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
Direction Laslo Benedek
Cast Marlon Brando · Mary Murphy · Robert Keith · Lee Marvin
6.4
3K votes
6.4
3K votes
Crack-Up
1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Irving Reis
Cast Pat O'Brien · Claire Trevor · Herbert Marshall · Ray Collins
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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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