Screenplay: Alvah Bessie
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Alvah Bessie. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Objective Burma!
1945 · Movie · 142 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Errol Flynn · James Brown · William Prince · George Tobias
Plot A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they...
7.2
9K votes
7.2
9K votes
Ruthless
1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Zachary Scott · Louis Hayward · Diana Lynn · Sydney Greenstreet
Plot Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the...
6.5
238 votes
6.5
238 votes
Northern Pursuit
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Errol Flynn · Julie Bishop · Helmut Dantine · John Ridgely
Plot Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse...
6.4
258 votes
6.4
258 votes
Passage West
1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast John Payne · Dennis O'Keefe · Arleen Whelan · Frank Faylen
Plot In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns....
5.3
85 votes
5.3
85 votes
Hotel Berlin
1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Faye Emerson · Helmut Dantine · Raymond Massey · Andrea King
Plot Near the end of WW II, a member of the German underground (Martin Richter) escapes from the Gestapo and takes shelter at Hotel Berlin, where he meets Lisa Dorn, a...
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Smart Woman
1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Edward A. Blatt
Cast Brian Aherne · Constance Bennett · Barry Sullivan · Michael O'Shea
Plot The last credited screenplay by Alvah Bessie, using his own name, as he was soon to become one of the Hollywood Ten. This one is a 1940s gender-clasher involving a...
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The Sex Symbol
1974 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Connie Stevens · Shelley Winters · Jack Carter · William Castle
Plot A thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributes to her deteriorating career.
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The Very Thought of You
1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast Dennis Morgan · Eleanor Parker · Dane Clark · Faye Emerson
Plot Heartfelt romance of soldier Morgan and sweet young Parker falling in love and marrying, despite interference from the more neurotic members of her dysfunctional family.
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