Screenplay: Sidney Kingsley

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


Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Plot On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Dead End

1937 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Joel McCrea · Humphrey Bogart · Wendy Barrie

Plot Dead End is the prototypical social-problem drama about a Manhattan slum in the 1930s. Lillian Hellman's engaging script, based on Sidney Kingsley's hit play, finds the neighborhood residents struggling to...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Homecoming

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Anne Baxter · John Hodiak

Plot Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On...

6.6

51 votes

6.6

51 votes

Men in White

1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Jean Hersholt · Elizabeth Allan

Plot A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating...

6.0

52 votes

6.0

52 votes

The Patriots (TV)

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Charlton Heston · Howard St. John · John Fraser · Laurinda Barrett

Plot Adaptation of Kingsley's Broadway play. During the post-Revolutionary War period of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson clash over the precarious economic and military positions of the new republic.

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