Screenplay: William S. Roberts
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by William S. Roberts. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Yul Brynner · Steve McQueen · Charles Bronson · Eli Wallach
Plot John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of...
7.4
26K votes
7.4
26K votes
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin · George Pal
Cast Laurence Harvey · Karlheinz Böhm · Claire Bloom · Walter Slezak
Plot Big-budget fantasy based very loosely on the Grimm Brothers' lives and three of their stories: "The Dancing Princesses," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone." Good, fun Puppetoon...
6.6
583 votes
6.6
583 votes
The Bridge at Remagen
1969 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction John Guillermin
Cast George Segal · Robert Vaughn · Ben Gazzara · Bradford Dillman
Plot As the Allied armies close in, the Nazis decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
The Devil's Brigade
1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast William Holden · Cliff Robertson · Vince Edwards · Dana Andrews
6.2
972 votes
6.2
972 votes
Red Sun
1971 · Movie · 109 min. · France
Direction Terence Young
Cast Charles Bronson · Toshirô Mifune · Ursula Andress · Alain Delon
Plot The Japanese ambassador is travelling through the Wild West by train, when gangsters hold up the train, to rob a gold shipment. They also carry an ancient Japanese sword the...
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
Posse
1975 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Kirk Douglas
Cast Kirk Douglas · Bruce Dern · Bo Hopkins · James Stacy
Plot A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. He succeeds, but instead of cheering him, the public turns against him.
5.5
424 votes
5.5
424 votes
The Private War of Major Benson
1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Charlton Heston · Julie Adams · William Demarest · Tim Hovey
Plot A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC...
5.3
130 votes
5.3
130 votes
The Mating Game
1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Debbie Reynolds · Tony Randall · Paul Douglas · Fred Clark
Plot Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate...
5.3
42 votes
5.3
42 votes
Easy to Love
1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Charles Walters
Cast Esther Williams · Tony Martin · Van Johnson · Carroll Baker
Plot Set against the background of Florida's Cypress Gardens, and featuring many stretches of water carnival-ballet numbers, the slight story line finds swimming star Julie Hallerton (Esther Williams) in love with...
5.3
71 votes
5.3
71 votes
One More Train to Rob
1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast George Peppard · Diana Muldaur · John Vernon · France Nuyen
Plot In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that he could marry the robber's love....
5.2
215 votes
5.2
215 votes
The Last American Hero
1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Lamont Johnson
Cast Jeff Bridges · Valerie Perrine · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Ned Beatty
Plot It took him 20 years to find out who he was and 2 laps to let the world know.
5.1
53 votes
5.1
53 votes
10 to Midnight
1983 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Charles Bronson · Lisa Eilbacher · Andrew Stevens · Gene Davis
Plot The clock is ticking and time is running out as ace detectives Leo Kessler and Paul McAnn track down a psychotic killer who is brutally slaying young women. Caught in...
5.1
875 votes
5.1
875 votes
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
1981 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction William A. Fraker
Cast Klinton Spilsbury · Michael Horse · Christopher Lloyd · Matt Clark
Plot The sole surviving Texas Ranger of an ambush arranged by Butch Cavandish returns to fight back as a masked hero.
4.9
182 votes
4.9
182 votes
SST: Death Flight (TV)
1977 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Barbara Anderson · Bert Convy · Peter Graves · Lorne Greene
Plot On its maiden flight, America's first supersonic transport runs into deadly danger high in the sky-and may never get to land. In true Airport fashion, the plane is populated with...
4.4
247 votes
4.4
247 votes
You for Me
1952 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis
Cast Peter Lawford · Jane Greer · Gig Young · Rita Corday
Plot Katie McDermad, who comes from a working class household, is a dedicated surgical nurse, who loves her profession but not the low pay. Her emotions often get the better of...
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Fast Company
1953 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Howard Keel · Polly Bergen · Marjorie Main · Nina Foch
Plot The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ,...
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Her Twelve Men
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Greer Garson · Robert Ryan · Barry Sullivan · Richard Haydn
Plot Jan Stewart, a new teacher at The Oaks, a boys' boarding school, becomes instructor and mother-figure to a class of twelve. She must overcome the disapproval of Joe Hargrave, head...
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The Donna Reed Show (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction William S. Roberts · Oscar Rudolph · Andrew McCullough · Jeffrey Hayden
Cast Donna Reed · Paul Petersen · Carl Betz · Shelley Fabares
Plot Another popular 1950's sitcom about a close family. The Stones consist of loving homemaker Donna, her pediatrician husband Alex, and their children Mary and Jeff. Many situations arise like when...
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Come Fly with Me
1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Dolores Hart · Hugh O´Brian · Karlheinz Böhm · Pamela Tiffin
Plot Three air-hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
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