Screenplay: Emmet Lavery
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Emmet Lavery. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Bickford · Ralph Bellamy · Rod Steiger
Plot The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of...
6.3
476 votes
6.3
476 votes
The First Legion
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Charles Boyer · William Demarest · Lyle Bettger · Barbara Rush
6.0
44 votes
6.0
44 votes
Hitler's Children
1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Tim Holt · Bonita Granville · Kent Smith · Otto Kruger
Plot This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols' American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Karl, from the latter, is attracted to German-American...
5.7
189 votes
5.7
189 votes
Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Margo · Tom Neal · J. Carrol Naish · Robert Ryan
Plot Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. He hopes to work for American engineer O'Hara, and falls for his secretary Tama, but he is...
4.5
30 votes
4.5
30 votes
Forever and a Day
1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Lloyd · Victor Saville
Cast Kent Smith · June Lockhart · Ray Milland · Claude Rains
Plot In this episodic, World War II film, an American (Kent Smith) travels to London to sell the stately old house that belongs to his family. While he's visiting the home,...
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Lincoln (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1974 · Series · min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Hal Holbrook · Sada Thompson · Michael Cristofer · James Carroll Jordan
Plot (1974-1975). 6 episodes.
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Going My Way (TV Series)
1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney · Fielder Cook · Robert Florey · Alan Crosland Jr.
Cast Gene Kelly · Leo G. Carroll · Dick York · Nydia Westman
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The Magnificent Yankee
1950 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Louis Calhern · Ann Harding · Eduard Franz · Philip Ober
Plot The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his play of the same title, which was in-turn adapted from the book Mr. Justice Holmes...
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Bright Road
1953 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Gerald Mayer
Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Philip Hepburn · Harry Belafonte · Barbara Randolph
Plot Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
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Guilty of Treason
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Charles Bickford · Bonita Granville · Paul Kelly · Richard Derr
Plot The story of Cardinal József Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist...
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The Magnificent Yankee (TV)
1965 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Alfred Lunt · Lynn Fontanne · William Griffis · Ion Berger
Plot The life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, from his appointment to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt, through the administrations of Taft, Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dramatizes the love...
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Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot
1957 · Movie · 34 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast Jack Lord · Leora Dana · Margery Maude · Richard Striker
Plot This is a 37-minute orientation film, filmed in the spring of 1956, for visitors to historic Colonial Williamsburg, and photographed in the area restored by the Rockerfeller Foundation. The plot...
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Night in paradise
1946 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Merle Oberon · Turhan Bey · Thomas Gomez · Gale Sondergaard
Plot Story-teller Aesop tries to help loony King Croesus and manages to fall in love on the way.
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