Screenplay: Robert Ardrey

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


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Ingrid Thulin · Charles Boyer · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear that he has given up...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Madame Bovary

1949 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Jennifer Jones · Louis Jourdan · Van Heflin · James Mason

Synopsis French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Three Musketeers

1948 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Gene Kelly · Lana Turner · June Allyson · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Gene Kelly heads up George Sidney's star-studded version of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale of adventure and espionage. In this wry, tongue-in-cheek retelling, the country swain D'Artagnan (Kelly) survives his...

7.0

13K votes

7.0

13K votes

Khartoum

1966 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden · Eliot Elisofon

Cast Charlton Heston · Laurence Olivier · Richard Johnson · Ralph Richardson

Synopsis After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

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Song of Love

1947 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Henreid · Robert Walker · Henry Daniell

Synopsis Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

6.5

212 votes

6.5

212 votes

The Secret Garden

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Margaret O'Brien · Herbert Marshall · Dean Stockwell · Gladys Cooper

Synopsis When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100...

6.4

56 votes

6.4

56 votes

Quentin Durward

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Kay Kendall · Robert Morley · George Cole

Synopsis In 1465 Quentin Durwood travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she...

6.3

527 votes

6.3

527 votes

The Wonderful Country

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Robert Mitchum · Julie London · Gary Merrill · Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman...

6.2

522 votes

6.2

522 votes

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They Knew What They Wanted

1940 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · William Gargan · Harry Carey

Synopsis Tony (Charles Laughton), a successful but illiterate middle-aged grape farmer, sends the photograph of his handsome young foreman, Joe (William Gargan), instead of his own, hoping to woo and marry...

5.3

74 votes

5.3

74 votes

A Lady Takes a Chance

1943 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Jean Arthur · John Wayne · Charles Winninger · Phil Silvers

Synopsis A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back,...

4.8

27 votes

4.8

27 votes

The Green Years

1946 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Tom Drake · Beverly Tyler · Charles Coburn · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.

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Thunder Rock

1942 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Michael Redgrave · Barbara Mullen · James Mason · Lilli Palmer

Synopsis David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash is paychecks and has no contact other than the...

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Not rated

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The Power and the Prize

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Robert Taylor · Elisabeth Müller · Burl Ives · Charles Coburn

Synopsis Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it does today. Robert Taylor stars...

Not rated

Not rated