Screenplay: Richard L. Breen

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard L. Breen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Foreign Affair

1948 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jean Arthur · Marlene Dietrich · John Lund · Millard Mitchell

Synopsis A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty, hears rumors that cafe singer Erika, former mistress of a wanted war criminal, is "protected" by an American officer, and...

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Synopsis This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Titanic

1953 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Wagner · Audrey Dalton

Synopsis Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

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

Synopsis 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. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turns life inside the ward...

6.2

320 votes

6.2

320 votes

The Model and the Marriage Broker

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Jeanne Crain · Scott Brady · Thelma Ritter · Zero Mostel

Synopsis Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life, by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course...

6.2

39 votes

6.2

39 votes

Tony Rome

1967 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Frank Sinatra · Jill St. John · Richard Conte · Sue Lyon

Synopsis The beautiful daughter of a wealthy industrialist turns up drunk and unconscious in a hotel room. To avoid a scandal the hotel house detective hires his former partner, private detective Tony Rome, to sober her up and escort her home....

6.1

422 votes

6.1

422 votes

Appointment with Danger

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Alan Ladd · Phyllis Calvert · Paul Stewart · Jan Sterling

Synopsis Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.

6.0

118 votes

6.0

118 votes

The FBI Story

1959 · Movie · 149 min. · United States

5.9

757 votes

5.9

757 votes

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jack Webb

Cast Jack Webb · Janet Leigh · Edmond O'Brien · Peggy Lee

Synopsis Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) came into possession of his precious trumpet, the film traces...

5.7

110 votes

5.7

110 votes

PT 109

1963 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Cliff Robertson · Ty Hardin · James Gregory · Robert Culp

Synopsis Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island,...

5.6

79 votes

5.6

79 votes

Seven Cities of Gold

1955 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Richard Egan · Anthony Quinn · Michael Rennie · Jeffrey Hunter

Synopsis In the eighteenth century, a Spanish expedition is looking for seven cities of gold in a territory now known as California. A very difficult task due the opposition of the aborigines, but perhaps a divine intervention could help the Spaniards...

5.4

84 votes

5.4

84 votes

5.0

55 votes

Do Not Disturb

1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

4.9

139 votes

4.9

139 votes

State Fair

1962 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction José Ferrer

Cast Pat Boone · Bobby Darin · Pamela Tiffin · Ann-Margret

Synopsis The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name. While the stage musical, 1933 and 1945 movie were set at the Iowa State Fair, this 1962 version was filmed in Dallas, Texas, where the...

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Dragnet 1966 (TV)

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Webb

Cast Jack Webb · Harry Morgan · Vic Perrin · Virginia Gregg

Synopsis Initially intended as a pilot for the Dragnet-1967 TV series, featuring L.A. police detective sgt. Joe Friday and his partners, but not aired until 1969.

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Not rated

Miss Tatlock's Millions

1948 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Richard Haydn

Cast John Lund · Wanda Hendrix · Barry Fitzgerald · Monty Woolley

Synopsis After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.

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Stopover Tokyo

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Breen

Cast Robert Wagner · Joan Collins · Edmond O'Brien · Ken Scott

Synopsis An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.

Not rated

Not rated

Dragnet

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jack Webb

Cast Jack Webb · Ben Alexander · Richard Boone · Ann Robinson

Synopsis Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.

Not rated

Not rated

Mary, Mary

1963 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Barry Nelson · Diane McBain · Hiram Sherman

Synopsis Nine months after they split up Bob and Mary meet at his New York apartment to sort out some tax matters. He's getting married to healthy-eating Tiffany as soon as the divorce becomes final, and she is attracted by fellow...

Not rated

Not rated