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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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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