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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