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...
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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.
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