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...
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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...
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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.
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