Screenplay: Thomas W. Blackburn

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Thomas W. Blackburn. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Disneyland (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 120 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton Luske · Norman Tokar · James Neilson · Wilfred Jackson

Cast Walt Disney · Paul Frees · Clarence Nash · Roger Mobley

Synopsis The Walt Disney anthology television series is a television series that has been produced by the Walt Disney Company under several different titles since 1954. These include Disneyland (1954–1958), Walt Disney Presents (1958–1961), Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969),...

7.3

61 votes

7.3

61 votes

Riding Shotgun

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Randolph Scott · Wayne Morris · Joan Weldon · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang

5.8

186 votes

5.8

186 votes

Cattle Queen of Montana

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ronald Reagan · Gene Evans · Lance Fuller

Synopsis The Jones family, about to prove claim to prime Montana land, is raided by renegade Indians in league with villainous neighbor McCord, who gets most of the stolen cattle. Two survivors are helped by college-educated chief's son Colorados. Now Sierra...

5.6

225 votes

5.6

225 votes

Johnny Tremain

1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Hal Stalmaster · Luana Patten · Jeff York · Sebastian Cabot

Synopsis In colonial Boston, a young silversmith's apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.

5.3

27 votes

5.3

27 votes

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Fess Parker · Buddy Ebsen · Basil Ruysdael · Hans Conried

Synopsis Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davey Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress...

5.2

66 votes

5.2

66 votes

Colt. 45

1950 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Randolph Scott · Zachary Scott · Ruth Roman · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis Randolph Scott stars as a gun salesman whose sample case of Colt 45's is stolen by an outlaw (Zachary Scott). Accused of being a member of the outlaw gang when they start using the Colts in their holdups, the salesman...

5.0

254 votes

5.0

254 votes

Sierra Baron

1958 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

4.9

33 votes

4.9

33 votes

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Fess Parker · Buddy Ebsen · Jeff York · Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off...

4.7

54 votes

4.7

54 votes

Johnny Tiger

1966 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Robert Taylor · Geraldine Brooks · Chad Everett · Brenda Scott

Synopsis A widowed schoolteacher arrives at a Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades with his three children. He's determined to bring these Indians into the modern world but his contempt for their ways meets with resistance.

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Cavalry Scout

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Rod Cameron · Audrey Long · Jim Davis · James Millican

Synopsis Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to...

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Sierra Passage

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Wayne Morris · Lola Albright · Lloyd Corrigan · Alan Hale Jr.

Synopsis When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.

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Short Grass

1950 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Rod Cameron · Cathy Downs · Johnny Mack Brown · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis Steve Lewellyn (Rod Cameron), a drifter, comes into New Mexico just as it is about to be opened up to the law and to commerce by the oncoming railroad, but where a gun is still the deciding factor in disputes...

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The Redeemer

1959 · Movie · 85 min. · Spain

Direction Joseph Breen · Fernando Palacios

Cast Luis Álvarez · Maruchi Fresno · Manuel Monroy · Félix Acaso

Synopsis The Passion of Jesus starting with His arrest and trial that was shot near Madrid and features narration by Sebastion Cabot. Jesus' face is never seen but in the English version he is voiced by veteran Hollywood actor Macdonald Carey.

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Mara of the Wilderness

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Adam West · Lori Saunders · Lelia Walsh · Denver Pyle

Synopsis A young woman who has lived only with the wolves for company in the wilds of Alaska is discovered by an anthropologist and, at the same time, by a brutal hunter.

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Cow Country

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Helen Westcott · Robert Lowery · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Earnest Western set in 1880s Texas, with O'Brien coming to the rescue of debt-ridden ranchers struggling against villainous Lowery and his cronies.

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Raton Pass

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Dennis Morgan · Patricia Neal · Steve Cochran · Scott Forbes

Synopsis The ambitious Ann arrives with the stagecoach in Raton Pass to find herself in the midst of a feud between the Challon and the Pozner families. Ann immediately seeks out Marc Challon, a young man from the richest cattle ranch...

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Cattle Town

1952 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Noel M. Smith

Cast Dennis Morgan · Phil Carey · Amanda Blake · Rita Moreno

Synopsis Following the Civil War, the state of Texas, needing money, sells land to a syndicate of northerners headed by Judd Hastings (Ray Teal). When Hastings demands the land, and the squatters refuses to vacate, the governor sends Mike McGann (Dennis...

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Westward Ho the Wagons!

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Fess Parker · Kathleen Crowley · Jeff York · David Stollery

Synopsis Wagon master James Stephen leads a wagon train of settlers, including his wife and children, across the vast plains. Prominent among the settlers is Doc Grayson, who though not really a doctor provides what medical care he can to the...

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