Screenplay: William Rose
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William Rose. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 21
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Houghton
Synopsis Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the...
7.6
17K votes
7.6
17K votes
The Ladykillers
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Alec Guinness · Kate Johnson · Herbert Lom · Peter Sellers
Synopsis A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The...
7.5
7K votes
7.5
7K votes
The Maggie
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Paul Douglas · Alex Mackenzie · James Copeland · Abe Barker
7.0
218 votes
7.0
218 votes
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1969 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi
Synopsis Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Synopsis After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
The Smallest Show on Earth
1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Virginia McKenna · Bill Travers · Peter Sellers · Margaret Rutherford
Synopsis Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's...
6.5
25 votes
6.5
25 votes
Genevieve
1953 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cornelius
Cast Dinah Sheridan · John Gregson · Kay Kendall · Kenneth More
Synopsis It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate...
6.4
222 votes
6.4
222 votes
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
1966 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Alan Arkin · Eva Marie Saint · Paul Ford · Brian Keith
Synopsis When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
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The Flim-Flam Man
1967 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Kershner
Cast George C. Scott · Sue Lyon · Harry Morgan · Jack Albertson
Synopsis Winning, rare light-hearted role for George C. Scott as a scam artist working the back roads down South. He takes on a young army deserter (Sarrazin) as an apprentice. Much...
6.0
67 votes
6.0
67 votes
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
1974 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Dick Randall
Cast Rossano Brazzi · Michael Dunn · Edmund Purdom · Gordon Mitchell
Synopsis Count Frankenstein has been conducting experiments in an attempt to bring the dead back to life. When a caveman is discovered near the village and beaten to death by a...
2.7
51 votes
2.7
51 votes
Song of Paris
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Dennis Price · Mischa Auer · Anne Vernon · Hermione Baddeley
Synopsis Matthew Ibbetson (Dennis Price) is a rather prim young man who has recently succeeded his father as head of a family firm producing patent medicines. Concerned about falling sales in...
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The Girl in 2A
1974 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction William Rose
Cast Daniela Giordano · Raf Vallone · John Scanlon · Angelo Infanti
Synopsis A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
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I'll Get You for This
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast George Raft · Coleen Gray · Enzo Staiola · Charles Goldner
Synopsis American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he...
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50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing)
1963 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction William Rose · Arnold Drake
Cast Charlie Robinson · Irving Selig · Al Monaco · Dino Tarronova
Synopsis A man travels back in time and meets prehistoric cavepeople who are often nude.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1949 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Lee
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Bonar Colleano · Bill Owen · Renée Asherson
Synopsis Set in the 1930s, factory worker Bill Fox quits his job and becomes a speedway rider the Cobra Speedway. Thetrack owner, Rowton, puts Fox in a novice race that he...
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My Daughter Joy
1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Peggy Cummins · Richard Greene · Nora Swinburne
Synopsis A business tycoon spoils his young daughter, but his relationship with his wife leaves much to be desired.
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Esther Waters
1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ian Dalrymple · Peter Proud
Cast Kathleen Ryan · Dirk Bogarde · Cyril Cusack · Ivor Barnard
Synopsis Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up...
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Touch and Go
1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Truman
Cast Jack Hawkins · Margaret Johnston · June Thorburn · Roland Culver
Synopsis When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his...
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The Hookers
1967 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Jalo Miklos Horthy
Cast Fleurette Carter · Jacque Lynn Colton · Monica Davis · Joel Holt
Synopsis The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
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Gift Horse
1952 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Trevor Howard · Richard Attenborough · Sonny Tufts · James Donald
Synopsis The captain of a old destroyer in 1940 struggles with his crew as well as the Nazis.
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