Screenplay: Edith Sommer

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


This Property is Condemned

1966 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Natalie Wood · Kate Reid · Charles Bronson

Plot In the Depression-era drama, Owen Legate (Redford) is a railroad official who comes to backwater Dodson, Mississippi, with a pocketful of pink slips for the yard employees. Wood portrays the...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Born to Be Bad

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Joan Fontaine · Robert Ryan · Zachary Scott · Joan Leslie

Plot Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) fools everyone with her sweet exterior including her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) and Donna's wealthy fiancée Curtis Carey (Zachary Scott). The only one who sees...

6.3

668 votes

6.3

668 votes

The Best of Everything

1959 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Hope Lange · Stephen Boyd · Suzy Parker · Martha Hyer

Plot Amanda Farrow is a waspish, hard edged editor in a paperback publishing house. Jaded and embittered, she is involved in a disappointing affair with a married man and tends to...

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

Jessica

1962 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Jean Negulesco · Oreste Palella

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Angie Dickinson · Noël-Noël · Gabriele Ferzetti

Plot Based on Flora Sandstrom's novel The Midwife of Pont Clery, this lightweight sexual farce involves the effect that Jessica (Angie Dickinson), a voluptuous midwife, has on the small Sicilian town...

5.4

54 votes

5.4

54 votes

The Pleasure Seekers

1964 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Ann-Margret · Anthony Franciosa · Carol Lynley · Gardner McKay

Plot Three American lovelies room together in Madrid and all manage to get themselves into seemingly unhappy relationships with fellows. 20th Century-Fox gussied up its 1954 hit "Three Coins In The...

4.8

69 votes

4.8

69 votes

Perfect Strangers

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · Thelma Ritter · Margalo Gillmore

Plot Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, serving on a sequestered jury during a murder trial, fall in love. She is divorced, he is married.

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Blue Denim

1959 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Philip Dunne

Cast Carol Lynley · Brandon De Wilde · Macdonald Carey · Marsha Hunt

Plot Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard are fairly typical 1950s teenagers. Their lives are turned upside down however when Janet becomes pregnant. Desperate to tell his parents of the predicament they...

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Not rated

Teenage Rebel

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Ginger Rogers · Michael Rennie · Mildred Natwick · Rusty Swope

Plot A sometimes sappy, yet effective melodrama about a woman who tries to make amends with her teenage daughter that she gave up at the end of an unhappy marriage. When...

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Not rated