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

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

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

4.4

314 votes

4.4

314 votes

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated