Screenplay: Joan Harrison

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


Rebecca

1940 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Laurence Olivier · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders · Judith Anderson

Plot A naïve and somewhat simple young woman (Joan Fontaine), is working as a hired travel companion for decadent, rich ladies. On one of her assignments she ends up in Monte...

8.2

36K votes

8.2

36K votes

Suspicion

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Joan Fontaine · Cedric Hardwicke · Nigel Bruce

Plot Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

Foreign Correspondent

1940 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Joel McCrea · Laraine Day · Herbert Marshall · George Sanders

Plot Johnny Jones, an insubordinate city desk reporter, is sent to London as a foreign correspondent. There he interviews Van Meer, leader of a peace movement endorsed by Universal Peace Party...

Max

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Saboteur

1942 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Priscilla Lane · Robert Cummings · Otto Kruger · Alan Baxter

Plot A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Jamaica Inn

1939 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Horace Hodges · Hay Petrie

Plot A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

Dark Waters

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Merle Oberon · Franchot Tone · Thomas Mitchell · Fay Bainter

Plot Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney. Dr. George...

6.3

193 votes

6.3

193 votes

Nocturne

1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · Lynn Bari · Virginia Huston · Joseph Pevney

Plot Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps...

6.1

137 votes

6.1

137 votes