Screenplay: Philip Dunne
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Philip Dunne. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
How Green Was My Valley
1941 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp
Plot This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided...
8.2
11K votes
8.2
11K votes
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best
Plot At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the...
7.7
6K votes
7.7
6K votes
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 · Movie · 139 min. · United States
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Charlton Heston · Rex Harrison · Diane Cilento · Harry Andrews
Plot Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Anne of the Indies
1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Jean Peters · Louis Jourdan · Debra Paget · Herbert Marshall
Plot The film begins with the sea battle where Anne's (Jean Peters) pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to Europe from the South America. As a...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Late George Apley
1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Ronald Colman · Peggy Cummins · Vanessa Brown · Richard Haydn
7.0
659 votes
7.0
659 votes
Johnny Apollo
1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Tyrone Power · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Lloyd Nolan
Plot The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
6.8
221 votes
6.8
221 votes
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Robert Donat · Elissa Landi · Louis Calhern · Sidney Blackmer
Plot Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiance...
6.7
394 votes
6.7
394 votes
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · George Sanders · Frances Farmer
Plot Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.
6.7
379 votes
6.7
379 votes
The Luck of the Irish
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Tyrone Power · Anne Baxter · Cecil Kellaway · Lee J. Cobb
Plot Steven Fitzgerald, a newpaper reporter from New York, meets a leprechaun and a beautiful young woman while traveling in Ireland. When he returns to his fiance and her wealthy father's...
6.7
70 votes
6.7
70 votes
Ten North Frederick
1958 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Philip Dunne
Cast Gary Cooper · Diane Varsi · Suzy Parker · Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot Ten North Frederick is a generally satisfying adaptation of one of John O'Hara's weaker novels. Gary Cooper plays wealthy businessman Joe Chapin, whose politically ambitious wife Edith (Geraldine Fitzgerald) hopes...
6.7
113 votes
6.7
113 votes
Pinky
1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Jeanne Crain · Ethel Barrymore · Ethel Waters · William Lundigan
Plot Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing"...
6.7
362 votes
6.7
362 votes
Forever Amber
1947 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Linda Darnell · Cornel Wilde · Richard Greene · George Sanders
Plot Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King...
6.6
374 votes
6.6
374 votes
Escape
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland
Plot Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant...
6.5
104 votes
6.5
104 votes
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Henry King · Otto Brower
Cast Spencer Tracy · Nancy Kelly · Richard Greene · Walter Brennan
Plot An American newspaper searches Africa for a lost explorer.
6.5
156 votes
6.5
156 votes
The Egyptian
1954 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Edmund Purdom · Gene Tierney
Plot In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
The Robe
1953 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Richard Burton · Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Michael Rennie
Plot Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the...
6.3
3K votes
6.3
3K votes
Suez
1938 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg
Plot De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining...
6.3
225 votes
6.3
225 votes
Way of a Gaucho
1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Rory Calhoun · Gene Tierney · Richard Boone · Hugh Marlowe
Plot Set in the Argentina of about 1875 in which a customary punishment for killing was a sentence to army service. A young gaucho deserts his army sentence and becomes a...
6.3
325 votes
6.3
325 votes
The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Randolph Scott · Binnie Barnes · Henry Wilcoxon · Bruce Cabot
6.2
134 votes
6.2
134 votes
The Rains Came
1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Myrna Loy · Tyrone Power · George Brent · Brenda Joyce
Plot The year is 1938 in British India, and our story takes place in the picturesque city of Ranchipur, presently sweltering under the heat, with locals praying for much needed rains...
6.2
269 votes
6.2
269 votes