Screenplay: Dean Reisner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dean Reisner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Dirty Harry
1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Clint Eastwood · Harry Guardino · Reni Santoni · John Vernon
Plot Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the...
7.3
58K votes
7.3
58K votes
Charley Varrick
1973 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Walter Matthau · Joe Don Baker · Felicia Farr · Andrew Robinson
Plot In this compact, fast-paced action thriller, a bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled New Mexico bank. As a result, they must...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Rich Man, Poor Man (TV Miniseries)
1976 · Series · 720 min. · United States
Direction David Greene · Boris Sagal
Cast Peter Strauss · Nick Nolte · Susan Blakely · Ed Asner
Plot Adapted from the mammoth novel by Irwin Shaw, the miniseries covers the years from WWII to the 1960s, detailing the vacillating fortunes of the immigrant Jordache brothers. "Rich Man" Rudy...
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
Play Misty for Me
1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Jessica Walter · Donna Mills · John Larch
Plot This was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut. Dave Garver (Eastwood) is a Carmel, California, disc jockey who gets a call every night from a mysterious woman listener who requests that he...
6.5
5K votes
6.5
5K votes
The Enforcer
1976 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction James Fargo · Robert Daley
Cast Clint Eastwood · Tyne Daly · Harry Guardino · Bradford Dillman
Plot A Dirty Harry movie where the major of San Francisco is kidnapped and Eastwood and Daly try to rescue him.
6.2
7K votes
6.2
7K votes
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Ann Blyth · Paul Newman · Richard Carlson · Gene Evans
Plot The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on...
6.1
159 votes
6.1
159 votes
Sudden Impact
1983 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sondra Locke · Pat Hingle · Bradford Dillman
Plot Clint Eastwood returns to his popular Dirty Harry character and directs himself in the role for the first time. A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a...
6.1
6K votes
6.1
6K votes
Cheyenne (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Richard L. Bare · Leslie H. Martinson · Robert Sparr · Lee Sholem
Cast Clint Walker · Clyde Howdy · Fred Carson · Chuck Hicks
6.0
39 votes
6.0
39 votes
Coogan's Bluff
1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee J. Cobb · Susan Clark · Tisha Sterling
Plot The film opens with Arizona deputy Walt Coogan (Eastwood) on the trail of an Indian fugitive; on catching him, he handcuffs him outside the house of a married woman with...
5.9
3K votes
5.9
3K votes
The Fighting 69th
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · George Brent · Jeffrey Lynn
Plot "The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out...
5.6
75 votes
5.6
75 votes
Bronco (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dein · Lee Sholem · Robert Sparr · Alan Crosland Jr.
Cast Ty Hardin · Morris Ankrum · Robert Colbert · Mike Road
5.6
42 votes
5.6
42 votes
Stranger on the Run (TV)
1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Henry Fonda · Anne Baxter · Michael Parks · Dan Duryea
Plot A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert, then he...
5.5
128 votes
5.5
128 votes
Fatal Beauty
1987 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Tom Holland
Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Sam Elliott · Rubén Blades · Harris Yulin
4.4
314 votes
4.4
314 votes
Sugarfoot (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Irving J. Moore · Leslie Goodwins · Joseph Lejtes · Franklin Adreon
Cast Will Hutchins · Jack Elam · Charles Fredericks · Terry Frost
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The Road West (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Vincent McEveety · Paul Stanley · Paul Henreid · Charles S. Dubin
Cast Barry Sullivan · Andrew Prine · Brenda Scott · Kelly Corcoran
Plot TV Series (1966-1967). 29 Episodes. Ben Pride leads wife Elizabeth and children into 1860's Kansas with the difficult task of homesteading. The family faces various adversities as the try to...
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Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1976 · Series · 390 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal
Cast Kirk Douglas · Christopher Plummer · Anne Baxter · Ralph Bellamy
Plot This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir...
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Lawman (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Robert Sparr · Stuart Heisler · Richard C. Sarafian · Robert B. Sinclair
Cast John Russell · Peter Brown · Peggie Castle · Dan Sheridan
Plot Lawman is the story of Marshal Dan Troop of Laramie, Wyoming and his deputy Johnny McKay an orphan Troop took under his wing.
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The Intruders (TV)
1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction William A. Graham
Cast Don Murray · Anne Francis · Edmond O'Brien · John Saxon
Plot The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
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The Man from Galveston
1963 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction William Conrad
Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Preston Foster · James Coburn · Joanna Moore
Plot Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able...
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The Thin Man (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Oscar Rudolph · Don Weis · Andrew McCullough · William Asher
Cast Peter Lawford · Phyllis Kirk · Jack Albertson · Patricia Donahue
Plot Nick Charles, an ex-private detective, marries Nora and lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Nick's former underworld friends still hang around and get him involved...
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