Movies by Writer - Dalton Trumbo (53 [Missing: 8]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Love Begins at TwentyHoratio Gillingwater, a hen-pecked husband of long standing, takes up boozing and begins to wear the family pants and take charge of family matters, including aiding the romance of his daughter, Lois, with Jerry Wayne. | 1936 | Frank McDonald | Comedy,Music,Romance | 6.2 (113 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Road GangJim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. The two suffer extreme cruelty due to the sadistic behavior of the warden and guards. | 1936 | Louis King | Drama | 6.3 (179 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Tugboat PrincessNA | 1936 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Devil's PlaygroundSubmarine officers Dorgan and Mason battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen. She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. | 1937 | Erle C. Kenton | Drama,Romance | 6.1 (153 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Fugitives for a NightAn actor in Hollywood is accused of murder and tries to figure his way out of it. | 1938 | Leslie Goodwins | Crime,Mystery,Romance | 6.1 (77 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Man to Remember, ADoctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby girl, Jean Johnson, whom he adopts into ... | 1938 | Garson Kanin | Drama,Romance | 7.0 (465 votes) | 79 | 20231109 |
CareerNA | 1939 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Five Came BackA plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals. | 1939 | John Farrow | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 7.1 (2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
The Flying IrishmanNA | 1939 | | Biography,Drama | | | Not Available |
Heaven with a Barbed Wire FenceNew York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona. | 1939 | Ricardo Cortez | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 6.3 (355 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Kid From Kokomo, TheA fight promoter finds his fighter, Wayne Morris, in the sticks, a country hick left by his mother when he was young and he won't leave his home as he is still waiting for her to return to him. promoter, Pat o'brien cons him into com | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Comedy,Romance | 6.3 (186 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Sorority HouseAnne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. She learns that joining a sorority is an essential thing at the school. Unfortunately her late admission means | 1939 | John Farrow | Drama,Romance | 5.9 (212 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
A Bill of DivorcementNA | 1940 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Curtain CallA naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star. | 1940 | Frank Woodruff | Comedy,Romance | 5.9 (182 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Half a SinnerAlthough young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspir | 1940 | Al Christie | Adventure,Comedy,Mystery | 6.3 (350 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
Kitty FoyleA hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family. | 1940 | Sam Wood | Drama,Romance | 6.9 (3.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Lone Wolf Strikes, TheDelia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires Michael Lanyard (aka The Lone Wolf), a retired-and-reformed jewel thief to find the killer and the jewels. He is more than glad to do so, as it is jus | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.6 (337 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
We Who Are YoungTwo young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is fired. This causes the newlyweds to face seri | 1940 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.0 (329 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Accent on LoveWealthy young man takes a job as a WPA ditch digger and falls for an immigrant girl and divorces his wife and tries to help the poor. | 1941 | Ray McCarey | Drama | 5.8 (38 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Accent on LoveNA | 1941 | | | | | Not Available |
You Belong to MeA jealous and insecure newlywed man interferes with his wife's medical work in order to prevent her from seeing attractive male patients. | 1941 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy,Romance | 6.0 (692 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Remarkable Andrew, TheWhen Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his troub | 1942 | Stuart Heisler | Comedy,Fantasy | 6.4 (169 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Guy Named Joe, AA dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's | 1943 | Victor Fleming | Drama,Fantasy,Romance | 7.0 (2.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Tender ComradeJo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. | 1943 | Edward Dmytryk | Drama,Romance,War | 6.2 (912 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoIn the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland. | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,History,War | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 138 | 20220414 |
JealousyThe wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but when her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new "friend" committed the m | 1945 | Gustav Machatý | Film-Noir,Mystery | 6.5 (199 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Our Vines Have Tender GrapesA Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin. | 1945 | Roy Rowland | Drama,Family | 7.6 (2.1K votes) | 105 | 20220531 |
Emergency WeddingIn this remake of 1941's "You Belong to Me," a young millionaire, Peter J. Kirk, Jr., fails in all of his attempts to emulate his successful father. He meets and marries Dr. Helen Hunt, who refuses to give up her profession, which al | 1950 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.0 (98 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Gun CrazyTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree. | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.6 (13K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
He Ran All the WayNick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manh | 1951 | John Berry | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Prowler, TheAfter Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way. | 1951 | Joseph Losey | Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Roman HolidayA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. | 1953 | William Wyler | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 8.0 (135.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Boss, ThePolitical corruption is vividly depicted as a ruthless WWI veteran takes almost complete control of a state with the help of a crooked lawyer. The film is enhanced by John Payne's persuasive performance as "The Boss." | 1956 | Byron Haskin | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.4 (291 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Brave One, TheA young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador. | 1956 | Irving Rapper | Drama,Family | 6.6 (878 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Green-Eyed Blonde, TheReform school girls try to make the best of a bad situation. | 1957 | Bernard Girard | Crime,Drama | 5.7 (239 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
CowboyAn idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected. | 1958 | Delmer Daves | Drama,Western | 6.7 (3.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Terror In A Texas TownA Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land. | 1958 | Joseph H. Lewis | Western | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
CareerMore than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal? | 1959 | Joseph Anthony | Drama | 6.9 (637 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
ExodusThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. | 1960 | Otto Preminger | Action,Drama,War | 6.7 (9.6K votes) | 208 | 20211228 |
SpartacusThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising. | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | Adventure,Biography,Drama | 7.9 (131.8K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
Last Sunset, TheAt a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things. | 1961 | Robert Aldrich | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.7 (3.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Lonely are the BraveA fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend. | 1962 | David Miller | Drama,Western | 7.6 (8.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Sandpiper, TheA free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California. | 1965 | Vincente Minnelli | Drama,Romance | 6.3 (3.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
HawaiiAn American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy. | 1966 | George Roy Hill | Drama | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
Fixer, TheIn Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime. | 1968 | John Frankenheimer | Drama | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
Horsemen, TheDrama depicting rural life in contemporary Afghanistan and the Afghani people's love for an ancient traditional sport similar to horseback polo. | 1971 | John Frankenheimer | Action,Adventure,Drama | 6.2 (1.2K votes) | 109 | 20221228 |
Johnny Got His GunDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life. | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | Drama,War | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Executive ActionRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination. | 1973 | David Miller | Crime,Drama,History | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
PapillonA French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Biography,Crime,Drama | 8.0 (127.8K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
Ishi: The Last of His TribeNA | 1978 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Roman HolidayNA | 1987 | | Comedy,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
AlwaysThe spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind. | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | Drama,Fantasy,Romance | 6.4 (29.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
Johnny Got His GunNA | 2008 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
PapillonWrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. | 2017 | Michael Noer | Adventure,Biography,Crime | 7.2 (72.1K votes) | 133 | 20220415 |