Screenplay: Harold Buchman

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


The Sleeping Tiger

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Alexis Smith · Alexander Knox · Hugh Griffith

Synopsis A thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist, who captures him. In exchange for his freedom, the thief agrees to become a guinea pig for the doctor's rehabilitation theories with ultimately tragic results.

6.5

140 votes

6.5

140 votes

Petrocelli (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie · Harold Buchman · Irving J. Moore · Herb Wallerstein

Cast Barry Newman · Susan Howard · Albert Salmi · David Huddleston

Synopsis Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country...

6.0

38 votes

6.0

38 votes

Doll Face

1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Vivian Blaine · Dennis O'Keefe · Perry Como · Carmen Miranda

Synopsis Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a...

5.2

95 votes

5.2

95 votes

It Can't Last Forever

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Betty Furness · Robert Armstrong · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's...

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Counsel for Crime

1937 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Otto Kruger · Douglass Montgomery · Julie Bishop · Thurston Hall

Synopsis Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator...

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Double Alibi

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Wayne Morris · Margaret Lindsay · William Gargan · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

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Direction Léonide Moguy

Cast George Sanders · Philip Dorn · Brenda Marshall · Madeleine LeBeau

Synopsis This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance leader. Sanders' nurse (Brenda Marshall) is likewise a French patriot--less so the nurse's husband (Philip Dorn), who has become disillusioned after two...

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On the Fiddle

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Alfred Lynch · Sean Connery · Victor Maddern · Harry Locke

Synopsis When he is pulled up in court for selling stuff on the street, Horace Pope says he was only doing it while waiting to enlist. The judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up. Pope makes friends with...

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The Perfect Snob

1941 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Charles Ruggles · Charlotte Greenwood · Lynn Bari · Cornel Wilde

Synopsis Dr. Mason, a veterinarian, gets word of the engagement of his daughter, Chris Mason, and takes off for Honolulu to take a look at his future son-in-law. Finding that the fiancée, Freddie Browning, is old enough to be Chris's father,...

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Cynthia

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · George Murphy · S.Z. Sakall · Mary Astor

Synopsis Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.

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The Lawyer

1970 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Barry Newman · Harold Gould · Diana Muldaur · Robert Colbert

Synopsis Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.

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Hero for a Day

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Anita Louise · Dick Foran · Charley Grapewin · Emma Dunn

Synopsis When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.

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The Devil Is Driving

1937 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Richard Dix · Joan Perry · Nana Bryant · Ian Wolfe

Synopsis To regain the trust of his girlfriend, an unscrupulous lawyer decides to mend his ways and follow a straighter path.

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It Happened in Flatbush

1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Carole Landis · Sara Allgood · William Frawley

Synopsis A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis).

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A Gentleman at Heart

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Cesar Romero · Carole Landis · Milton Berle · J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis A bookie (Cesar Romero) takes over a bankrupt art gallery and falls in love with a beautiful blonde (Carole Landis)

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The Forgotten Woman

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Sigrid Gurie · William Lundigan · Eve Arden · Donald Briggs

Synopsis A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.

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Don't Gamble with Love

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Ann Sothern · Bruce Cabot · Irving Pichel · Ian Keith

Synopsis A reformed gambler returns to his old ways despite the fact that it means losing his wife.

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Jennie

1940 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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Trapped by Television

1936 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Del Lord

Cast Mary Astor · Lyle Talbot · Nat Pendleton · Joyce Compton

Synopsis An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

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