Screenplay: Frank Gruber
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Gruber. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 34
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Peter Lorre
Synopsis A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in...
6.9
370 votes
6.9
370 votes
Backlash
1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Richard Widmark · Donna Reed · William Campbell · John McIntire
Synopsis Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly...
6.4
609 votes
6.4
609 votes
Northern Pursuit
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Errol Flynn · Julie Bishop · Helmut Dantine · John Ridgely
Synopsis Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring,...
6.4
258 votes
6.4
258 votes
Terror by Night
1946 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Alan Mowbray · Renee Godfrey
Synopsis Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing...
6.1
745 votes
6.1
745 votes
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Fighting Man of the Plains
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Randolph Scott · Bill Williams · Victor Jory · Dale Robertson
Synopsis Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse...
6.0
48 votes
6.0
48 votes
Johnny Angel
1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast George Raft · Claire Trevor · Signe Hasso · Lowell Gilmore
Synopsis Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in...
6.0
71 votes
6.0
71 votes
The Big Land
1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Alan Ladd · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Anthony Caruso
5.6
153 votes
5.6
153 votes
Arizona Raiders
1965 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction William Witney
Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Dante · Ben Cooper · Buster Crabbe
Synopsis Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant...
5.6
94 votes
5.6
94 votes
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Warpath
1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Dean Jagger · Forrest Tucker · Harry Carey Jr.
Synopsis Newly arrived in town, John Vickers confronts Herb Woodson on the street and challenges him to draw his gun. When Woodson asks John why he...
5.5
61 votes
5.5
61 votes
Man in the Vault
1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast Berry Kroeger · William Campbell · Paul Fix · Mike Mazurki
Synopsis There's $200,000 in a Los Angeles safety-deposit box that mobster Willis Trent would like to have, so he gets two-timing, double-dealing Flo Randall to get...
5.4
38 votes
5.4
38 votes
Tension at Table Rock
1956 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Charles Marquis Warren
Cast Richard Egan · Dorothy Malone · Cameron Mitchell · Angie Dickinson
Synopsis When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place. A reluctant gunslinger tires of having to defend himself at every...
5.3
70 votes
5.3
70 votes
Denver and Rio Grande
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Sterling Hayden · Edmond O'Brien · Dean Jagger · Laura Elliott
Synopsis Edmond O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less...
5.3
143 votes
5.3
143 votes
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The Cariboo Trail
1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Randolph Scott · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Victor Jory · Bill Williams
Synopsis While the gold fever is sweeping the Cariboo Region, extending from Kamloops to Prince George, of British Columbia in western Canada, a man heads up...
5.2
129 votes
5.2
129 votes
Silver City
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Yvonne De Carlo · Richard Arlen · Barry Fitzgerald
5.2
60 votes
5.2
60 votes
Pony Express
1953 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Hopper
Cast Charlton Heston · Rhonda Fleming · Jan Sterling · Forrest Tucker
Synopsis Western legends Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok battle stagecoach station owners and Cheyenne Indians to establish the shortlived but glamorous Pony Express mail...
5.1
371 votes
5.1
371 votes
Flaming Feather
1952 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Sterling Hayden · Forrest Tucker · Arleen Whelan · Barbara Rush
Synopsis A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher...
5.0
54 votes
5.0
54 votes
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Gunfight at Black Horse Canyon (TV)
1961 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction R.G. Springsteen
Cast Dale Robertson · Jack Ging · William Demarest · George Kennedy
Synopsis Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison.
4.9
31 votes
4.9
31 votes
Rage At Dawn
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Randolph Scott · Forrest Tucker · Mala Powers · J. Carrol Naish
Synopsis Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brothers gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven, paying off three crooked town officials. Sent in to...
4.9
196 votes
4.9
196 votes
The Great Missouri Raid
1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Wendell Corey · Macdonald Carey · Ellen Drew · Ward Bond
4.9
51 votes
4.9
51 votes
Town Tamer
1965 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Dana Andrews · Terry Moore · Pat O'Brien · Lon Chaney Jr.
Synopsis A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as...
4.4
115 votes
4.4
115 votes
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