Screenplay: Peter Ruric
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Peter Ruric. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Black Cat
1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop
Plot The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier
Plot In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach...
6.1
85 votes
6.1
85 votes
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed
Plot When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Richard Dix · Lucille Ball · Allan Lane · Donald MacBride
Plot When the brother of his girlfriend Paula Sanders is accused of murder, reporter Nick Green tries to clear him. He suspects gangster George Costain of the crime. Nick steals a...
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Grand Central Murder
1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Van Heflin · Patricia Dane · Cecilia Parker · Virginia Grey
Plot A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend on the phone. She flees for her new beau's private railcar at the same...
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Jericho
1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Paul Robeson · Henry Wilcoxon · Wallace Ford · Kouka
Plot During the Great War, a Negro corporal, Jericho Jackson, disobeys an order and saves crewmen trapped below deck after an attack. A sergeant dies in the incident; Jackson is court-martialed...
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Alias a Gentleman
1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast Wallace Beery · Tom Drake · Dorothy Patrick · Gladys George
Plot A convict is finishing a ten-year prison sentence, during which time he has studied to become a gentleman and intends to go straight. But his former partner, believing he is...
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