Writing

John McGreevey

Born — Died

1922-12-21 — 2010-12-21

Place of birth

Logansport, Indiana, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Night Crossing poster
6.1

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Night Crossing

1982

Little Mo poster
7.3

Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little Mo," and died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.

Little Mo

1978

Cast a Long Shadow poster
6.6

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Cast a Long Shadow

1959

The Death of Richie poster
7.0

A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

The Death of Richie

1977

Hello Down There poster
5.9

Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!

Hello Down There

1969

The New Adventures of Heidi poster
5.0

The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.

The New Adventures of Heidi

1978

The Disappearance of Aimee poster
8.7

In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.

The Disappearance of Aimee

1976

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland poster
5.3

Based on the actual events of the 1991 brush fires that swept across Northern California, which left countless people without homes. A rookie fire chief, who just started his new job, must deal with the raging fires.

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland

1993

Unabomber: The True Story poster
6.1

The real story behind the hunt for Theodore J. Kaczynski, later known as the Unabomber, a terrorist who sent several bombs through the mail, alarming authorities and society. The movie follows a postal inspector who tracks down the suspect; a obstinate detective; and Kaczynski's brother, who suspected of Ted after the publishing of his manifesto explaining the reasons for the bombings.

Unabomber: The True Story

1996

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes poster
6.2

The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.

Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

1990

Born Free: A New Adventure poster
6.4

Another thrilling adventure for Elsa the lioness as she works her magic on two teenagers struggling with changes in their life.

Born Free: A New Adventure

1996

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story poster
4.0

Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

1982

Punch and Jody poster
9.0

When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?

Punch and Jody

1974

Ruby and Oswald poster
8.0

The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ruby and Oswald

1978

Embassy poster
4.0

US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.

Embassy

1985

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant poster
4.0

A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

1970

Ms. Scrooge poster
5.8

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

Ms. Scrooge

1997

Gidget Gets Married poster
6.3

Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.

Gidget Gets Married

1972

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. poster
9.0

Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

1984

Walt Disney: One Man's Dream poster
NR

Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.

Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

1981

Crowhaven Farm poster
5.9

A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.

Crowhaven Farm

1970

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac poster
5.2

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follows the main players throughout the day, with a lot of care taken to re-create what actually went wrong, who died, and who survived. There is a lot of actual footage from the day, as well as accurate representations of aircraft type and airline.

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac

1984

Gidget Grows Up poster
6.7

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

Gidget Grows Up

1969

Hot Rod Girl poster
4.6

After his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title--and he's already taken his girlfriend.When his younger brother, Steve, is killed racing a hot-rod, Jeff Northup blames himself for the accident since he had built the car for his brother and had encouraged him to race it, with other boys on a special course provided by police detective Ben Merrill, who is working to reduce the city's hot-rod fatalities by providing supervision for the dangerous hobby. Jeff withdraws from participating in races on Merrill's course and, without his leadership, reverts to racing on the streets. "Bronc" Talbott, a newcomer, makes a play for Jeff's girlfriend, Lisa Vernon. Eventually, the taunting-Talbott forces Jeff into a race which results in the death of a bicycling child, and evidence seems to indicate Jeff was at fault.

Hot Rod Girl

1956

Aurora poster
7.1

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.

Aurora

1984

Rainbow poster
10.0

The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie studio system that held her back while her mother was forever pushing her to excel.

Rainbow

1978

A Time to Live poster
8.0

The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.

A Time to Live

1985

Death in Small Doses poster
5.1

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Death in Small Doses

1957

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force poster
4.4

The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

1978

The Millionaire poster
8.0

Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.

The Millionaire

1978

The Woman I Love poster
7.0

The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.

The Woman I Love

1972

Returning Home poster
6.5

The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life.

Returning Home

1975

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John poster
NR

During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

1973

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NR

In 1887 France, a mother is starting to become worried about her young son. He has a recurring dream in which he looks for his dead father. His mother gets worried even more when he tells her that he has met a wealthy nobleman who wants to take him aboard ship for a trip to the West Indies.

The Dream

1956

The Beast of Budapest poster
8.0

Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.

The Beast of Budapest

1958

The Runaways poster
8.0

A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which has escaped from a wild-animal compound during a lightning storm.

The Runaways

1975

American Caesar poster
10.0

Documentary of Douglas MacArthur

American Caesar

1983