Screenplay: Harry Kurnitz
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...
8.6
43K votes
8.6
43K votes
Hatari!
1962 · Movie · 159 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast John Wayne · Hardy Krüger · Elsa Martinelli · Bruce Cabot
Plot John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
The Web
1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Ella Raines · Edmond O'Brien · William Bendix · Vincent Price
Plot Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret...
7.1
145 votes
7.1
145 votes
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis
Plot In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
How to Steal a Million
1966 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Peter O'Toole · Audrey Hepburn · Charles Boyer · Eli Wallach
Plot Audrey Hepburn was never more sleek and glamorous than in this delightful romantic caper costarring Peter O'Toole and directed by William Wyler. She's the chic daughter of a renowned art...
6.7
4K votes
6.7
4K votes
The Man Between
1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast James Mason · Claire Bloom · Hildegard Knef · Geoffrey Toone
Plot Young english Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) on visit to Berlin becomes involved with political racketeer in elaborate plot to lure espionage agent from the Western to the Eastern sector.
6.6
296 votes
6.6
296 votes
I Love You Again
1940 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Frank McHugh · Edmund Lowe
Plot Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
6.6
42 votes
6.6
42 votes
A Shot in the Dark
1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Peter Sellers · Elke Sommer · Herbert Lom · George Sanders
Plot The second in the series of films involving bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau has the the inept detective trying to clear a maid accused of murdering her lover--even though all...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Barry Nelson · Donna Reed
Plot Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams...
6.6
359 votes
6.6
359 votes
Witness for the Prosecution (TV)
1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan Gibson
Cast Ralph Richardson · Deborah Kerr · Beau Bridges · Donald Pleasence
6.0
57 votes
6.0
57 votes
One Touch of Venus
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Robert Walker · Ava Gardner · Dick Haymes · Eve Arden
Plot A window dresser in a department store feels a strange attraction to a mannequin in the display. One night he impulsively kisses her; she comes to life and reveals herself...
6.0
647 votes
6.0
647 votes
The Happy Road
1957 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Gene Kelly
Cast Gene Kelly · Barbara Laage · Bobby Clark · Brigitte Fossey
Plot An American boy and a French girl run away from a Swiss school making for Paris to reunite with their parents. The boy's father (Gene Kelly) and the girl's mother...
5.8
38 votes
5.8
38 votes
Goodbye Charlie
1964 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Tony Curtis · Debbie Reynolds · Pat Boone · Joanna Barnes
Plot Very much a product of its time with its swingin' sixties, playboy aura. Hollywood writer Charlie Sorel is murdered by film producer Leopold Sartori (Walter Matthau) when he catches Charlie...
5.8
165 votes
5.8
165 votes
The Inspector General
1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester
Plot An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector...
5.7
371 votes
5.7
371 votes
Adventures of Don Juan
1948 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast Errol Flynn · Viveca Lindfors · Robert Douglas · Alan Hale
Plot In the end of the Seventeenth Century, Don Juan de Marana is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with a British fiancée...
5.7
392 votes
5.7
392 votes
The Love Lottery
1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast David Niven · Peggy Cummins · Anne Vernon · Herbert Lom
5.7
74 votes
5.7
74 votes
Once More, With Feeling!
1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Yul Brynner · Kay Kendall · Geoffrey Toone · Maxwell Shaw
5.3
71 votes
5.3
71 votes
Something in the Wind
1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Irving Pichel
Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Winninger · Donald O´Connor · John Dall
Plot A beautiful female disc-jockey is mistaken for the girlfriend of a geriatric millionaire by the millionaire's grandson.
5.2
37 votes
5.2
37 votes
Surprise Package
1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Yul Brynner · Mitzi Gaynor · Noël Coward · Eric Pohlmann
5.1
46 votes
5.1
46 votes
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
1945 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Walker · Keenan Wynn · Jean Porter · Chill Wills
Plot This follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove suffers from that common movie malady known as Sequelitis, meaning that it's not quite as good as its predecessor. U.S....
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