Screenplay: Nedrick Young
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Nedrick Young. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York
Plot Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw
Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Decoy
1946 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Jack Bernhard
Cast Jean Gillie · Edward Norris · Robert Armstrong · Herbert Rudley
Plot A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
6.9
127 votes
6.9
127 votes
Inherit the Wind (TV)
1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Petrie
Cast Jack Lemmon · George C. Scott · David Wells · Beau Bridges
Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
6.7
129 votes
6.7
129 votes
Passage West
1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast John Payne · Dennis O'Keefe · Arleen Whelan · Frank Faylen
Plot In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns....
5.3
85 votes
5.3
85 votes
Shadow on the Land (TV)
1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Richard C. Sarafian
Cast Marc Strange · Jackie Cooper · John Forsythe · Gene Hackman
Plot Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
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The Defiant Ones
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Robert Urich · Carl Weathers · Ed Lauter · Barry Corbin
Plot Carl Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson share some things: They are both in jail and they both hate each other. After a fist fight the are going to be put into...
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