Screenplay: James Warner Bellah

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by James Warner Bellah. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin

Synopsis Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters the truth about how he came to be known as...

8.3

32K votes

8.3

32K votes

Fort Apache

1948 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · John Wayne · Shirley Temple · Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis In Fort Apache (1948), a rigid and ambitious Colonel takes command of a remote U.S. Cavalry outpost, clashing with his seasoned Captain over tactics and respect for the local Native American tribe. As tensions rise, the Colonel's stubbornness leads to...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Joanne Dru · John Agar · Ben Johnson

Synopsis In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), aging Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles prepares for retirement amidst rising tensions with Native American tribes. Tasked with one final mission, he must escort his commanding officer's wife and niece to safety while preventing...

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

Sergeant Rutledge

1960 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Woody Strode · Jeffrey Hunter · Constance Towers · Billie Burke

Synopsis Sergeant Rutledge (1960) follows Braxton Rutledge, a respected Black cavalry sergeant accused of assaulting and murdering a white officer's daughter in 1880s Arizona. As his court-martial unfolds, flashbacks reveal Rutledge's loyalty and heroism within the 9th Cavalry, an all-Black regiment....

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Rio Grande

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Ben Johnson · Chill Wills

Synopsis The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote Army outpost along the Mexican border faced with two crises:...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Dancing Lady

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Fred Astaire

Synopsis Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he...

6.4

179 votes

6.4

179 votes

The Sea Chase

1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Lana Turner · David Farrar · Lyle Bettger

Synopsis As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.

6.1

540 votes

6.1

540 votes

The Command

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Guy Madison · Joan Weldon · James Whitmore · Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis An army doctor, with no combat experience, is forced to take command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's commanding officer dies.

5.7

114 votes

5.7

114 votes

5.5

178 votes

Ten Tall Men

1951 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Willis Goldbeck

Cast Burt Lancaster · Jody Lawrance · Gilbert Roland · Kieron Moore

Synopsis Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission...

5.4

222 votes

5.4

222 votes

X-15

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast David McLean · Charles Bronson · Ralph Taeger · Brad Dexter

Synopsis The courageous pilots of the Air Force's X-15 program are determined to take an experimental rocket 100 miles above the earth... at four times the speed of sound! At stake is American air supremacy and proof that space travel is...

4.8

40 votes

4.8

40 votes

Target Zero

1955 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Richard Conte · Peggie Castle · Charles Bronson · Richard Wyler

Synopsis Set during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers, together with three British Tank Crew, find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Don Taylor · Alan Cooke · Stephen Frears · Leonard Lewis

Cast Judi Dench · Richard O'Callaghan · Frederick Treves · John Shrapnel

Synopsis TV Series (1977- ). 38 episodies.

Not rated

Not rated