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

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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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Not rated

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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Not rated