Screenplay: Mel Goldberg

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


Hang 'Em High

1968 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Clint Eastwood · Inger Stevens · Ed Begley · Arlene Golonka

Plot A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to...

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6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner · Don Medford · Charles S. Dubin · Leonard Valenta

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Theo Goetz · Olive Deering · Bruce Cabot

Plot TV Series (1951–1953). Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes.

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

The Big Valley (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Louis F. Edelman · A.I. Bezzerides · Virgil W. Vogel · Bernard McEveety

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Long · Lee Majors · Linda Evans

Plot TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 112 Episodes. Victoria Barkley heads her adult brood on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Heath is the...

6.0

97 votes

6.0

97 votes

Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leonard Freeman · Michael O'Herlihy · Charles S. Dubin · Paul Stanley

Cast Jack Lord · James MacArthur · Kam Fong · Herman Wedemeyer

Plot TV Series (1968-1980). 12 Seasons. 284 episodes. The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve...

5.8

245 votes

5.8

245 votes

East Side / West Side (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries · Daniel Petrie · Herschel Daugherty · Marc Daniels

Cast George C. Scott · Elizabeth Wilson · Cicely Tyson · Linden Chiles

Plot TV Series (1963-1964). 1 season. 26 episodes. Neil Brock is a young social worker in the slums of New York City; his boss is Frieda Hechlinger; and Jane Foster is...

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Switch (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Bruce Kessler · Leo Penn

Cast Robert Wagner · Eddie Albert · Charlie Callas · Sharon Gless

Plot Ex-cop Frank McBride (Eddie Albert) and ex-con Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner) start their own detective agency.

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Studio One (TV Series)

1948 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Paul Nickell · Franklin J. Schaffner · Allen Reisner · Robert Mulligan

Cast Al Markim · Alexander Scourby · Arthur Storch · Casey Allen

Plot Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. A total of 466 episodes aired on CBS between 1948 and 1958. The program appeared...

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The Young Lawyers (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Zagor · John Newland · Jud Taylor · Harvey Hart

Cast Zalman King · Judy Pace · Lee J. Cobb · Phillip Clark

Plot TV Series (1969-1971). 1 Season. 24 Episodes. David Barrett heads an organization in Boston that supports poor and indigent clients with the aid of young lawyers.

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Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series)

1947 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham · Stanley Quinn · Sidney Lumet · Paul Bogart

Cast Ed Herlihy · Vaughn Taylor · Valerie Cossart · E.G. Marshall

Plot TV Series (1947-1958). 11 seasons. 542 episodes. This live anthology drama series was the first weekly commercial network program.

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The Lively Set

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast James Darren · Pamela Tiffin · Doug McClure · Joanie Sommers

Plot Casey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed...

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Cain's Hundred (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Peyser · Tom Gries · Boris Sagal · Robert Gist

Cast Peter Mark Richman · Gene Coogan · Eddie Hice · Gavin MacLeod

Plot A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring one hundred top criminals to justice.

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Mr. Novak (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · E. Jack Neuman · Michael O'Herlihy · Abner Biberman

Cast James Franciscus · Dean Jagger · Burgess Meredith · Charles Briles

Plot TV Series (1963-1965). 2 Seasons. 60 episodes. The experiences of a young, tough-minded, idealistic high school English teacher on his first job provided the stories in this series. John Novak...

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Lancer (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Samuel A. Peeples · Allen Reisner · Don Richardson · William Hale

Cast James Stacy · Wayne Maunder · Andrew Duggan · Elizabeth Baur

Plot A tyrannical owner of a vast ranch recruits his two estranged and vastly opposite sons to maintain an uneasy alliance as they fight off forces that would destroy the ranch.

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The Murder Men

1961 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

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Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Vincent McEveety · Alvin Ganzer · Charles R. Rondeau

Cast Stuart Whitman · Percy Herbert · Randy Boone · Jill Townsend

Plot TV Series (1967-1968). 23 Episodes. The western adventures of tough, but fair, Marshal Jim Crown.

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Dan August (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Senensky · George McCowan · Harvey Hart · Gene Nelson

Cast Burt Reynolds · Norman Fell · Ned Romero · Richard Anderson

Plot Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. While working cases with his partner Sgt. Wilentz, August frequently comes into contact with people he...

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Journey to a Hanging (TV)

1967 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Vincent McEveety

Cast Stuart Whitman · Percy Herbert · Randy Boone · Jill Townsend

Plot Crown leads a posse after Ace Coffin's gang. The posse is endangered by one of its members known as "Screamer" who is only interested in the bounty on Coffin's head.

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You Are There (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Girard · William D. Russell · Sidney Lumet · Jack Gage

Cast Walter Cronkite · Paul Birch · Roy Engel · E.G. Marshall

Plot 160 Episodes (1953-1972). Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and...

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Danger (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet · John Frankenheimer · Yul Brynner · John Peyser

Cast Dick Stark · Edward Binns · Richard Kiley · Joseph Anthony

Plot Live psychological and murder mystery dramas, and one of the first U.S. television dramas to make effective use of background music.

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