Screenplay: David Swift
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by David Swift. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Robert Morse · Michele Lee · Rudy Vallee · Anthony "Scooter" Teague
Plot Twenty-seven year old New York window washer J. Pierpont Finch believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed...
6.3
104 votes
6.3
104 votes
Good Neighbor Sam
1964 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Jack Lemmon · Romy Schneider · Dorothy Provine · Edward G. Robinson
6.3
567 votes
6.3
567 votes
Pollyanna
1960 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Hayley Mills · Jane Wyman · Richard Egan · Karl Malden
Plot A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her...
6.2
444 votes
6.2
444 votes
Candleshoe
1977 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Norman Tokar
Cast David Niven · Helen Hayes · Jodie Foster · Leo McKern
Plot Small time crook, Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor where Lady St. Edmund resides, with a number of children and her butler (Priory) is the resting place for a...
5.8
143 votes
5.8
143 votes
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Jack Lemmon · Carol Lynley · Dean Jones · Edie Adams
Plot A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiance and give him a chance.
5.6
166 votes
5.6
166 votes
The Parent Trap
1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Hayley Mills · Maureen O'Hara · Brian Keith · Charles Ruggles
Plot Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent...
5.5
7K votes
5.5
7K votes
Love Is a Ball
1963 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Glenn Ford · Hope Lange · Charles Boyer · Ricardo Montalban
Plot Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and...
5.4
42 votes
5.4
42 votes
The Parent Trap
1998 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Nancy Meyers
Cast Lindsay Lohan · Dennis Quaid · Natasha Richardson · Lisa Ann Walter
4.5
18K votes
4.5
18K votes
So You Want to Be a Detective (S)
1948 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
Direction Richard L. Bare
Cast George O'Hanlon · Art Gilmore · Kit Guard · Charles Horvath
Plot Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
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Mister Peepers (TV Series)
1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction David Swift · Hal Keith · James Sheldon
Cast Wally Cox · Marion Lorne · Patricia Benoit · Tony Randall
Plot TV Series (1952-1953). 32 episodes. Wally Cox as Mr. Peepers played a shy science teacher at "Jefferson Junior High". Mr. Peepers was always facing problems, but never outwitted.
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Beers of Joy
2019 · Documentary · 118 min. · United States
Direction David Swift · Scott Owen
Plot A journey into our world's favorite magical elixir.
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The Interns
1962 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Michael Callan · Cliff Robertson · James MacArthur · Nick Adams
Plot During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. John Paul Otis destroys his medical career when he...
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Camp Runamuck (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 22 min. · United States
Direction Howard Duff · R. Robert Rosenbaum · David Swift · Hal March
Cast David Ketchum · Arch Johnson · Dave Madden · Nina Wayne
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Arnie (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction David Swift · Don Richardson · Allen Baron · Roger Duchowny
Cast Herschel Bernardi · Sue Ane Langdon · Roger Bowen · Charles Nelson Reilly
Plot TV Series (1970-1972). 2 Seasons. Arnie Nuvo has worked on the loading dock at Continental Flange for years, and is quite content in his blue-collar life. When he suddenly gets...
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Grindl (TV Series)
1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton · Sherman Marks · William D. Russell · King Donovan
Cast Imogene Coca · Dee J. Thompson · James Millhollin · Clyde Adler
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Vacation Playhouse (TV Series)
1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Don Taylor · Jack Donohue · David Alexander · Jerry Hopper
Cast Soupy Sales · Pat Crowley · Darryl Hickman · Marvin Kaplan
Plot TV Series (1963–1967). Summer replacement show featuring pilot programs that had not been sold.
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Foolin' Around
1980 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Richard T. Heffron
Cast Gary Busey · Annette O'Toole · John Calvin · Eddie Albert
Plot A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.
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Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann · Arthur Penn · Vincent J. Donehue · Robert Mulligan
Cast Walter Matthau · David White · Constance Ford · E.G. Marshall
Plot TV Series (1951-1957). 6 seasons. 140 episodes. The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.
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The Legend of Hallowaiian
2018 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Plot Kai, Leilani, Eddie and the Menehune, Hawaii’s mischievous creatures, must band together to stop the monster they have mistakenly awoken. Facing great dangers along the way, the kids realise the...
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