Screenplay: Edmund H. North

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edmund H. North. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Colorado Territory

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Patton

1970 · Movie · 169 min. · United States

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast George C. Scott · Karl Malden · Stephen Young · Michael Bates

Synopsis Patton (1970) is a biographical war film that chronicles the life of General George S. Patton, a brilliant and controversial American military leader during World War II. The film explores his strategic genius, unorthodox methods, and fiery personality as he...

7.3

22K votes

7.3

22K votes

The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Michael Rennie · Patricia Neal · Hugh Marlowe · Sam Jaffe

Synopsis The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) follows an extraterrestrial named Klaatu who arrives on Earth in a flying saucer, accompanied by a powerful robot named Gort. Landing in Washington, D.C., Klaatu delivers a message of peace but is met...

7.0

17K votes

7.0

17K votes

6.8

26 votes

H.M.S. Defiant

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Synopsis The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The Proud Ones

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Ryan · Virginia Mayo · Jeffrey Hunter · Robert Middleton

Synopsis Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An...

6.4

298 votes

6.4

298 votes

Only the Valiant

1951 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Gregory Peck · Barbara Payton · Ward Bond · Gig Young

Synopsis Capt. Richard Lance (Gregory Peck) is unjustly held responsible, by his men & girlfriend, for an Indian massacre death of beloved Lt. Holloway. Holloway (Gig Young) is killed while escorting a dangerous Indian chief to another fort's prison. The chief...

6.4

307 votes

6.4

307 votes

Sink the Bismarck!

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Dana Wynter · Carl Möhner · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search...

6.3

526 votes

6.3

526 votes

Dishonored Lady

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Dennis O'Keefe · John Loder · William Lundigan

Synopsis Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine by day and a lively party girl by night. Unfortunately, the pressures of her job, including kowtowing to a hefty advertiser, and her bad luck with men are driving...

6.0

227 votes

6.0

227 votes

The Far Horizons

1955 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Fred MacMurray · Charlton Heston · Donna Reed · Barbara Hale

Synopsis After the United States acquired Louisiana from France, explorers Meriwether Lewis (MacMurray) and William Clark (Heston) lead an expedition to survey the territory where no white man has ever gone before. With the help of Sacajawea (Reed), the two men...

6.0

529 votes

6.0

529 votes

Destry

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Audie Murphy · Mari Blanchard · Lyle Bettger · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis In the old West, a small frontier town is being controlled by ruthless mob boss Decker and his cronies. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to have the town drunk appointed sheriff, thinking he will be...

5.8

107 votes

5.8

107 votes

The Lady Takes a Flyer

1958 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Lana Turner · Jeff Chandler · Richard Denning · Andra Martin

Synopsis Daredevil pilot Mike Dandridge goes into a business partnership with flight-school pal Al Reynolds and meets Maggie Colby, who's also a pilot. The two flyers take cargo to Japan, where they become romantically involved. Al is best man at their...

5.2

24 votes

5.2

24 votes

Fireball Forward (TV)

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Ben Gazzara · Ricardo Montalban · Anne Francis · Dana Elcar

Synopsis A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.

5.1

73 votes

5.1

73 votes

I Dream Too Much

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Lily Pons · Henry Fonda · Eric Blore · Osgood Perkins

Synopsis Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and does the cooking and cleaning. To...

5.0

30 votes

5.0

30 votes

Submarine X-1

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William A. Graham

Cast James Caan · David Sumner · Norman Bowler · Brian Grellis

Synopsis After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.

5.0

125 votes

5.0

125 votes

Meteor

1979 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Sean Connery · Natalie Wood · Henry Fonda · Karl Malden

Synopsis Sean Connery leads a team of asteroid-battling astronomers in Meteor, one of the last and most unusual examples of the disaster movie craze of the 1970s. In this one, a killer asteroid named Orpheus threatens to collide with the Earth,...

4.8

1K votes

4.8

1K votes

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Scott Derrickson

Cast Keanu Reeves · Jennifer Connelly · Kathy Bates · John Cleese

Synopsis In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), an alien spacecraft lands in Central Park, New York, carrying a humanoid extraterrestrial named Klaatu and a giant robotic guardian. Klaatu seeks to communicate with world leaders about an impending global crisis,...

4.6

29K votes

4.6

29K votes

All the King's Horses

1935 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Carl Brisson · Mary Ellis · Edward Everett Horton · Katherine DeMille

Synopsis King Rudolf XIV of Langenstein, is too busy to make love to his wife, Queen Elaine of Langenstein, and good Queen Elaine is upset royally about it. She departs the palace and tells him she will not return until he...

Not rated

Not rated

I'm Still Alive

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Kent Taylor · Linda Hayes · Howard Da Silva · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis Steve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she, fearing for his life, at her...

Not rated

Not rated

The Fiercest Heart

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Stuart Whitman · Juliet Prowse · Ken Scott · Raymond Massey

Synopsis Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who...

Not rated

Not rated