Screenplay: Harry Ruskin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Harry Ruskin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
This Time for Keeps
1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Ann Rutherford · Robert Sterling · Guy Kibbee · Irene Rich
Plot Lee White, recently married to Katherine Bryant, eyes a vacation from marital responsibilities when Katherine goes out of town to attend a friend's wedding. But he soon becomes bored and...
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Anne Ayars · Robert Sterling
Plot Dr. Jimmy Kildare is back at work at Blair General hospital, though several people admit that he is not himself since suffering his loss. He's taken a liking to a...
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Barbary Coast Gent
1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Wallace Beery · Binnie Barnes · John Carradine · Bruce Kellogg
Plot Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a...
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The People vs. Dr. Kildare
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Bonita Granville
Plot Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can't walk, and she tries to sue...
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Married Before Breakfast
1937 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Robert Young · Florence Rice · June Clayworth · Barnett Parker
Plot After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to...
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Tenth Avenue Angel
1948 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Margaret O'Brien · Angela Lansbury · George Murphy · Phyllis Thaxter
Plot Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Lewis Stone · Mickey Rooney · Fay Holden · Sara Haden
Plot Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees...
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Keeping Company
1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Frank Morgan · Ann Rutherford · John Shelton · Irene Rich
Plot A real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage.
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Rumba
1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Marion Gering
Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Margo · Lynne Overman
Plot A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
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The Penalty
1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Edward Arnold · Lionel Barrymore · Marsha Hunt · Robert Sterling
Plot The son of a murderer is entangled in his father's crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life.
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The Hidden Eye
1945 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Richard Whorf
Cast Edward Arnold · Frances Rafferty · Ray Collins · Paul Langton
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Dark Delusion
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Lionel Barrymore · James Craig · Lucille Bremer · Jayne Meadows
Plot Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while...
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3 Men in White
1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Willis Goldbeck
Cast Van Johnson · Lionel Barrymore · Marilyn Maxwell · Keye Luke
Plot Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl...
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Lost in a Harem
1944 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Marilyn Maxwell · John Conte
Plot Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha, help disenfranchised young Prince Ramo regain his throne from his devious Uncle...
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Paradise for Three
1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Robert Young · Frank Morgan · Mary Astor · Florence Rice
Plot A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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Tish
1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon
Cast Marjorie Main · ZaSu Pitts · Aline MacMahon · Susan Peters
Plot The town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
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Love Is a Headache
1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Gladys George · Franchot Tone · Ted Healy · Mickey Rooney
Plot A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans.
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The Chaser
1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Ann Morriss · Lewis Stone · Nat Pendleton
Plot Love trips up an ambulance-chasing lawyer.
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Red Skelton
Plot It is a week before Dr. Kildare's wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. The hospital is a-buzz with preparation for the big day. And good old Dr. Gillespie, despite fatigue,...
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Philip Dorn · Donna Reed · Phil Brown
Plot Dr. Gillespie is contacted by his old friend Emma Hope, headmistress of a prestigious girls school. She's concerned about Roy Todwell, the young man one of her girls, Marcia Bradburn,...
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