Screenplay: Richard Connell
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard Connell. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Meet John Doe
1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan
Plot Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong
Plot After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Our Relations
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Harry Lachman
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Alan Hale · Sidney Toler
Plot Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's...
6.7
306 votes
6.7
306 votes
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran
6.5
204 votes
6.5
204 votes
Brother Orchid
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp
Plot Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds...
6.3
169 votes
6.3
169 votes
The Milky Way
1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale
Plot Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the...
6.3
649 votes
6.3
649 votes
Nice Girl?
1941 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Walter Brennan · Robert Stack
5.9
25 votes
5.9
25 votes
The Hunt
2020 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Craig Zobel
Cast Betty Gilpin · Hilary Swank · Ike Barinholtz · Wayne Duvall
Plot The film follows a group of ‘rednecks’ who are captured and hunted for sport by rich, liberal elites. An adaptation of Richard Connell's 1924 classic about 12 american strangers in...
5.9
10K votes
5.9
10K votes
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Walker · June Allyson · Carl Esmond
Plot A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.
5.8
30 votes
5.8
30 votes
Run for the Sun
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Richard Widmark · Trevor Howard · Jane Greer · Peter van Eyck
Plot Run for the Sun is a 1956 film released by United Artists, the third film to officially be based on Richard Connell's classic suspense story, "The Most Dangerous Game", after...
5.8
338 votes
5.8
338 votes
Most Dangerous Game (TV Series)
2020 · Series · 8 min. · United States
Direction Phil Abraham
Cast Liam Hemsworth · Christoph Waltz · Sarah Gadon · Carolina Bartczak
Plot TV Series (2020). 15 Episodes. Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a...
5.5
930 votes
5.5
930 votes
A Game of Death
1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast John Loder · Audrey Long · Edgar Barrier · Russell Wade
Plot A remake of Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," about a madman who hunts human prey on his personal island habitat.
5.4
28 votes
5.4
28 votes
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
1987 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Ken Dixon
Cast Elizabeth Kaitan · Cindy Beal · Don Scribner · Brinke Stevens
Plot Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most...
3.5
102 votes
3.5
102 votes
Don't Tell Your Wife about it
1937 · Movie · 61 min. · Japan
Direction Minoru Shibuya
Cast Tatsuo Saito · Fumiko Okamura · Takeshi Sakamoto · Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Plot Two men who feel oppressed by their wives, yet still manage to wind their way through brothels, end up at odds with each other after a mishap at the local...
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Rio Rita
1942 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Kathryn Grayson · John Carroll
Plot Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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Luxury Liner
1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Richard Whorf
Cast George Brent · Jane Powell · Lauritz Melchior · Frances Gifford
Plot What do you do when you are an effervescent teen called Polly and you have a dad who is the skipper of a luxury liner? You ask him to take...
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East of Broadway
1924 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Owen Moore · Marguerite De La Motte · Mary Carr · Eddie Gribbon
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Thrill of a Romance
1945 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Van Johnson · Esther Williams · Henry Travers · Frances Gifford
Plot Cynthia is swept off her feet and marries a rich and very successful business executive, but business affairs make him abandon her during their honeymoon. Cynthia is sad and while...
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Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Judy Garland · Van Heflin · Fay Bainter · Richard Carlson
Plot Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn't want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. But when Lily follows...
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Hired Wife
1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Virginia Bruce · Robert Benchley
Plot Cement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a...
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