Screenplay: Dennis Shryack
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dennis Shryack. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Pale Rider
1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn
Plot A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the...
7.4
19K votes
7.4
19K votes
The Gauntlet
1977 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Pat Hingle · William Prince
Plot In Phoenix, the alcoholic and mediocre detective Ben Shockley is assigned by the Chief Commissary Blakelock to bring the witness Gus Mally from Las Vegas for a minor trial. Shockley...
6.0
6K votes
6.0
6K votes
Flashpoint
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction William Tannen
Cast Kris Kristofferson · Treat Williams · Rip Torn · Kevin Conway
Plot Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to...
5.7
35 votes
5.7
35 votes
The Car
1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Elliot Silverstein
Cast James Brolin · Kathleen Lloyd · John Marley · Ronny Cox
Plot While traveling through the desert nearby the small town of Santa Ynez on their bicycles to camp, two teenage bicyclers are murdered by a mysterious black car. Then the car...
5.7
592 votes
5.7
592 votes
Run
1991 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Geoff Burrowes
Cast Patrick Dempsey · Kelly Preston · David Cameron · Gerry Davey
5.6
315 votes
5.6
315 votes
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Burt Kennedy
Cast Robert Mitchum · George Kennedy · Martin Balsam · David Carradine
5.5
261 votes
5.5
261 votes
Cadence
1990 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Martin Sheen
Cast Charlie Sheen · Martin Sheen · Laurence Fishburne · Jay Brazeau
Plot Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.
5.4
206 votes
5.4
206 votes
Turner & Hooch
1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Roger Spottiswoode
Cast Tom Hanks · Mare Winningham · Reginald Veljohnson · Craig T. Nelson
Plot Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is...
4.8
13K votes
4.8
13K votes
Revenge on the Highway (TV)
1992 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Craig R. Baxley
Cast Stacy Keach · Lisa Banes · Tom Bower · Thomas Wilson Brown
Plot At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a...
4.7
24 votes
4.7
24 votes
Murder by Phone
1981 · Movie · 79 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Richard Chamberlain · John Houseman · Sara Botsford · Robin Gammell
4.7
70 votes
4.7
70 votes
Rent-a-Cop
1987 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Jerry London
Cast Burt Reynolds · Liza Minnelli · James Remar · Richard Masur
Plot When call-girl Della (Liza Minnelli) gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber...
4.2
125 votes
4.2
125 votes
Code of Silence
1985 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Andrew Davis
Cast Chuck Norris · Henry Silva · Bert Remsen · Mike Genovese
4.0
972 votes
4.0
972 votes
Hero and the Terror
1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William Tannen
Cast Chuck Norris · Brynn Thayer · Steve James · Jack O'Halloran
Plot Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by...
4.0
518 votes
4.0
518 votes
Aces 'N Eights (TV)
2008 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Craig R. Baxley
Cast Casper Van Dien · Bruce Boxleitner · Ernest Borgnine · Jeff Kober
Plot Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and...
2.7
165 votes
2.7
165 votes
Fifty/Fifty
1992 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Charles Martin Smith
Cast Peter Weller · Robert Hays · Charles Martin Smith · Lim Kay Tong
Plot Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
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Malevolent
2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Terlesky
Cast Lou Diamond Phillips · Edoardo Ballerini · Kari Wuhrer · Gwen McGee
Plot Detective Jack Lucas, a harried, self-hating, Los Angeles police detective races against the clock to clear his name when he's framed for a series of killings committed by a crafty...
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