Screenplay: Bill Walsh
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bill Walsh. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Mary Poppins
1964 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Julie Andrews · Dick Van Dyke · David Tomlinson · Glynis Johns
Plot A magical nanny takes the two young children of a wealthy London banker on a journey into playful worlds and eccentric characters, eventually showing them and their cold-hearted father the...
7.1
90K votes
7.1
90K votes
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
1971 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Angela Lansbury · David Tomlinson · Roddy McDowall · Sam Jaffe
Plot When a mail-order apprentice witch (Angela Lansbury) is saddled with three sibling refugees from London during World War II, the outlook is grim. But the kids soon discover her secret...
6.7
15K votes
6.7
15K votes
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Peter Ustinov · Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Elsa Lanchester
Plot In this comedy, Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Byron Paul
Cast Dick Van Dyke · Nancy Kwan · Akim Tamiroff · Arthur Malet
Plot Lt. Robin Crusoe (Dick Van Dyke) is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house,...
6.2
185 votes
6.2
185 votes
The AbsentMinded Professor
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Fred MacMurray · Nancy Olson · Keenan Wynn · Tommy Kirk
Plot College professor Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
5.8
403 votes
5.8
403 votes
The Shaggy Dog
1959 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Fred MacMurray · Jean Hagen · Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello
Plot After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines, mail carrier Wilson Daniels sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring...
5.5
66 votes
5.5
66 votes
That Darn Cat!
1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Hayley Mills · Dean Jones · Dorothy Provine · Roddy McDowall
Plot The fur flies when a smart Siamese cat goes undercover and Hayley Mills and Dean Jones team up for mystery, adventure and wild comedy on Disney DVD. When the irrepressible...
5.3
466 votes
5.3
466 votes
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
1975 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Peter Ustinov · Helen Hayes · Clive Revill · Derek Nimmo
Plot This is a light, frothy family comedy that revolves around British Lord Southmere (Derek Nimmo), who has smuggled a piece of microfilm containing "Lotus X" out of China. Once back...
5.2
357 votes
5.2
357 votes
Son of Flubber
1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Fred MacMurray · Nancy Olson · Keenan Wynn · Tommy Kirk
Plot Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and...
5.2
83 votes
5.2
83 votes
Herbie Rides Again
1974 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Helen Hayes · Ken Berry · Stefanie Powers · John McIntire
Plot Alonzo Hawk is a mean-spirited property developer who has bought several blocks of land in the downtown district in order to build a gigantic shopping mall. There is one problem...
5.1
2K votes
5.1
2K votes
Bon Voyage!
1962 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction James Neilson
Cast Fred MacMurray · Jane Wyman · Michael Callan · Deborah Walley
Plot The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his...
5.1
42 votes
5.1
42 votes
The Love Bug (TV)
1997 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Peyton Reed
Cast Bruce Campbell · John Hannah · Alexandra Wentworth · Kevin J. O'Connor
4.4
187 votes
4.4
187 votes
Flubber
1997 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Les Mayfield
Cast Robin Williams · Marcia Gay Harden · Christopher McDonald · Raymond J. Barry
Plot Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where...
4.3
27K votes
4.3
27K votes
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1964 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello · Leon Ames · Stuart Erwin
Plot Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
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The Littlest Outlaw
1955 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Roberto Gavaldón
Cast Andrés Velázquez · Pedro Armendáriz · Joseph Calleia · Rodolfo Acosta
Plot Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The...
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Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Kevin Corcoran · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon · Bob Sweeney
Plot Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.
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The Shaggy Dog (TV)
1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Dennis Dugan
Cast Ed Begley Jr. · Sharon Lawrence · Jon Polito · James Cromwell
Plot An old ring believed to possess love powers turns a museum manager's (Ed Begley Jr.) shy son (Scott Weinger) into a sheep dog.
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Scandalous John
1971 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Robert Butler
Cast Brian Keith · Alfonso Arau · Michele Carey · Rick Lenz
Plot A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
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