Screenplay: Guy Trosper
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Guy Trosper. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Burt Lancaster · Karl Malden · Neville Brand · Thelma Ritter
Plot Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster), a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life...
7.9
6K votes
7.9
6K votes
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction Marlon Brando
Cast Marlon Brando · Karl Malden · Pina Pellicer · Katy Jurado
Plot Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who...
7.1
5K votes
7.1
5K votes
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck
Plot When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Devil's Doorway
1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Robert Taylor · Louis Calhern · Paula Raymond · Marshall Thompson
Plot A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
7.0
760 votes
7.0
760 votes
Eyes in the Night
1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Edward Arnold · Ann Harding · Donna Reed · Stephen McNally
Plot Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter....
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 votes
Many Rivers to Cross
1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · Victor McLaglen · Jeff Richards
Plot A coonskin-hat-wearing, fur-trapping frontiersmen (Robert Taylor) is set on making his fortune in the Northwest Territory. But that's easier said the done, especially when he passes through Barren River, Kentucky,...
6.0
322 votes
6.0
322 votes
Darby's Rangers
1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast James Garner · Etchika Choureau · Jack Warden · Edd Byrnes
Plot Garner portrays Major William Darby, the leader of an elite commando brigade that faces the Axis powers in North Africa and Italy. He unexpectedly finds himself spending equal amounts of...
5.7
66 votes
5.7
66 votes
Crossroads
1942 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast William Powell · Hedy Lamarr · Claire Trevor · Basil Rathbone
Plot Diplomat is blackmailed for crimes committed while he had amnesia.
5.6
76 votes
5.6
76 votes
Jailhouse Rock
1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Elvis Presley · Judy Tyler · Mickey Shaughnessy · Vaughn Taylor
Plot Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to...
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
The Americano
1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Glenn Ford · Frank Lovejoy · Cesar Romero · Ursula Thiess
Plot Glenn Ford stars in this lush and unusual "south-western" as Sam Dent, a rancher who travels to South America to deliver a shipment of bulls to a Brazilian ranch owner....
5.1
165 votes
5.1
165 votes
Thunder in the Sun
1959 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Russell Rouse
Cast Susan Hayward · Jeff Chandler · Jacques Bergerac · Blanche Yurka
Plot A western about a wagon train of french Basque immigrants -running away from the Napoleonic Wars to America- making its way through Indian territory with a cargo of special vines...
4.8
216 votes
4.8
216 votes
The True Glory
1945 · Documentary · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Garson Kanin · Carol Reed
Plot A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan...
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Son of the Mountains
1965 · Movie · 85 min. · Turkey
Direction Yilmaz Atadeniz
Cast Yilmaz Güney · Nebahat Çehre · Erol Tas · Reha Yurdakul
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Inside Straight
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Gerald Mayer
Cast David Brian · Arlene Dahl · Barry Sullivan · Mercedes McCambridge
Plot Rip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" (and other stuff walks), as does the audience via flashbacks, and when he arrives in San Francisco, he has no...
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I'll Wait for You
1941 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Robert B. Sinclair
Cast Robert Sterling · Marsha Hunt · Virginia Weidler · Paul Kelly
Plot A wounded gangster's recuperation on a remote farm leads to love.
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Girl Trouble
1942 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster
Cast Don Ameche · Joan Bennett · Billie Burke · Frank Craven
Plot A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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The Pride of St. Louis
1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Harmon Jones
Cast Dan Dailey · Joanne Dru · Richard Hylton · Richard Crenna
Plot The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Girl He Left Behind
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Tab Hunter · Natalie Wood · Jessie Royce Landis · Jim Backus
Plot College students Andy Shaeffer and Susan Daniels are pinned. While Susan works hard to put herself through college, Andy sponges off his parents, his mother, Madeline Shaeffer, who in particular...
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The Steel Cage
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Walter Doniger
Cast Paul Kelly · Maureen O'Sullivan · Walter Slezak · John Ireland
Plot Louis, a prison cook, is about to be paroled, upsetting fellow inmate Brenner, who loves Louis's food so much that he tries to bribe him to stay behind bars. After...
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