Casey Robinson

Writing

Casey Robinson

Born 1903-10-17

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Now, Voyager poster
7.4

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Now, Voyager

1942

Diplomatic Courier poster
6.2

During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact turns up dead, and the message is nowhere to be found. With no clear suspect in sight, Kells must sort through his uncertain relationships with two women, while sidestepping the pitfalls of subterfuge, sabotage and spies in his search for the documents.

Diplomatic Courier

1952

Diplomatic Courier poster
6.2

During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact turns up dead, and the message is nowhere to be found. With no clear suspect in sight, Kells must sort through his uncertain relationships with two women, while sidestepping the pitfalls of subterfuge, sabotage and spies in his search for the documents.

Diplomatic Courier

1952

Captain Blood poster
7.2

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Captain Blood

1935

Million Dollar Baby poster
6.3

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Million Dollar Baby

1941

The Egyptian poster
6.5

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.

The Egyptian

1954

All This, and Heaven Too poster
7.3

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess as the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow.

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

Kings Row poster
7.3

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Kings Row

1942

Passage to Marseille poster
6.6

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

Passage to Marseille

1944

The Old Maid poster
7.0

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

The Old Maid

1939

The Snows of Kilimanjaro poster
5.9

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952

Dark Victory poster
6.9

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

Dark Victory

1939

The Mating of Millie poster
6.9

Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan Tommy Bassett, but learns that she will first have to have a husband, Millie turns to a recently fired bus driver, Doug Andrews. Though he has no interest in marriage, Doug offers to help Millie find a husband by transforming her into a beautiful and exciting woman, one who catches the eye of two eligible bachelors, including the orphanage's president.

The Mating of Millie

1948

Waterfront poster
8.0

Waterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by First National Pictures. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, then a popular duo under the First National banner.

Waterfront

1928

The Corn Is Green poster
7.2

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

The Corn Is Green

1945

Two Flags West poster
6.2

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

Two Flags West

1950

Two Flags West poster
6.2

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

Two Flags West

1950

I Found Stella Parish poster
7.3

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

I Found Stella Parish

1935

While the City Sleeps poster
6.9

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

While the City Sleeps

1956

Call It a Day poster
7.0

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

Call It a Day

1937

Days of Glory poster
5.9

A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.

Days of Glory

1944

Days of Glory poster
5.9

A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.

Days of Glory

1944

One Foot in Heaven poster
6.9

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

One Foot in Heaven

1941

The Macomber Affair poster
6.8

A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

The Macomber Affair

1947