Screenplay: Paul Osborn
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Paul Osborn. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 14
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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