Movie Database

Movies by Writer - Dalton Trumbo (53 [Missing: 8])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
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.1936Frank McDonaldComedy,Music,Romance6.2 (113 votes)5820211228
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.1936Louis KingDrama6.3 (179 votes)6120211228
Tugboat PrincessNA1936 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.1937Erle C. KentonDrama,Romance6.1 (153 votes)7420211228
Fugitives for a NightAn actor in Hollywood is accused of murder and tries to figure his way out of it.1938Leslie GoodwinsCrime,Mystery,Romance6.1 (77 votes)6320211228
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 ...1938Garson KaninDrama,Romance7.0 (465 votes)7920231109
CareerNA1939 Drama Not Available
Five Came BackA plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.1939John FarrowAdventure,Drama,Romance7.1 (2K votes)7520211228
The Flying IrishmanNA1939 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.1939Ricardo CortezAdventure,Drama,Romance6.3 (355 votes)6220211228
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 com1939Lewis SeilerComedy,Romance6.3 (186 votes)9320211228
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 means1939John FarrowDrama,Romance5.9 (212 votes)6420211228
A Bill of DivorcementNA1940 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.1940Frank WoodruffComedy,Romance5.9 (182 votes)6320211228
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 inspir1940Al ChristieAdventure,Comedy,Mystery6.3 (350 votes)5920211228
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.1940Sam WoodDrama,Romance6.9 (3.6K votes)10820211228
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 jus1940Sidney SalkowComedy,Crime,Drama6.6 (337 votes)6720211228
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 seri1940Harold S. BucquetDrama,Mystery,Romance6.0 (329 votes)8020211228
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.1941Ray McCareyDrama5.8 (38 votes)6120211228
Accent on LoveNA1941 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.1941Wesley RugglesComedy,Romance6.0 (692 votes)9420211228
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 troub1942Stuart HeislerComedy,Fantasy6.4 (169 votes)8120211228
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 1943Victor FlemingDrama,Fantasy,Romance7.0 (2.5K votes)12020211228
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.1943Edward DmytrykDrama,Romance,War6.2 (912 votes)10220211228
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.1944Mervyn LeRoyDrama,History,War7.2 (5.8K votes)13820220414
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 m1945Gustav MachatýFilm-Noir,Mystery6.5 (199 votes)7120211228
Our Vines Have Tender GrapesA Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.1945Roy RowlandDrama,Family7.6 (2.1K votes)10520220531
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 al1950Edward BuzzellComedy,Drama,Romance6.0 (98 votes)7820211228
Gun CrazyTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.1950Joseph H. LewisCrime,Drama,Film-Noir7.6 (13K votes)8720211228
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 manh1951John BerryCrime,Drama,Film-Noir7.0 (2.4K votes)7720211228
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.1951Joseph LoseyDrama,Film-Noir,Thriller7.2 (3.4K votes)9220211228
Roman HolidayA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.1953William WylerComedy,Drama,Romance8.0 (135.2K votes)11820211228
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."1956Byron HaskinCrime,Drama,Film-Noir6.4 (291 votes)8920211228
Brave One, TheA young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.1956Irving RapperDrama,Family6.6 (878 votes)10020211228
Green-Eyed Blonde, TheReform school girls try to make the best of a bad situation.1957Bernard GirardCrime,Drama5.7 (239 votes)7620211228
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.1958Delmer DavesDrama,Western6.7 (3.1K votes)9220211228
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.1958Joseph H. LewisWestern6.8 (2.1K votes)8020211228
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?1959Joseph AnthonyDrama6.9 (637 votes)10520211228
ExodusThe State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.1960Otto PremingerAction,Drama,War6.7 (9.6K votes)20820211228
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.1960Stanley KubrickAdventure,Biography,Drama7.9 (131.8K votes)19720211228
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.1961Robert AldrichDrama,Romance,Western6.7 (3.1K votes)11220211228
Lonely are the BraveA fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.1962David MillerDrama,Western7.6 (8.9K votes)10720211228
Sandpiper, TheA free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.1965Vincente MinnelliDrama,Romance6.3 (3.3K votes)11720211228
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.1966George Roy HillDrama6.6 (3.1K votes)18920211228
Fixer, TheIn Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.1968John FrankenheimerDrama6.8 (1.3K votes)13220211228
Horsemen, TheDrama depicting rural life in contemporary Afghanistan and the Afghani people's love for an ancient traditional sport similar to horseback polo.1971John FrankenheimerAction,Adventure,Drama6.2 (1.2K votes)10920221228
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.1971Dalton TrumboDrama,War7.9 (16.5K votes)11120211228
Executive ActionRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.1973David MillerCrime,Drama,History6.7 (2.7K votes)9120211228
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.1973Franklin J. SchaffnerBiography,Crime,Drama8.0 (127.8K votes)15120211228
Ishi: The Last of His TribeNA1978 Drama Not Available
Roman HolidayNA1987 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.1989Steven SpielbergDrama,Fantasy,Romance6.4 (29.5K votes)12220211228
Johnny Got His GunNA2008 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.2017Michael NoerAdventure,Biography,Crime7.2 (72.1K votes)13320220415