes

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Rod Steiger · Lee Remick · George Segal · Eileen Heckart

Plot Steiger is a psychotic master of disguise who stalks and kills various women in this suspenseful cat-and-mouse game. Segal, as the detective assigned to the case, uncovers clues, falls in...

6.3

218 votes

6.3

218 votes

Sometimes a Great Notion

1970 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Paul Newman

Cast Paul Newman · Henry Fonda · Lee Remick · Michael Sarrazin

Plot Hank Stamper (Paul Newman) and his father, Henry Stamper (Henry Fonda) own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they...

6.3

842 votes

6.3

842 votes

Inherit the Wind (TV)

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jason Robards · Darren McGavin · John Harkins

Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

Witness for the Prosecution (TV)

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

57 votes

6.0

57 votes

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV)

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Tuchner

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Derek Jacobi · David Suchet · Gerry Sundquist

Plot Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and...

6.0

138 votes

6.0

138 votes

Hennessy

1975 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Rod Steiger · Lee Remick · Richard Johnson · Trevor Howard

Plot Set in the Seventies, Niall Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting...

5.8

80 votes

5.8

80 votes

Ivanhoe (TV)

1982 · Movie · 142 min. · United Kingdom

5.7

142 votes

5.7

142 votes

A Matter of Time

1976 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Liza Minnelli · Ingrid Bergman · Charles Boyer · Isabella Rossellini

Plot In the midst of a press conference, popular film star Nina flashes back to 1949 and her days as a chambermaid toiling in a dilapidated hotel in Rome, where she...

5.6

124 votes

5.6

124 votes

The Last Safari

1967 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

5.3

126 votes

5.3

126 votes

The Power

1968 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast George Hamilton · Suzanne Pleshette · Richard Carlson · Yvonne De Carlo

Plot One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is...

5.2

60 votes

5.2

60 votes

Around the World in 80 Days (TV Miniseries)

1989 · Series · 270 min. · United States

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Eric Idle · Julia Nickson · Peter Ustinov

Plot TV Miniseries. 3 Episodes. Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he...

5.1

2K votes

5.1

2K votes

4.8

78 votes