Screenplay: Paul Osborn

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


Portrait of Jennie

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

East of Eden

1955 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast James Dean · Raymond Massey · Julie Harris · Richard Davalos

Synopsis In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Wild River

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Montgomery Clift · Lee Remick · Jo Van Fleet · Albert Salmi

Synopsis A young idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority administrator, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) comes to a small town in Tennessee to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River in the early 1930s....

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Yearling

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Gregory Peck · Jane Wyman · Claude Jarman Jr. · Chill Wills

Synopsis Clarence Brown directed this award-winning adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a poor pioneer family struggling to eke out a living in the Florida backwoods--and the coming of age of a young boy. After the Civil War,...

6.8

718 votes

6.8

718 votes

Madame Curie

1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Basserman

Synopsis Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for...

6.7

504 votes

6.7

504 votes

Homecoming

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Anne Baxter · John Hodiak

Synopsis Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a...

6.6

51 votes

6.6

51 votes

Sayonara

1957 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marlon Brando · Miiko Taka · Red Buttons · Miyoshi Umeki

Synopsis Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer (Miiko Taka),...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Young in Heart

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Janet Gaynor · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Paulette Goddard · Roland Young

Synopsis The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss...

6.3

93 votes

6.3

93 votes

South Pacific

1958 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Mitzi Gaynor · John Kerr · Ray Walston

Synopsis It is 1943 and the United States Navy has established several bases in the Solomon Islands, in preparation for an invasion towards New Guinea and the Central Pacific. On one such island lives a French planter named Emile de Becque,...

5.9

273 votes

5.9

273 votes

On Borrowed Time

1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Cedric Hardwicke · Beulah Bondi · Una Merkel

Synopsis Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks Pud's...

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Celanese Theatre (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal · David Alexander

Cast Wendell Corey · Ralph Morgan · Philip Coolidge · Wesley Addy

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1952). 1 season. 20 episodes. This program consisted of adaptations of high-quality plays written by leading playwrights.

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Should Ladies Behave

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Conway Tearle · Katharine Alexander · Mary Carlisle

Synopsis An unhappy couple watch as their daughter throws herself at an older man because he is a sophisticated artist. The daughter doesn't know that her aunt is the man's lover. At a weekend retreat, everything comes to a head when...

Not rated

Not rated

Cry ‘Havoc’

1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Ann Sothern · Joan Blondell · Fay Bainter

Synopsis II World War, Philippines. A group of U.S Army nurses need reinforcements. Head nurse Lt. Mary “Smitty” is assigned a group of civilian women which lack of experience and she must train them. The circumstances will become more and more...

Not rated

Not rated

Invitation

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Van Johnson · Dorothy McGuire · Ruth Roman · Louis Calhern

Synopsis Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife's trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her.

Not rated

Not rated