Screenplay: Richard Collins

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


Riot in Cell Block 11

1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Neville Brand · Emile Meyer · Frank Faylen · Leo Gordon

Plot Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film...

6.7

341 votes

6.7

341 votes

Remington Steele (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gleason · Robert Butler · Seymour Robbie · Don Weis

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Stephanie Zimbalist · Doris Roberts · James Read

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 5 Seasons. 94 Episodes. When Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a beautiful young private detective begins her own business (Laura Holt investigations), she soon discovers that no one...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

The Badlanders

1958 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Alan Ladd · Ernest Borgnine · Katy Jurado · Anthony Caruso

Plot Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small...

6.1

453 votes

6.1

453 votes

China Venture

1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Barry Sullivan · Jocelyn Brando · Leo Gordon

Plot An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese...

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Edge of Eternity

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Cornel Wilde · Victoria Shaw · Mickey Shaughnessy · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

One Crowded Night

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Billie Seward · William Haade · Charles Lang Jr. · Pamela Blake

Plot Crucial events in the lives of many people occur on the same night in the same place.

5.6

30 votes

5.6

30 votes

Daniel Boone (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

5.6

219 votes

5.6

219 votes

My Gun Is Quick

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Phil Victor · George White

Cast Robert Bray · Whitney Blake · Patricia Donahue · Donald Randolph

Plot A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the...

5.3

28 votes

5.3

28 votes

Cult of the Cobra

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Francis D. Lyon

Cast Faith Domergue · Richard Long · Marshall Thompson · Kathleen Hughes

Plot American G.I.'s who trespass in on a forbidden Hindu ceremony are relentlessly hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to metamorphoses into a snake.

5.1

43 votes

5.1

43 votes

Thousands Cheer

1943 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Gene Kelly · Mary Astor · John Boles

Plot Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval...

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Joyce Burditt · Christian I. Nyby II · Christopher Hibler · Frank Thackery

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Barry Van Dyke · Victoria Rowell · Charlie Schlatter

Plot TV Series (1993-2001). 8 Seasons. 178 Episodes. Mark Sloan is the chief of staff at Commmunity General Hospital. Even though his duties as a doctor keep him busy enough, he...

5.0

3K votes

5.0

3K votes

The Adventures of Hajji Baba

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast John Derek · Elaine Stewart · Thomas Gomez · Amanda Blake

Plot In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her...

4.9

100 votes

4.9

100 votes

Lady Scarface

1941 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Frank Woodruff

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Judith Anderson · Frances E. Neal · Mildred Coles

Plot Police try to capture a murderous female gangster and her band of killers.

4.8

30 votes

4.8

30 votes

Spanish Affair

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Richard Kiley · Carmen Sevilla · José Guardiola · José Nieto

Plot Merritt Blake (Richard Kiley) is an architect from the United States who is invited to work on a project in Spain. Since he cannot speak Spanish, Blake is in need...

4.1

97 votes

4.1

97 votes

Kiss of Fire

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Jack Palance · Barbara Rush · Rex Reason · Martha Hyer

Plot In 1700, news that the king of Spain is dying comes to the Spanish outpost in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For some reason, lovely Princess Lucia, the preferred heir, is...

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Pay or Die

1960 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wilson

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Zohra Lampert · Alan Austin · Renata Vanni

Plot Movie deals with organized crime "protection" rackets. Small shopkeepers are forced to pay for protection or else be brutalized or killed.

Not rated

Not rated

The Bob Mathias Story

1954 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Francis D. Lyon

Cast Bob Mathias · Ward Bond · Melba Mathias · Howard Petrie

Plot California school boy and Stanford University student Bob Mathias was the first man to win two Olympic Gold Medals in the Decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. The film...

Not rated

Not rated

Song of Russia

1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

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Not rated

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV)

1981 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Alf Kjellin · Arnold Laven

Cast Ron Harper · Booth Colman · Roddy McDowall · James Naughton

Plot The human being that survive in the Planet of the Apes are treated as slaves by the apes. When Virdin, a free man, fall healed, he's hospitalized by the apes,...

Not rated

Not rated

Studio 57 (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis

Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong

Plot This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

Not rated

Not rated