Screenplay: William Rose

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William Rose. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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 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

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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