Screenplay: Robert Buckner

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


Hong Kong (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes

Dodge City

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Ann Sheridan · Bruce Cabot

Plot A Texas cattle agent (Errol Flynn) witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

From Hell to Texas

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Don Murray · Diane Varsi · Chill Wills · Dennis Hopper

Plot A spare, almost austere western, From Hell to Texas stars Don Murray as a carefree cowpoke. Accidentally killing the son of a powerful land baron (R. G. Armstrong), Murray runs...

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Joan Leslie · Walter Huston · Rosemary DeCamp

Plot A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he...

6.7

947 votes

6.7

947 votes

Virginia City

1940 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Miriam Hopkins · Randolph Scott · Humphrey Bogart

Plot Union officer Kerry Bradford (Errol Flynn) escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance...

6.4

407 votes

6.4

407 votes

The Oklahoma Kid

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Humphrey Bogart · Rosemary Lane · Donald Crisp

Plot McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid (Cagney) takes the money from McCord (Bogart). McCord...

Max

6.3

194 votes

6.3

194 votes

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Raymond Massey · Ronald Reagan

Plot The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Confidential Agent

1945 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Charles Boyer · Lauren Bacall · Victor Francen · Wanda Hendrix

Plot During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier Louis Denard (Charles Boyer) travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his...

6.2

175 votes

6.2

175 votes

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · John Litel

Plot Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death...

Max

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Dive Bomber

1941 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Alexis Smith

Plot A new flight surgeon (Flynn) and a Navy pilot (MacMurray) overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of Altitude Sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real...

5.9

204 votes

5.9

204 votes

Gold is Where You Find It

1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast George Brent · Claude Rains · Olivia de Havilland · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between farmers and miners in the Sacramento valley during the years following the...

5.6

86 votes

5.6

86 votes

Bright Victory

1951 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Peggy Dow · Julie Adams · James Edwards

Plot In North Africa during World War II, Sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper's bullet. Rehabilitation at the military hospital presents many challenges, but accepting his disability also...

5.5

28 votes

5.5

28 votes

A Prize of Gold

1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Widmark · Mai Zetterling · Nigel Patrick · George Cole

Plot Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh! In this Taut post-war thriller Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American army sergeant who steals a shipment of Nazi...

5.4

78 votes

5.4

78 votes

Safari

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Victor Mature · Janet Leigh · John Justin · Roland Culver

Plot When his family is wiped out by Mau Mau insurrectionists, white hunter Mature assembles an expedition to track down the tribal leader responsible for the massacre. The British authorities don't...

5.3

206 votes

5.3

206 votes

Espionage Agent

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joel McCrea · Brenda Marshall · Jeffrey Lynn · George Bancroft

Plot When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to...

5.3

22 votes

5.3

22 votes

Return of the Gunfighter

1967 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction James Neilson

Cast Robert Taylor · Ana Martín · Chad Everett · Mort Mills

Plot An aging gunman and a wounded drifter come upon a young Mexican girl, and agree to help her avenge the death of her father, who was murdered for their land.

5.2

47 votes

5.2

47 votes

The Man Behind the Gun

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Randolph Scott · Patrice Wymore · Dick Wesson · Phil Carey

Plot Posing as a schoolteacher, undercover government agent Ransome Callicut arrives in 1850's California to gather intelligence about an insurrectionist plot to have the southern part of the state secede to...

5.1

128 votes

5.1

128 votes

To Paris with Love

1955 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Alec Guinness · Odile Versois · Vernon Gray · Elina Labourdette

Plot A debonair, aristocratic widower Sir Edgar Fraser, who takes his twenty-year old son off to Paris for a thorough education in the finer points of romance. At the same time,...

5.0

56 votes

5.0

56 votes

Love Me Tender

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Elvis Presley · Richard Egan · Debra Paget · Bruce Bennett

Plot At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until...

4.9

400 votes

4.9

400 votes

Moon Pilot

1962 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

4.4

42 votes

4.4

42 votes