Screenplay: Gore Vidal

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Gore Vidal. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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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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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