Movie List for "screenplay"

Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)

Italian-American mafioso Carmine Ganucci evicts Miss Poole and her school of etiquette from the commercial building he has just purchased, the space which he wants for one of his own … Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Cy Howard
Writer: Evan Hunter (novel), Cy Howard (screenplay), Jonathan Axelrod (screenplay), Robert Klane (screenplay)
Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand, Margaret Blye

The Doberman Gang (1972)

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them. Year 1972.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Byron Chudnow
Writer: Louis Garfinkle (original story and screenplay), Frank Ray Perilli (original story and screenplay)
Actors: Byron Mabe, Hal Reed, Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow

The Cowboys (1972)

Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of cattle rustlers is trailing them. Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: Mark Rydell
Writer: William Dale Jennings (novel), Irving Ravetch (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), William Dale Jennings (screenplay)
Actors: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst

Dirty Little Billy (1972)

A more realistic, based-on-reality, unsensationalistic portrayal of the gritty early years of one of the most famous Wild West outlaws in history, Billy The Kid. Year 1972.

Generes: Western
Director: Stan Dragoti
Writer: Charles Moss (story), Stan Dragoti (story), Charles Moss (screenplay), Stan Dragoti (screenplay)
Actors: Michael J. Pollard, Richard Evans, Lee Purcell, Charles Aidman

Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)

Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black … Year 1972.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Mark Warren
Writer: Chester Himes (based on a novel by), Ernest Kinoy (screenplay), Peggy Elliott (screenplay)
Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter De Anda, Percy Rodrigues

The Love Pill (1972)

A man discovers a candy can also be used as an aphrodisiac–and a contraceptive. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Laurence Barnett (screenplay), Jesner (screenplay), John Lindsay (story), Ken Turner (screenplay)
Actors: Henry Woolf, Toni Sinclair, David Pugh, Mel Churcher

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent
Writer: Ernest Kinoy (screenplay), Ernest Kinoy (story), Drake Walker (story)
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell

Butterflies Are Free (1972)

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Milton Katselas
Writer: Leonard Gershe (screenplay), Leonard Gershe (play)
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. Year 1972.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Ben L. Reitman (book), Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay), John William Corrington (screenplay)
Actors: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)

John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and … Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Michael Powell
Writer: Emeric Pressburger (original story), Emeric Pressburger (screenplay)
Actors: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth

For the Love of Ada (1972)

Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Romance
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Writer: Harry Driver (screenplay), Vince Powell (screenplay)
Actors: Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst

Blacula (1972)

An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles. Year 1972.

Generes: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director: William Crain
Writer: Joan Torres (screenplay), Raymond Koenig (screenplay)
Actors: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala

The Godfather (1972)

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Year 1972.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Mario Puzo (screenplay by), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay by), Mario Puzo (based on the novel by)
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano

Cry of the Penguins (1971)

Womanizing biologist studies life in colony of penguins. Year 1971.

Generes: Adventure, Drama
Director: Alfred Viola, Roy Boulting
Writer: Anthony Shaffer (screenplay), Graham Billing (novel)
Actors: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton

Chhoti Bahu (1971)

Radha lives with her widowed dad and is of marriageable age. Accordingly her details her provided to a marriage-broker, Avtar, who also doubles as a Ved (Village Doctor). He brings the … Year 1971.

Generes: Drama, Family
Director: K.B. Tilak
Writer: Vishwamitter Adil (screenplay & dialogues), Kaifi Azmi (lyrics), Saratchandra Chatterjee (story), Udhav Kumar (lyrics)
Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood Jr.

THX 1138 (1971)

In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society. Year 1971.

Generes: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas (story by), George Lucas (screenplay by), Walter Murch (screenplay by)
Actors: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie