Screenplay: Joseph Petracca

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


The Reluctant Saint

1962 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Maximilian Schell · Ricardo Montalban · Lea Padovani · Akim Tamiroff

Plot The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy...

6.8

140 votes

6.8

140 votes

One Step Beyond (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively

Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule

Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...

6.8

60 votes

6.8

60 votes

The Proud Ones

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Ryan · Virginia Mayo · Jeffrey Hunter · Robert Middleton

Plot Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a...

6.4

298 votes

6.4

298 votes

The Proud Rebel

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Alan Ladd · Olivia de Havilland · Dean Jagger · David Ladd

Plot Just after the Civil War, proud rebel Alan Ladd doggedly wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. The warmth of a father's love and...

6.3

610 votes

6.3

610 votes

The Jayhawkers!

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank

Cast Jeff Chandler · Fess Parker · Nicole Maurey · Henry Silva

Plot In the maelstrom of Pre-Civil War Kansas, a government agent infiltrates the vigilante group called the Jayhawks.

5.6

89 votes

5.6

89 votes

Seven Cities of Gold

1955 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Richard Egan · Anthony Quinn · Michael Rennie · Jeffrey Hunter

Plot In the eighteenth century, a Spanish expedition is looking for seven cities of gold in a territory now known as California. A very difficult task due the opposition of the...

5.4

84 votes

5.4

84 votes

It's a Big Country

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown · Don Hartman · John Sturges · Richard Thorpe

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Keefe Brasselle · Gary Cooper · Nancy Reagan

Plot The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning.

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

Guns of the Timberland

1960 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Alan Ladd · Jeanne Crain · Gilbert Roland · Frankie Avalon

Plot Guns of the Timberland is a 1960 feature film starring Alan Ladd and Jeanne Crain. Alan Ladd plays Jim Hadley, a logger. Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for...

5.1

104 votes

5.1

104 votes

The Lineup (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Asher · Hollingsworth Morse · Harold D. Schuster · Earl Bellamy

Cast Warner Anderson · Tom Tully · Marshall Reed · Ruta Lee

Plot The show focuses on the procedural work of the San Francisco Police Department in solving various crimes. Heading the investigations were Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie (played by Warner Anderson), Inspector...

Not rated

Not rated

Something for the Birds

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Victor Mature · Patricia Neal · Edmund Gwenn · Larry Keating

Plot Enviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor. She enlists the aid of...

Not rated

Not rated

The Richard Boone Show (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boone · Robert Gist · Harry Morgan · Robert Butler

Cast Robert Blake · Lloyd Bochner · Richard Boone · Laura Devon

Plot TV Series (1963-1964). 1 seasons. 25 episodes. An anthology series starring Richard Boone as host and actor.

Not rated

Not rated