Screenplay: Edmund Beloin

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


Tales of Manhattan

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

7.0

536 votes

7.0

536 votes

Donovan's Reef

1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Lee Marvin · Elizabeth Allen · Jack Warden

Synopsis A war veteran in the South Seas tries to salvage a buddy''s reputation when the man''s daughter comes calling.

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

Artists & Models

1937 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Jack Benny · Ida Lupino · Richard Arlen · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an advertising man trying to hold on to his biggest client, a silver company run by Alan Townshend...

6.1

65 votes

6.1

65 votes

The Harvey Girls

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Judy Garland · John Hodiak · Ray Bolger · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis A frothy musical about the romantic misadventures of the Harvey girls, waitresses employed by the Old West Harvey Restaurant chain. Their ladylike behavior had a civilizing effect on their wild frontier patrons. Despite the rather thin story, the great cast...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

Family Affair (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Don Fedderson · Edmund L. Hartmann · James Sheldon · Charles Barton

Cast Brian Keith · Kathy Garver · Anissa Jones · Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis Bill Davis is a single bachelor living in Manhattan with his butler Giles French. He is enjoying his life of freedom until his late brother's three children show up (twins Buffy and Jody, age 6, and Cissy, age 15). Soon...

5.7

36 votes

5.7

36 votes

Lady on a Train

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Charles David

Cast Deanna Durbin · Ralph Bellamy · David Bruce · George Coulouris

Synopsis While waiting at a train station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder from a nearby building. When she brings the police to the scene of the crime, they think she's crazy since there's no body. She then enlists a popular mystery...

5.7

83 votes

5.7

83 votes

The Sad Sack

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Jerry Lewis · David Wayne · Phyllis Kirk · Peter Lorre

Synopsis In his second solo starring film after breaking with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis plays cartoonist George Baker's classic GI misfit The Sad Sack. Lewis' constitutional inability to do anything right brings him under the scrutiny of gorgeous Army psychiatrist Phyllis...

5.5

112 votes

5.5

112 votes

All in a Night's Work

1961 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Anthony

Cast Dean Martin · Shirley MacLaine · Cliff Robertson · Norma Crane

Synopsis The founder of a one-man publishing empire is found dead with a smile on his face. His nephew inherits the business and finds himself caught in a series of big and small business misunderstandings. He's also falling in love with...

5.5

51 votes

5.5

51 votes

My Favorite Brunette

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Peter Lorre · Lon Chaney Jr.

Synopsis A private eye asks photographer Ronnie Jackson to keep an eye on his office while he's away. Ronnie agrees, but gets more than he bargained for when he meets beautiful client Carlotta Montay. Her uncle is missing, and while trying...

5.4

262 votes

5.4

262 votes

Road to Rio

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Bing Crosby · Dorothy Lamour · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia,...

5.4

92 votes

5.4

92 votes

Visit to a Small Planet

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jerry Lewis · Joan Blackman · Earl Holliman · Fred Clark

Synopsis Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens. Wanting to study humans...

5.4

114 votes

5.4

114 votes

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Bing Crosby · Rhonda Fleming · Cedric Hardwicke · William Bendix

Synopsis A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in...

5.2

203 votes

5.2

203 votes

G.I. Blues

1960 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Elvis Presley · Juliet Prowse · Robert Ivers · James Douglas

Synopsis Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army....but dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa places a bet with his friend Dynamite...

5.0

127 votes

5.0

127 votes

Don't Give Up the Ship

1959 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jerry Lewis · Dina Merrill · Diana Spencer · Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one knows where the ship is. He...

4.8

28 votes

4.8

28 votes

The Smith Family (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Henry Fonda · Janet Blair · Darleen Carr · John Carter

Synopsis Chad Smith is the protagonist in this light-hearted, family-oriented show about a police detective, his wife and their three children.

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Buck Benny Rides Again

1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Jack Benny · Ellen Drew · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Andy Devine

Synopsis Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's...

Not rated

Not rated

Mona McCluskey (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Richard Whorf · Stanley Z. Cherry · Don McGuire

Cast Juliet Prowse · Denny Miller · Bartlett Robinson · Herbert Rudley

Synopsis A beautiful Hollywood actress who is the star of the show, marries an Air Force sergeant, who insists that they live on the little amount of money he makes, and not the thousands of dollars a week that she makes.

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Not rated

The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova · Ralph Levy · Norman Abbott · Seymour Berns

Cast Jack Benny · Mary Livingstone · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Phil Harris

Synopsis The Jack Benny Program evolved from a variety show blending sketch comedy and musical interludes into the situation comedy form we know even now, crafting particular situations and scenarios from the fictionalization of Benny the radio star. Anything, from hosting...

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Not rated

Paris Holiday

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Bob Hope · Fernandel · Anita Ekberg · Martha Hyer

Synopsis American comedian Bob Hunter, on a luxury liner to France with French counterpart Fernandel, takes an interest in blonde diplomat Ann McCall while pursued by an even shapelier blonde, the mysterious Zara, who seems to be after something in Bob's...

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Not rated