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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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,...
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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
Plot 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...
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Double Alibi
1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Wayne Morris · Margaret Lindsay · William Gargan · Roscoe Karns
Plot A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Paris After Dark (The Night is Ending)
1943 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Léonide Moguy
Cast George Sanders · Philip Dorn · Brenda Marshall · Madeleine LeBeau
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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
Plot 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
Plot To regain the trust of his girlfriend, an unscrupulous lawyer decides to mend his ways and follow a straighter path.
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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
Plot 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
Plot 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
Plot 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
Direction David Burton
Cast Virginia Gilmore · William Henry · George Montgomery · Ludwig Stössel
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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
Plot 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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