Screenplay: George Worthing Yates
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by George Worthing Yates. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 25
The Tall Target
1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson
Plot A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
6.8
184 votes
6.8
184 votes
This Woman Is Dangerous
1952 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Joan Crawford · Dennis Morgan · David Brian · Richard Webb
Plot A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight....
6.6
85 votes
6.6
85 votes
The Spanish Main
1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Paul Henreid · Maureen O'Hara · Walter Slezak · Binnie Barnes
Plot A raging storm shipwrecks a Dutch crew on an island, where a Spanish dictator forces some of them into slavery. Others (including the captain) flee, and out of spite attack...
6.0
698 votes
6.0
698 votes
China Venture
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Barry Sullivan · Jocelyn Brando · Leo Gordon
Plot An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese...
5.9
25 votes
5.9
25 votes
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Fred F. Sears
Cast Hugh Marlowe · Joan Taylor · Donald Curtis · Morris Ankrum
Plot Space scientist Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Carol (Joan Taylor) are working on a secret missile project, but every time their rockets are launched, they are intercepted...
5.8
800 votes
5.8
800 votes
It Came from Beneath the Sea
1955 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Bobby Gordon
Cast Kenneth Tobey · Faith Domergue · Donald Curtis · Ian Keith
Plot A gigantic octopus -- who's a real sourpuss -- terrorizes an atomic submarine shuttling the Pacific. By the time the crew realizes the monster is the nasty by-product of a...
5.4
394 votes
5.4
394 votes
Attack of the Puppet People
1958 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Bert I. Gordon
Cast John Agar · John Hoyt · June Kenney · Susan Gordon
5.4
53 votes
5.4
53 votes
Conquest of Space
1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Byron Haskin
Cast Walter Brooke · Eric Fleming · Mickey Shaughnessy · Phil Foster
5.1
112 votes
5.1
112 votes
The Last Outpost
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast Ronald Reagan · Rhonda Fleming · Bruce Bennett · Bill Williams
Plot Two brothers who are not the best friends because they were fighting on different sides during the Civil War have to cooperate in order to defend themselves against an attack...
5.0
92 votes
5.0
92 votes
The Amazing Colossal Man
1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Bert I. Gordon
Cast Glenn Langan · Cathy Downs · William Hudson · Larry Thor
Plot Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90% of his body, he survives, and begins to grow in...
4.9
112 votes
4.9
112 votes
Tormented
1960 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Bert I. Gordon
Cast Juli Reding · Lugene Sanders · Richard Carlson · Susan Gordon
Plot On an island community off of California, Tom Stewart is preparing to marry the woman he loves. His plans are threatened by his old girlfriend, Vi, who shows up secretly....
4.8
27 votes
4.8
27 votes
Frankenstein 1970
1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Howard W. Koch
Cast Boris Karloff · Tom Duggan · Jana Lund · Don 'Red' Barry
Plot Baron Victor Von Frankenstein has fallen on hard times; he was tortured at the hands of the Nazis for not cooperating with them during World War II and he is...
4.8
47 votes
4.8
47 votes
Earth vs. The Spider
1958 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Bert I. Gordon
Cast Ed Kemmer · June Kenney · Eugene Persson · Gene Roth
Plot When a man doesn't come home one night his daughter and her boyfriend go out searching and encounter a giant spider in a cave near the man's wrecked car. Coming...
4.8
151 votes
4.8
151 votes
War of the Colossal Beast
1958 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Bert I. Gordon
Cast Sally Fraser · Roger Pace · Russ Bender · Rico Alaniz
Plot Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
4.2
44 votes
4.2
44 votes
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction James Michener · Felix E. Feist · Joseph Lejtes · Robert Florey
Cast Gardner McKay · James Holden · Guy Stockwell · Lani Kai
Plot TV Series. 91 episodes. Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war. As captain of the schooner "Tiki III", Troy drifted from...
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The Lone Ranger
1938 · Movie · 264 min. · United States
Direction John English · William Witney
Cast Silver Chief · Chief Thundercloud · Lynne Roberts · Stanley Andrews
Plot An outlaw leader planning to take control of Texas after the Civil War kills Colonel Jeffries, a man empowered to levy taxes, and assumes his identity.
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El Alaméin
1953 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Fred F. Sears
Cast Scott Brady · Edward Ashley · Robin Hughes · Rita Moreno
Plot Exploits of a party of allied soldiers before the victory of El Alamein.
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Space Master X-7
1958 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Edward Bernds
Cast Bill Williams · Lyn Thomas · Robert Ellis · Paul Frees
Plot A fungus brought from space threatens to grow and spread, devouring everyone in its path.
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The Devil Pays Off
1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast J. Edward Bromberg · Osa Massen · William Wright · Margaret Tallichet
Plot Chris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the United States...
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Those Redheads from Seattle
1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast Rhonda Fleming · Gene Barry · Agnes Moorehead · Teresa Brewer
Plot A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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