Screenplay: Peter Viertel

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


The Hard Way

1943 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ida Lupino · Joan Leslie · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson

Plot Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

7.1

23 votes

7.1

23 votes

White Hunter, Black Heart

1990 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Jeff Fahey · George Dzundza · Alun Armstrong

Plot Set in 1951, the film begins as film director Wilson (Eastwood) summons an old friend, writer Pete Verrill (Jeff Fahey), to recruit him for his latest project about a hard-drinking...

7.0

8K votes

7.0

8K votes

Decision Before Dawn

1951 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Richard Basehart · Gary Merrill · Oskar Werner · Hildegard Knef

Plot WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of...

6.7

190 votes

6.7

190 votes

Saboteur

1942 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Priscilla Lane · Robert Cummings · Otto Kruger · Alan Baxter

Plot A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

The Old Man and the Sea

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Felipe Pazos · Harry Bellaver · Don Diamond

Plot An old Cuban fisherman goes out to get fish, something he has not done well at for the last three months. He catches a huge one which is devoured by...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

We Were Strangers

1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Jennifer Jones · John Garfield · Pedro Armendáriz · Gilbert Roland

Plot China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner....

6.2

203 votes

6.2

203 votes

Five Miles to Midnight

1962 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Gig Young · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says...

5.8

159 votes

5.8

159 votes

Roughshod

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland

Plot Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

The Sun Also Rises

1957 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Ava Gardner · Tyrone Power · Mel Ferrer · Errol Flynn

Plot After the First World War, Jake Barnes drifts through Europe seeking excitement to compensate for the impotence caused by a war wound. In Paris he meets Lady Brett Ashley, the...

5.4

470 votes

5.4

470 votes

The Village

1953 · Movie · 98 min. · Switzerland

Direction Leopold Lindtberg

Cast John Justin · Eva Dahlbeck · Sigfrit Steiner · Mary Hinton

Plot This film deals with the War Orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 orphans from all parts of Europe are gathered.

Not rated

Not rated