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

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