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

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

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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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