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

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

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