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.
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