Screenplay: Sidney Buchman

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


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Claude Rains · Edward Arnold

Plot Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential...

7.8

12K votes

7.8

12K votes

Holiday

1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan

Plot Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business,...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Cleopatra

1963 · Movie · 243 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Plot In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and,...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Talk of the Town

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Ronald Colman · Edgar Buchanan

Plot When accused arsonist Leopold Dilg escapes jail, he hides out in the home of old friend (and sweetheart) Nora. Nora happens to be renting a farmhouse to Supreme Court candidate...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Mark

1961 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Stuart Whitman · Maria Schell · Rod Steiger · Brenda De Banzie

Plot A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist. This is the story of...

6.9

23 votes

6.9

23 votes

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Robert Montgomery · Evelyn Keyes · Claude Rains · Rita Johnson

Plot Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's...

6.8

503 votes

6.8

503 votes

The Sign of the Cross

1932 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Claudette Colbert · Elissa Landi

Plot After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are...

6.8

540 votes

6.8

540 votes

She Married Her Boss

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Claudette Colbert · Melvyn Douglas · Michael Bartlett · Raymond Walburn

Plot A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a...

6.8

196 votes

6.8

196 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

A Song to Remember

1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Paul Muni · Merle Oberon · Cornel Wilde · Stephen Bekassy

Plot Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor,...

6.5

266 votes

6.5

266 votes

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Irene Dunne · Melvyn Douglas · Thomas Mitchell · Thurston Hall

Plot The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

Adventure in Manhattan

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Jean Arthur · Joel McCrea · Reginald Owen · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him. It turns out the financier of her...

5.9

37 votes

5.9

37 votes

The Group

1966 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

5.8

175 votes

5.8

175 votes

The Howards of Virginia

1940 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Cary Grant · Martha Scott · Cedric Hardwicke · Alan Marshal

Plot Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was no exception, despite the presence of Cary Grant in the...

5.6

57 votes

5.6

57 votes

The House Under the Trees

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Faye Dunaway · Frank Langella · Barbara Parkins · Karen Blanguernon

Plot Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disapear mysteriously and seem to...

5.2

119 votes

5.2

119 votes

His Greatest Gamble

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Richard Dix · Dorothy Wilson · Bruce Cabot · Erin O'Brien-Moore

Plot A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

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Thunder Below

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Bickford · Paul Lukas · Eugene Pallette

Plot Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field....

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The Jolson Story

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Larry Parks · Evelyn Keyes · William Demarest · Bill Goodwin

Plot This entertaining biography traces the life of the one-of-a-kind performer, Al Jolson (Larry Parks). Jolson, a cantor's son, rose from his humble background to become first a vaudeville performer, and...

Not rated

Not rated

Jolson Sings Again

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Larry Parks · Barbara Hale · William Demarest · Ludwig Donath

Plot In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left...

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Love Me Forever

1935 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Grace Moore · Leo Carrillo · Robert Allen · Spring Byington

Plot A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

Not rated

Not rated