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

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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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