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
Direction Boris Sagal · Stuart Rosenberg · Walter Doniger · Ida Lupino
Cast Rod Taylor · Lloyd Bochner · Gerald Jann · Jack Kruschen
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...
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...
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
Direction James Neilson
Cast Tom Tryon · Brian Keith · Edmond O'Brien · Dany Saval
4.4
42 votes
4.4
42 votes