Screenplay: Gore Vidal
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Gore Vidal. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 17
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Montgomery Clift · Katharine Hepburn · Albert Dekker
Plot In 1937 New Orleans, Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy. Lion's...
7.6
7K votes
7.6
7K votes
Is Paris Burning?
1966 · Movie · 175 min. · France
Direction René Clément
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel
Plot August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Catered Affair
1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Borgnine · Debbie Reynolds · Barry Fitzgerald
Plot At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception....
6.9
508 votes
6.9
508 votes
The Best Man
1964 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast Henry Fonda · Cliff Robertson · Edie Adams · Margaret Leighton
Plot Intellectual William Russell and down-to-earth Joe Cantwell are front runners for a party nomination that will almost certainly mean the Presidency. Cantwell is prepared to use anything to achieve his...
6.8
273 votes
6.8
273 votes
I Accuse!
1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction José Ferrer
Cast José Ferrer · Anton Walbrook · Viveca Lindfors · Leo Genn
Plot The famous "Dreyfus Case" where a Jewish captain in the French Army is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island. When the real traitor is...
6.4
30 votes
6.4
30 votes
The Left Handed Gun
1958 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Penn
Cast Paul Newman · John Dehner · James Best · Hurd Hatfield
Plot William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as 'The Englishman,' and is befriended by the peaceful, religious man. But when a crooked sheriff...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
The Scapegoat
1959 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast Alec Guinness · Bette Davis · Nicole Maurey · Irene Worth
Plot A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
6.1
177 votes
6.1
177 votes
The Palermo Connection (To Forget Palermo)
1990 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast James Belushi · Mimi Rogers · Joss Ackland · Philippe Noiret
Plot Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily...
5.4
24 votes
5.4
24 votes
Caligula
1979 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy
Direction Tinto Brass
Cast Peter O'Toole · Malcolm McDowell · Helen Mirren · John Gielgud
Plot "Caligula" is Bob Guccione's star-studded pornographic look into the world of Ancient Rome. It depicts the lusty and demented Caesar Caligula (12 AC-41 AC) during his short-lived stint as Emperor...
5.4
6K votes
5.4
6K votes
Visit to a Small Planet
1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jerry Lewis · Joan Blackman · Earl Holliman · Fred Clark
Plot Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who...
5.4
114 votes
5.4
114 votes
Myra Breckinridge
1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Michael Sarne
Cast Raquel Welch · John Huston · John Carradine · Mae West
Plot Myron Breckinridge goes to Europe to have a sex change, and comes back to America as the sexy, man-hating Myra. She enrolls at the acting school of her uncle, conservative...
5.1
152 votes
5.1
152 votes
Suspense (TV Series)
1949 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens · Robert Mulligan · John Peyser · Byron Paul
Cast Rex Marshall · Robert Emhardt · Robert H. Harris · John Baragrey
Plot Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from...
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Lincoln (TV Miniseries)
1988 · Movie · 188 min. · United States
Direction Lamont Johnson
Cast Sam Waterston · Mary Tyler Moore · Richard Mulligan · Deborah Adair
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Sunday Showcase (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · John Frankenheimer · Alex March · Delbert Mann
Cast Robert Emhardt · Milton Berle · Jimmy Durante · Larry Blyden
Plot TV Series (1959-1960). A show featuring various specials. Some specials were comedy and others were serious drama by famous authors.
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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast James Coburn · Lynn Redgrave · Robert Hooks · Perry Hayes
Plot After winning a game show contest, a newlywed couple travels to New Orleans where the husband seeks to reclaim his ancestral plantation mansion from his biracial stepbrother.
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Dress Gray (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Movie · 192 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Eddie Albert · Alec Baldwin · Lloyd Bridges · Patrick Cassidy
Plot When a first-classman's insignia is found on the riverbank near the drowned body of plebe David Hand, the specter of murder casts a shadow of scandal across the U.S. Grant...
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Billy the Kid (TV)
1989 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction William A. Graham
Cast Val Kilmer · Rene Auberjonois · Andrew Bicknell · Wilford Brimley
Plot Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
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