Screenplay: John Paxton

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


Crossfire

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Robert Mitchum · Robert Young · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame

Plot This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Murder, My Sweet

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Claire Trevor · Anne Shirley · Otto Kruger

Plot Detective Philip Marlowe''s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Fourteen Hours (14 Hours)

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Paul Douglas · Richard Basehart · Barbara Bel Geddes · Debra Paget

Plot A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a...

6.8

253 votes

6.8

253 votes

Rope of Sand

1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Peter Lorre

Plot Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat...

6.7

146 votes

6.7

146 votes

On the Beach

1959 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Fred Astaire · Anthony Perkins

Plot In 1964, nuclear war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

So Well Remembered

1947 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Mills · Martha Scott · Patricia Roc · Trevor Howard

Plot On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper...

6.5

37 votes

6.5

37 votes

The Cobweb

1955 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Richard Widmark · Lauren Bacall · Charles Boyer · Gloria Grahame

Plot At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for...

6.4

401 votes

6.4

401 votes

The Wild One

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Crack-Up

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

6.2

65 votes

6.2

65 votes

Cornered

1945 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Walter Slezak · Micheline Cheirel · Nina Vale

Plot On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his...

6.1

248 votes

6.1

248 votes

Kotch

1971 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Jack Lemmon

Cast Walter Matthau · Deborah Winters · Felicia Farr · Charles Aidman

Plot Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles. He dotes upon his young grandson Duncan irritating high-strung Wilma to the point...

5.7

85 votes

5.7

85 votes

A Prize of Gold

1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Widmark · Mai Zetterling · Nigel Patrick · George Cole

Plot Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh! In this Taut post-war thriller Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American army sergeant who steals a shipment of Nazi...

5.4

78 votes

5.4

78 votes

Interpol

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Victor Mature · Anita Ekberg · Trevor Howard · Bonar Colleano

Plot U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis trails international dope smuggler Frank McNally by following his reluctant accomplice, Gina Broger, through the "pickup alleys" of New York, London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and...

5.2

62 votes

5.2

62 votes

My Pal Wolf

1944 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Sharyn Moffett · Jill Esmond · Una O'Connor · George Cleveland

Plot A girl with a strict governess heads to Washington to purchase her dog from the Secretary of War.

Not rated

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How to Murder a Rich Uncle

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nigel Patrick

Cast Nigel Patrick · Charles Coburn · Wendy Hiller · Kate Johnson

Plot The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of...

Not rated

Not rated

I Am the Greatest! - The Adventures of Muhammad Ali (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 22 min. · United States

Direction Fred Calvert · Janis Diamond · John Paxton · Kimie Calvert

Plot An animated series featuring heavyweight boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who starred as his own voice.

Not rated

Not rated

Aftermath

1960 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast James Best · William Phipps · Gina Gillespie · Fess Parker

Plot Aftermath was the pilot for an unsold TV series called The Code of Jonathan West; it aired as part of The General Electric Theater. The film takes place just after...

Not rated

Not rated