Screenplay: George Worthing Yates

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by George Worthing Yates. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

5.4

53 votes

5.4

53 votes

Conquest of Space

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated