Screenplay: Harry Ruskin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harry Ruskin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Lana Turner · John Garfield · Cecil Kellaway · Hume Cronyn
Plot Set during the Depression, this story concerns an older man and his attractive young wife, who take on drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) as an employee at their roadside cafe....
7.6
17K votes
7.6
17K votes
The Happy Years
1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Dean Stockwell · Darryl Hickman · Scotty Beckett · Margalo Gillmore
Plot Friends and family try to tame an unruly student at the turn of the century.
6.4
51 votes
6.4
51 votes
Six of a Kind
1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns
Plot The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase,...
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
King of Jazz
1930 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Murray Anderson
Cast Paul Whiteman · John Boles · Laura La Plante · Jeannette Loff
Plot King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation. Although using the word to describe...
6.1
28 votes
6.1
28 votes
Julia Misbehaves
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Peter Lawford · Elizabeth Taylor
Plot English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William...
6.1
30 votes
6.1
30 votes
Miracles for Sale
1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Robert Young · Florence Rice · Frank Craven · Henry Hull
Plot Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows. While his business is Miracles for Sale, his hobby is exposing fake spiritualists. At the club, he is invited...
5.9
101 votes
5.9
101 votes
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Maureen O'Hara · George Nader · Victor McLaglen · Rex Reason
Plot In 11th-century England, King Edward the Confessor wants saxon Lord Leofric to marry a despised Norman woman, and has him jailed when he refuses. In jail, he meets Godiva, the...
5.6
194 votes
5.6
194 votes
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Mickey Rooney · Lewis Stone · Sara Haden · Bonita Granville
Plot Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay...
5.0
32 votes
5.0
32 votes
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Van Johnson · Keye Luke · Alma Kruger
Plot When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier,...
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Shepperd Strudwick
Plot Young Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient.
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Two for Tonight
1935 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Bing Crosby · Joan Bennett · Lynne Overman · Mary Boland
Plot After a stunt where a plane hits the tree the singing son was sitting in, a hard-luck family of aspiring song writers gets to stay in a producer's house, trying...
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Van Johnson · Susan Peters · Richard Quine
Plot Dr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all...
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Samuel S. Hinds
Plot Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his...
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Watch the Birdie
1950 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Jack Donohue
Cast Red Skelton · Arlene Dahl · Ann Miller · Leon Ames
Plot "Rusty" Cammeron tries to get out of debt by doing some free-lance newsreel photography, but his efforts fall woefully short and end in some kind of mishap. Lucia Corlaine rescues...
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Young Dr. Kildare
1938 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Lew Ayres · Lynne Carver · Nat Pendleton
Plot Fresh out of medical school, young Dr. James Kildare decides to leave his father's country practice and take up a position at a large New York hospital. There he meets...
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Wilhelm Thiele
Cast Frank Morgan · Billie Burke · Ann Rutherford · John Shelton
Plot Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Wilhelm Thiele
Cast Frank Morgan · Florence Rice · John Beal · Janet Beecher
Plot A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
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Bad Guy
1937 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Edward L. Cahn
Cast Bruce Cabot · Virginia Grey · Edward Norris · Jean Chatburn
Plot "Lucky" Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly, when his sentence is commuted for an act...
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Between Two Women
1945 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Van Johnson · Lionel Barrymore · Gloria DeHaven · Keenan Wynn
Plot Red's still being chased by his rich society girlfriend, and while he's dodging her proposals of marriage, he takes the time to cure a nightclub singer of her inability to...
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The Girl in the Kremlin
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Russell Birdwell
Cast Lex Barker · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Jeffrey Stone · Maurice Manson
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