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...

Max

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

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

5.7

74 votes

5.7

74 votes

Once More, With Feeling!

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

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

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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