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
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Candice Bergen · Joan Hackett · Elizabeth Hartman · Shirley Knight
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...
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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.
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