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
Direction Robert F. McGowan
Cast Joe Cobb · Jackie Condon · Mickey Daniels · Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
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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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