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

Synopsis 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...

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

Synopsis 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...

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

Synopsis 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...

6.7

306 votes

6.7

306 votes

6.5

204 votes

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Brother Orchid

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Synopsis 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....

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

Synopsis 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...

6.3

649 votes

6.3

649 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

Synopsis 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...

5.9

10K votes

5.9

10K votes

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Her Highness and the Bellboy

1945 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Walker · June Allyson · Carl Esmond

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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,...

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

Synopsis 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...

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

Synopsis 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

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Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity

1987 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ken Dixon

Cast Elizabeth Kaitan · Cindy Beal · Don Scribner · Brinke Stevens

Synopsis 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...

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

Synopsis 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...

Not rated

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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

Synopsis Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Not rated

Not rated

Luxury Liner

1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Richard Whorf

Cast George Brent · Jane Powell · Lauritz Melchior · Frances Gifford

Synopsis 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?...

Not rated

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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

Synopsis 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....

Not rated

Not rated

Presenting Lily Mars

1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Judy Garland · Van Heflin · Fay Bainter · Richard Carlson

Synopsis 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...

Not rated

Not rated

Hired Wife

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Rosalind Russell · Brian Aherne · Virginia Bruce · Robert Benchley

Synopsis 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...

Not rated

Not rated

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