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

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...

Not rated

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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,...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated