Screenplay: Sally Benson

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


Shadow of a Doubt

1943 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers

Plot Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need:...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

No Man of Her Own

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

7.2

519 votes

7.2

519 votes

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Plot St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard

Plot ad feedbackIn 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects...

6.4

549 votes

6.4

549 votes

Come to the Stable

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Loretta Young · Celeste Holm · Hugh Marlowe · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

Conspirator

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Robert Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor · Robert Flemyng · Harold Warrender

Plot London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His...

5.4

88 votes

5.4

88 votes

Viva Las Vegas

1964 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Elvis Presley · Ann-Margret · Cesare Danova · William Demarest

Plot Lucky Jackson (Elvis) arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine....

5.0

735 votes

5.0

735 votes

The Singing Nun

1966 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Ricardo Montalban · Greer Garson · Agnes Moorehead

Plot A Belgian nun, Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls like, Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's...

4.8

66 votes

4.8

66 votes

Shadow of a Doubt (TV)

1991 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Karen Arthur

Cast Mark Harmon · Margaret Welsh · Norm Skaggs · William Lanteau

Plot Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has...

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Joy in the Morning

1965 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Alex Segal

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Yvette Mimieux · Arthur Kennedy · Oskar Homolka

Plot Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie,...

Not rated

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Signpost to Murder

1964 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction George Englund

Cast Joanne Woodward · Stuart Whitman · Edward Mulhare · Alan Napier

Plot Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 10 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane. Dr. Mark Fleming, Forrester's psychiatrist, informs...

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Meet Me in St. Louis (TV)

1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Tab Hunter · Jane Powell · Walter Pidgeon · Jeanne Crain

Plot A year in the life of the Smith family as they prepare to move to NYC and anticipate the 1904 St Louis World's Fair. Many musical numbers as Esther and...

Not rated

Not rated

Curtain Call (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (TV)

1958 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet · George Schaefer

Cast Tab Hunter · Peggy King · Jarmila Novotna · Dick Button

Plot In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.

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Summer Magic

1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Betty Grable · Dale Robertson · Thelma Ritter · John Carroll

Plot Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable...

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Junior Miss

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Peggy Ann Garner · Stephen Dunne · Allyn Joslyn · Faye Marlowe

Plot New York teenager gets involved in everyone's lives by playing cupid. She turns the household upsidedown and gets her dad fired by fixing up her uncle with the boss's daughter.

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Not rated