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

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Brotherhood of Man (S)

1945 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

Direction Robert Cannon

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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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Not rated