Screenplay: Richard L. Breen
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Richard L. Breen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 23
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
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast James Stewart · Vera Miles · Murray Hamilton · Nick Adams
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
A Man Could Get Killed
1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Ronald Neame · Cliff Owen
Cast James Garner · Melina Mercouri · Sandra Dee · Anthony Franciosa
5.0
55 votes
5.0
55 votes
Do Not Disturb
1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Levy
Cast Doris Day · Rod Taylor · Hermione Baddeley · Sergio Fantoni
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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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.
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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.
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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...
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