Screenplay: Noël Langley
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Noël Langley. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 29
The Wizard of Oz
1939 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Judy Garland · Frank Morgan · Ray Bolger · Bert Lahr
Plot Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone arrives, and picks her, her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in...
7.4
54K votes
7.4
54K votes
Ivanhoe
1952 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders
Plot Robert Taylor and Director Richard Thorpe team up for this epic tale of noble knights and beautiful damsels in this adaptation of the 1819 Sir Walter Scott classic. The story...
7.0
15K votes
7.0
15K votes
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast Trevor Howard · Griffith Jones · Sally Gray · René Ray
Plot In this gritty film noir, ex-RAF flyer Morgan joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed...
6.8
282 votes
6.8
282 votes
A Christmas Carol
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Alastair Sim · Kathleen Harrison · Mervyn Johns · Hermione Baddeley
Plot An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.
6.8
546 votes
6.8
546 votes
Edward, My Son
1949 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Spencer Tracy · Deborah Kerr · Ian Hunter · James Donald
Plot Londoners Arnold and Evelyn Boult had high hopes for the life of their son, Edward. His relatively short life ended up being one of privilege but irresponsibility. His life ended...
6.5
286 votes
6.5
286 votes
Knights of the Round Table
1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Ava Gardner · Mel Ferrer · Anne Crawford
Plot King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Trio
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French
Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris
Plot Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor...
6.3
52 votes
6.3
52 votes
Adam and Evelyne
1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Harold French
Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Edwin Styles
Plot Gambler Stewart Granger becomes guardian to homeless woman Jean Simmons and tells her he's a stockbroker and she's the daughter of one of his friends. While Granger lavishes Simmons with...
5.7
223 votes
5.7
223 votes
Maytime
1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · John Barrymore · Herman Bing
Plot An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young and beautiful opera singer Marcia Morney-then the toast of Napoleon III's Paris. One evening, she encounters an American voice...
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Unexpected Uncle
1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Anne Shirley · James Craig · Charles Coburn · Ernest Truex
Plot A feisty retiree plays peacemaker for a young couple.
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Our Girl Friday
1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Noël Langley
Cast Joan Collins · George Cole · Kenneth More · Robertson Hare
Plot Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor...
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Svengali
1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Noël Langley
Cast Hildegard Knef · Donald Wolfit · Terence Morgan · Derek Bond
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The Pickwick Papers
1952 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Noël Langley
Cast James Hayter · James Donald · Nigel Patrick · Joyce Grenfell
Plot The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their...
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series)
1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Boris Sagal · Walter Doniger · Fred Jackman Jr. · Ted Post
Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Kurt Russell · Mark Allen · Meg Wyllie
Plot Twelve-year-old Jamie McPheeters, along with his ne'er-do-well father and a ragtag group of pioneers, travel westward from Paducah, Kentucky to the California gold fields in 1849.
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Secret of Stamboul
1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Marton
Cast Valerie Hobson · Frank Vosper · James Mason · Kay Walsh
Plot A British agent (Mason) travels to Istanbul (Stamboul) to try to thwart a revolution.
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Apocalypse Oz
2006 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Ben Telford
Cast M.C. Gainey · Alexandra Gizela · Billy Briggs · Kevin Glikmann
Plot Dorothy Willard, delinquent Amerasian offspring of the Vietnam War, lives very out of place in Kansas with her abusive aunt and uncle. Deciding that "there's no horror like home" she...
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Florian
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Robert Young · Helen Gilbert · Charles Coburn · Lee Bowman
Plot Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Cardboard Cavalier
1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Sid Field · Margaret Lockwood · Jerry Desmonde · Jack McNaughton
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Father's Doing Fine
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast Richard Attenborough · Heather Thatcher · Noel Purcell · George Tjorpe
Plot Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending...
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Snow White and the Three Stooges
1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Carol Heiss · Larry Fine · Joe DeRita · Moe Howard
Plot Based on the classic fairy tale, Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe (the Three Stooges) substitute for the Seven Dwarfs while the princess Snow White (Olympic figure skating champion Carol Heiss)...
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