Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen

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


Billy Budd

1962 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master-at-Arms John Claggert...

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

Cat People

1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Simone Simon · Kent Smith · Tom Conway · Jane Randolph

Synopsis Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally...

7.3

8K votes

7.3

8K votes

I Remember Mama

1948 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Irene Dunne · Barbara Bel Geddes · Oskar Homolka · Ellen Corby

Synopsis The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. We follow the Hansens' small joys, sorrows, and aspirations, with the boisterous antics of Uncle Chris as counterpoint.

6.6

182 votes

6.6

182 votes

The Enchanted Cottage

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Robert Young · Herbert Marshall · Mildred Natwick

Synopsis A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than...

6.6

150 votes

6.6

150 votes

The Seventh Victim

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Tom Conway · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell · Kim Hunter

Synopsis Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) travels to New York City to find her missing sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks). In her search she discovers that Jacqueline has become involved with a Satanist cult, The Palladists. Having spoken about the Palladists' existence to...

6.4

830 votes

6.4

830 votes

Night Song

1947 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Dana Andrews · Merle Oberon · Ethel Barrymore · Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise....

6.4

77 votes

6.4

77 votes

The Curse of the Cat People

1944 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise · Gunther von Fritsch

Cast Simone Simon · Kent Smith · Jane Randolph · Ann Carter

Synopsis This mostly unrelated sequel to Cat People (1942) has Amy, the young daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a...

6.2

743 votes

6.2

743 votes

Cat People

1982 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Nastassja Kinski · Malcolm McDowell · John Heard · Annette O'Toole

Synopsis A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex....

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

Mrs. Mike

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

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Yellow Canary

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Richard Greene · Nova Pilbeam · Albert Lieven

Synopsis In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence...

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The Star and the Story (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Roy Kellino · Robert Stevenson · Peter Godfrey · Lewis R. Foster

Cast Hugh Sanders · Frank Lovejoy · Hillary Brooke · Robin Hughes

Synopsis Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors and actresses that went onto bigger things.

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Direction John Brahm · Roy Kellino · Ted Post · Jus Addiss

Cast Irene Dunne · Arthur Franz · Lee Van Cleef · John Doucette

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1959). 8 seasons. 363 episodes. An anthology series.

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12 to the Moon

1960 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction David Bradley

Cast Ken Clark · Michi Kobi · Tom Conway · Anthony Dexter

Synopsis An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon in an uncommonly spacious rocketship. There they encounter a faceless alien intelligence who conclude that the human race is too immature and dangerous and must be destroyed.

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Not rated