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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