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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Power, Passion & Murder (Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson) (TV)
1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Paul Bogart
Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Hector Elizondo · George Murdock · Holland Taylor
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