Screenplay: Nelson Gidding

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


I Want to Live!

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Susan Hayward · Simon Oakland · Virginia Vincent · Theodore Bikel

Plot Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Oscar for her shattering portrayal of a fast-living girl who suddenly finds herself facing the death penalty for a murder she didn't commit.

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Odds Against Tomorrow

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Harry Belafonte · Robert Ryan · Shelley Winters · Ed Begley

Plot Ex cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a white and racist ex-convict, and Johnny...

6.8

632 votes

6.8

632 votes

The Andromeda Strain

1971 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Arthur Hill · David Wayne · Kate Reid · James Olson

Plot When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found to have died after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air...

6.7

11K votes

6.7

11K votes

The Haunting

1963 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Julie Harris · Claire Bloom · Richard Johnson · Russ Tamblyn

Plot Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

The Helen Morgan Story

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Ann Blyth · Paul Newman · Richard Carlson · Gene Evans

Plot The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on...

6.1

159 votes

6.1

159 votes

Lost Command

1966 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Alain Delon · George Segal · Michèle Morgan

Plot Lost Command is based on Jean Larteguy's novel "The Centurians" with Anthony Quinn portraying the main character Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy. The film opens with Raspeguy and his paratrooper battalion fighting...

5.9

399 votes

5.9

399 votes

The Hindenburg

1975 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast George C. Scott · Anne Bancroft · William Atherton · Roy Thinnes

Plot Geramany, 1937. Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, finds himself assigned to the flight of the Hindenburg as chief of security;...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Nine Hours to Rama

1963 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Horst Buchholz · José Ferrer · Valerie Gearon · Don Borisenko

Plot "Nine hours to Rama" depicts the life of Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. How Godse planned the assassination is shown in the film. How he became a Hindu...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen

Cast Michael Caine · Karl Malden · Sally Field · Telly Savalas

Plot Adventurers return to the overturned ship, seeking a fortune.

5.2

947 votes

5.2

947 votes

The Misfit Brigade

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

5.1

519 votes

5.1

519 votes

Shogun Mayeda

1991 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

4.7

28 votes

4.7

28 votes

Skullduggery

1970 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Burt Reynolds · Susan Clark · Roger C. Carmel · Paul Hubschmid

Plot An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man. However, the influence of...

4.5

23 votes

4.5

23 votes

The Mummy Lives

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Gerry O'Hara

Cast Tony Curtis · Leslie Hardy · Greg Wrangler · Jack Cohen

Plot Tony Curtis plays a mummy who returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.

3.4

33 votes

3.4

33 votes

Banyon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ed Adamson · Ralph Senensky · Daniel Petrie · Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Robert Forster · Joan Blondell · Richard Jaeckel · Julie Gregg

Plot TV Series (1971-1973) 15 Episodes. The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.

Not rated

Not rated

The Inspector / Lisa

1962 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Philip Dunne

Cast Stephen Boyd · Dolores Hart · Leo McKern · Hugh Griffith

Plot When the end came for World War II, many Jews were spread around the free world and desired to return to Palestine. Lisa Held has been promised to be returned...

Not rated

Not rated

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George W. Trendle · Fran Striker · Eddie Dew · Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast Dick Simmons · Paul McGuire · Francis De Sales · Terry Frost

Plot Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.

Not rated

Not rated

Onionhead

1958 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Andy Griffith · Felicia Farr · Walter Matthau · Erin O'Brien

Plot After his girlfriend Jo refuses to make a commitment to their relationship, Al Woods decides to enlist and finds himself in the US Coast Guard. He makes it through basic...

Not rated

Not rated

The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Paul Landres · Harold Daniels · Gilbert Kay

Cast Charles Bickford · Joel Aldred · Norman Rose · Paul Brinegar

Plot Stories taken from the files of various law-enforcement agencies, including city, county and state police, park rangers, military police, etc.

Not rated

Not rated