Screenplay: Rupert Hughes

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rupert Hughes. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

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Souls for Sale

1923 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Rupert Hughes

Cast Eleanor Boardman · Frank Mayo · Richard Dix · Mae Busch

Plot A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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Tess of the Storm Country

1960 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Paul Guilfoyle

Cast Diane Baker · Jack Ging · Lee Philips · Archie Duncan

Plot Young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becomes embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.

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The Sea Beast

1926 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

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The President's Mystery

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Betty Furness · Sidney Blackmer · Evelyn Brent

Plot A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able...

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Johanna Enlists

1918 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William Desmond Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Anne Schaefer · Fred Huntley · Monte Blue

Plot A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

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She Goes to War

1929 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Eleanor Boardman · John Holland · Edmund Burns · Alma Rubens

Plot Young Joan disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancé, Tom, into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

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Tillie and Gus

1933 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Francis Martin

Cast W.C. Fields · Alison Skipworth · Baby LeRoy · Julie Bishop

Plot Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and...

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FBI Girl

1951 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast Cesar Romero · George Brent · Audrey Totter · Tom Drake

Plot A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he's a convicted murderer, and that will come to light...

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Ladies' Man

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Carole Lombard · Gilbert Emery

Plot A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."

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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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No One Man

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Corrigan

Cast Carole Lombard · Ricardo Cortez · Paul Lukas · Juliette Compton

Plot When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the...

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Tess of the Storm Country

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Dudley Digges · June Clyde

Plot When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the...

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The Patent Leather Kid

1927 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Molly O'Day · Lawford Davidson · Matthew Betz

Plot The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it...

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It Had to Happen

1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast George Raft · Rosalind Russell · Leo Carrillo · Arline Judge

Plot A poor boy rises to power in politics. When the banker husband of his secret love takes money and flees the country, he replaces the lost amount and becomes implicated...

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Come on Over

1922 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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