Screenplay: Ring Lardner Jr.
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr.. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Laura
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson
Plot Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As...
8.1
17K votes
8.1
17K votes
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Steve McQueen · Edward G. Robinson · Karl Malden · Tuesday Weld
Plot A rising cardshark challenges a veteran player for the chance to be known as "The Man." Set in the swampy hedonism of New Orleans during the Great Depression, the card...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Woman of the Year
1942 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Fay Bainter · Reginald Owen
Plot Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But,...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
M.A.S.H.
1970 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Robert Altman
Cast Donald Sutherland · Elliott Gould · Tom Skerritt · Sally Kellerman
Plot November, 1951. The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest...crack surgeons but lousy soldiers. Joined by renowned chest-cutter Trapper...
7.0
12K votes
7.0
12K votes
Cloak and Dagger
1946 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Gary Cooper · Robert Alda · Lilli Palmer · Vladimir Sokoloff
Plot Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K 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
Nothing Sacred
1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly
Plot When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
The Cross of Lorraine
1943 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Jean-Pierre Aumont · Gene Kelly · Cedric Hardwicke · Richard Whorf
Plot With the onset of World War II, Frenchmen from all walks of life enlist in the army. The war is short-lived however as the Nazis quickly defeat them and Marshall...
6.5
67 votes
6.5
67 votes
Britannia Mews
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Dana Andrews · Maureen O'Hara · Sybil Thorndike · Fay Compton
Plot A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes
The Big Night
1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast John Drew Barrymore · Preston Foster · Joan Lorring · Howard St. John
Plot George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. That night, George's adored father Andy is savagely beaten by sportswriter Al Judge. Traumatized...
6.0
177 votes
6.0
177 votes
The Greatest
1977 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Tom Gries · Monte Hellman
Cast Muhammad Ali · Ernest Borgnine · Sally Bondi · Richard Gullage
Plot Boxer Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to...
5.6
115 votes
5.6
115 votes
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Bishop · Bernard Knowles · Ralph Smart · Robert Day
Cast Richard Greene · Victor Woolf · Archie Duncan · Alexander Gauge
Plot TV Series (1955-1960). 143 episodes.
5.3
38 votes
5.3
38 votes
Semi-Tough
1977 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Michael Ritchie
Cast Burt Reynolds · Kris Kristofferson · Jill Clayburgh · Robert Preston
Plot A comedy about two football players and their mutual girlfriend. Includes many spoofs and parodies about various self-help groups and personal self-improvement seminars that were wildly popular during the 1970's.
4.5
37 votes
4.5
37 votes
Virgin Island
1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pat Jackson
Cast John Cassavetes · Virginia Maskell · Sidney Poitier · Isabel Dean
Plot Evan and Tina want to live their lives differently. They go to live on an island. Tina's mother is concerned about her daughter's future. There is smuggling going on on...
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Meet Dr. Christian
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Bernard Vorhaus
Cast Jean Hersholt · Dorothy Lovett · Enid Bennett · Marcia Mae Jones
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Tomorrow, the World!
1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Fredric March · Betty Field · Agnes Moorehead · Joan Carroll
Plot German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
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Four Days Leave.
1950 · Movie · 79 min. · Switzerland
Direction Leopold Lindtberg
Cast Cornel Wilde · Josette Day · Simone Signoret · John Baragrey
Plot A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
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