Screenplay: John O´Hara

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John O´Hara. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Ten North Frederick

1958 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Philip Dunne

Cast Gary Cooper · Diane Varsi · Suzy Parker · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot Ten North Frederick is a generally satisfying adaptation of one of John O'Hara's weaker novels. Gary Cooper plays wealthy businessman Joe Chapin, whose politically ambitious wife Edith (Geraldine Fitzgerald) hopes...

6.7

113 votes

6.7

113 votes

Moontide

1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Fritz Lang

Cast Jean Gabin · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Claude Rains

Plot After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge....

6.6

227 votes

6.6

227 votes

From the Terrace

1960 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ina Balin · Myrna Loy

Plot Based on the novel by John O'Hara, From the Terrace tells the tale of Alfred Eaton, a man whose marriage is crumbling from neglect as he climbs the ladder of...

6.3

775 votes

6.3

775 votes

Butterfield 8

1960 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Laurence Harvey · Eddie Fisher · Betty Field

Plot Beautiful Gloria Wandrous, a New York model/call-girl engages in an illicit affair with married socialite Weston Liggett. Their turbulent affair soon runs out of steam when our heroine, under the...

6.0

576 votes

6.0

576 votes

On Our Merry Way

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...

5.7

524 votes

5.7

524 votes

A Rage to Live

1965 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Walter Grauman

Cast Suzanne Pleshette · Bradford Dillman · Ben Gazzara · Peter Graves

Plot Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to...

5.7

64 votes

5.7

64 votes

Gibbsville

1976 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Marc Daniels · Harry Harris · Alf Kjellin

Cast Gig Young · John Savage · Peggy McCay · Biff McGuire

Plot Life in a small Eastern town during the '40s as seen through the eyes of a young newspaper reporter.

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I Was an Adventuress

1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Vera Zorina · Richard Greene · Erich von Stroheim · Peter Lorre

Plot Andre Desormeaux, master con artist and jewel thief, has been very successful with his partners, light-fingered Polo and beautiful lure "Countess" Tanya Vronsky. But Tanya falls in love with one...

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He Married His Wife

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Joel McCrea · Nancy Kelly · Roland Young · Mary Boland

Plot T.H."Randy" Randall and Valerie Randall are divorced but friendly, but not to the extent she doesn't have him jailed for non-payment of alimony. His attorney, Bill Carter, suggests that the...

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