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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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,...
5.8
3K votes
5.8
3K votes
Mrs. Mike
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Dick Powell · Evelyn Keyes · J.M. Kerrigan · Angela Clarke
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Yellow Canary
1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Wilcox
Cast Anna Neagle · Richard Greene · Nova Pilbeam · Albert Lieven
Plot 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...
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The Girl in the Kremlin
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Russell Birdwell
Cast Lex Barker · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Jeffrey Stone · Maurice Manson
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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
Plot 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...
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction John Brahm · Roy Kellino · Ted Post · Jus Addiss
Cast Irene Dunne · Arthur Franz · Lee Van Cleef · John Doucette
Plot TV Series (1951-1959). 8 seasons. 363 episodes. An anthology series.
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Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Anton Leader · James Neilson · Gerald Freedman · James Sheldon
Cast Scott Brady · Angela Lansbury · Howard Duff · Phil Carey
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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
Plot 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...
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