Screenplay: Robert Ardrey
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert Ardrey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 13
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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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...
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