Screenplay: Bernard Gordon

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


Crime Wave

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gene Nelson · Phyllis Kirk · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis Three San Quentin escapees (Penny, Hastings and Morgan) kill a cop in a gas-station holdup. Wounded, Morgan flees through black-shadowed streets to the handiest refuge: with former cellmate Steve Lacey, who's paroled, with a new life and lovely wife, and...

7.0

658 votes

7.0

658 votes

55 Days at Peking

1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · David Niven · Robert Helpmann

Synopsis 55 Days at Peking (1963) is a historical epic set during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The film follows the harrowing siege of foreign legations in Peking (now Beijing) by the Boxers, a Chinese nationalist movement. As the international community,...

7.0

15K votes

7.0

15K votes

The Case Against Brooklyn

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Darren McGavin · Margaret Hayes · Warren Stevens · Peggy McCay

Synopsis When a reporter claims that New York police are on the take letting the mob run its horse parlors at will, a shocked District Attorney Michael Norris decide to do something about it. Not knowing who can be trusted on...

6.7

24 votes

6.7

24 votes

The Lawless Breed

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire · Dennis Weaver

Synopsis Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns, and his love for his step-sister replaced on her death...

6.6

644 votes

6.6

644 votes

Chicago Confidential

1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Brian Keith · Beverly Garland · Dick Foran · Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis An honest union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. Thus off the hook, the crime syndicate actually responsible for the crime is free to continue its activities. However, State's Attorney Jim Fremont begins to...

6.3

87 votes

6.3

87 votes

The Thin Red Line

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Keir Dullea · Jack Warden · James Philbrook · Bob Kanter

Synopsis Dark tale of one man's determination to survive his tour of duty. Separated from his new wife after only eight days of marriage, private Doll suddenly decides that he will no longer blindly follow the orders of his superiors, following...

6.3

214 votes

6.3

214 votes

Custer of the West

1966 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

5.8

401 votes

5.8

401 votes

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Fred F. Sears

Cast Hugh Marlowe · Joan Taylor · Donald Curtis · Morris Ankrum

Synopsis Space scientist Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) are working on a secret missile project, but every time their rockets are launched, they are intercepted and destroyed by the more advanced technology of mysterious flying...

5.8

800 votes

5.8

800 votes

The Day of the Triffids

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve Sekely · Freddie Francis

Cast Howard Keel · Janette Scott · Nicole Maurey · Kieron Moore

Synopsis A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited...

5.5

496 votes

5.5

496 votes

Krakatoa, East of Java

1969 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Maximilian Schell · Diane Baker · Brian Keith · Barbara Werle

Synopsis The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to her late husband, a shipwreck concealing...

5.4

465 votes

5.4

465 votes

Zombies of Mora Tau

1957 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast Gregg Palmer · Allison Hayes · Autumn Russell · Joel Ashley

Synopsis Zombie-like, dead crewmen of a sunken ship have always prevented salvagers from claiming the wreck's legendary box of diamonds, but will a new group of treasure hunters succeed?

5.0

41 votes

5.0

41 votes

Surfacing

1981 · Movie · 89 min. · Canada

Direction Claude Jutra

Cast Joseph Bottoms · Kathleen Beller · R.H. Thomson · Margaret Dragu

Synopsis A young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.

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Escape from San Quentin

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Fred F. Sears

Cast Johnny Desmond · Merry Anders · Richard Devon · Roy Engel

Synopsis An escaped convict decides to quit running and turn himself and his fellow escapee in to the authorities - but not without complications.

Not rated

Not rated

Cry of Battle

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Irving Lerner

Cast Van Heflin · Rita Moreno · James MacArthur · Leopoldo Salcedo

Synopsis During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.

Not rated

Not rated

The Man Who Turned to Stone

1957 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction László Kardos

Cast Victor Jory · William Hudson · Charlotte Austin · Jean Willes

Synopsis A group of 18th-century scientists, led by Dr. Murdock, have remained young after all these centuries by using electricity to suck the life out of young women. If one of the scientists misses a treatment, his skin hardens to the...

Not rated

Not rated

Flesh and Fury

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Tony Curtis · Jan Sterling · Mona Freeman · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann...

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Not rated