Screenplay: Ben Ames Williams

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ben Ames Williams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gene Tierney · Cornel Wilde · Jeanne Crain · Vincent Price

Plot Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) meets and falls desperately in love with Richard Harland (Cornell Wilde), an author who resembles her late father. Ellen is pathologically possessive of Richard, jealous of...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

All the Brothers were Valiant

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Stewart Granger · Ann Blyth · Betta St. John

Plot Sea-faring saga of two brothers (Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger) and the woman they both love. Set against South Pacific islands, this love triangle pits the good brother against the bad...

6.6

774 votes

6.6

774 votes

The Strange Woman

1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer · Douglas Sirk

Cast Hedy Lamarr · George Sanders · Louis Hayward · Gene Lockhart

Plot Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by his death from her drunkard father she...

6.4

651 votes

6.4

651 votes

Small Town Girl

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Robert Taylor · Binnie Barnes · Andy Devine

Plot Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin,...

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

Johnny Trouble

1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Cecil Kellaway · Stuart Whitman · Carolyn Jones

Plot Katherine Chandler lives in an apartment house that has been purchased by the local college for a boy's dormitory. She refuses to vacate, certain that her son, who was a...

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Not a Drum Was Heard

1924 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Buck Jones · Betty Bouton · Frank Campeau · Rhody Hathaway

Plot Jack Mills loses his sweetheart, Jean Ross, to his friend, Bud Loupel. Behind in his payments on a house, Bud steals money from the bank where he works.

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Man to Man

1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Phillips Holmes · Grant Mitchell · Lucille Powers · Otis Harlan

Plot Eighteen years ago, John Bolton found the man who killed his brother Joe and shot it out. The man was killed and John went to prison. His son Mike is...

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Suspense (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul

Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey

Plot Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from...

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Jubilo, Jr. (S)

1924 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

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Someone to Remember

1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Mabel Paige · Harry Shannon · John Craven · Dorothy Morris

Plot An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he...

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Across to Singapore

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Ramon Novarro · Joan Crawford · Ernest Torrence · Frank Currier

Plot It's the mid-nineteenth century. The neighboring Shore and Crowninshield families of the American east coast have a long tradition of seafaring. Of Jeremiah Shore's four sons, the only one not...

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Adventure's End

1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast John Wayne · Diana Gibson · Montagu Love · Moroni Olsen

Plot Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.

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The Man Who Had Everything

1920 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Jack Pickford · Lionel Belmore · Priscilla Bonner · Shannon Day

Plot Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to...

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Too Busy to Work

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Will Rogers · Dick Powell · Marian Nixon · Frederick Burton

Plot After fifteen years as a tramp, shuffling Will Rogers (as Jubilo) hops a train to California and locates the man who ran away with his wife, while Mr. Rogers was...

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Jubilo

1919 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Will Rogers · Josie Sedgwick · Charles K. French · Willard Louis

Plot An easy-going tramp with a love of food and an aversion to work suddenly gets deeply involved in the life of a farmer and his daughter.

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Man Trouble

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Kenneth MacKenna · Sharon Lynn

Plot A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

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All the Brothers Were Valiant

1923 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Irvin Willat

Cast Malcolm McGregor · Billie Dove · Lon Chaney · William Orlamond

Plot Joel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel...

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