Screenplay: Leo Rosten

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


Sleep, My Love

1948 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Cummings · Don Ameche · Rita Johnson

Plot Wealthy Sutton Place housewife Alison Courtland wakes up screaming on a train that left New York's Grand Central Station for Boston. The doctor who treats her on the train says...

6.6

804 votes

6.6

804 votes

The Velvet Touch

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gage

Cast Rosalind Russell · Leo Genn · Claire Trevor · Sydney Greenstreet

Plot Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal...

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

The Conspirators

1944 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre

Plot Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's...

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

Lured

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Lucille Ball · Charles Coburn · Boris Karloff

Plot Before being forever associated with melodrama, acclaimed director Douglas Sirk dabbled in other genres. LURED, a good example of this, is a witty and stylish thriller about a serial killer...

6.4

824 votes

6.4

824 votes

All Through the Night

1941 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Conrad Veidt · Kaaren Verne · Jane Darwell

Plot Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty's partner Joe...

6.4

425 votes

6.4

425 votes

Mister Cory

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Martha Hyer · Charles Bickford · Kathryn Grant

Plot Cory, an ambitious Chicago slum kid with a knack for gambling, gets a busboy job at a posh Wisconsin resort...

6.2

113 votes

6.2

113 votes

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Gregory Peck · Tony Curtis · Angie Dickinson · Eddie Albert

Plot Dr. Josiah Newman runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz to work in his ward....

6.2

320 votes

6.2

320 votes

Double Dynamite

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Jane Russell · Groucho Marx · Frank Sinatra · Don McGuire

Plot Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious...

5.5

97 votes

5.5

97 votes

They Got Me Covered

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Lenore Aubert · Otto Preminger

Plot Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry...

Not rated

Not rated

Walk East on Beacon!

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast George Murphy · Finlay Currie · Virginia Gilmore · Karel Stepanek

Plot A G-man searches for a communist sleeper-cell in Boston.

Not rated

Not rated