Screenplay: Noël Langley

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


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...

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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

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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

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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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