Screenplay: Charles Lederer

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


His Girl Friday

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Plot Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day...

8.0

11K votes

8.0

11K votes

Kiss of Death

1947 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Widmark · Brian Donlevy · Coleen Gray

Plot Nick Bianco is a small-time hoodlum and thief who is shot and arrested after he and three others hold up an exclusive jewelry store. The District Attorney, Louis D'Angelo offers...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962 · Movie · 178 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Marlon Brando · Trevor Howard · Richard Harris · Hugh Griffith

Plot The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Ocean's Eleven

2001 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Steven Soderbergh

Cast George Clooney · Julia Roberts · Matt Damon · Andy García

Plot Danny Ocean is a thief who has just been paroled from prison. He seeks out his partner, Rusty and he has a job. And it is to rob the vault...

7.2

89K votes

7.2

89K votes

Monkey Business

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Charles Coburn · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Thing from Another World

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby · Howard Hawks

Cast Margaret Sheridan · Kenneth Tobey · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer

Plot Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back...

7.0

8K votes

7.0

8K votes

I Was a Male War Bride

1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Ann Sheridan · Marion Marshall · Randy Stuart

Plot Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan). Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry....

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jane Russell · Charles Coburn · Tommy Noonan

Plot Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

Love Crazy

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gail Patrick · Jack Carson

Plot Steve and Susan Ireland find nothing but trouble as they get ready to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. Susan catches Steve with his old girlfriend and mistakenly believes he is...

6.6

97 votes

6.6

97 votes

I Love You Again

1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Frank McHugh · Edmund Lowe

Plot Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

The Spirit of St. Louis

1957 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast James Stewart · Murray Hamilton · Patricia Smith · Bartlett Robinson

Plot Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Ride the Pink Horse

1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Robert Montgomery

Cast Robert Montgomery · Wanda Hendrix · Andrea King · Thomas Gomez

Plot In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge;...

6.4

259 votes

6.4

259 votes

Ocean's Eleven

1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Comrade X

1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Clark Gable · Hedy Lamarr · Oskar Homolka · Felix Bressart

Plot McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. Vanya fears for the safety of...

6.0

335 votes

6.0

335 votes

Can-Can

1960 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Frank Sinatra · Shirley MacLaine · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan

Plot 1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their...

6.0

199 votes

6.0

199 votes

Kismet

1955 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Stanley Donen

Cast Howard Keel · Ann Blyth · Dolores Gray · Vic Damone

Plot Like a tale spun by Schehrazade, Kismet follows the remarkable and repeated changes of fortune that engulf a poor poet. It all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate)...

5.7

214 votes

5.7

214 votes

It Started with a Kiss

1959 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

5.2

104 votes

5.2

104 votes

Follow That Dream

1962 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Elvis Presley · Arthur O'Connell · Anne Helm · Joanna Moore

Plot When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels...

5.0

71 votes

5.0

71 votes

Tip on a Dead Jockey

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

5.0

29 votes

5.0

29 votes

A Global Affair

1964 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Bob Hope · Michèle Mercier · Elga Andersen · Yvonne De Carlo

Plot When an abandoned baby is left inside the United Nations building, an American UN representative must figure out which country would have the right to adopt it.

3.8

25 votes

3.8

25 votes