Screenplay: Arch Oboler

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


Escape

1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Five

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast William Phipps · James Anderson · Susan Douglas Rubes · Earl Lee

Synopsis Five people are miraculously spared when the fall-out from a super-atomic bomb eventually kills all of the rest of humanity on earth. They are Roseanne Rogers, a pregnant woman who was in an ex-ray room; Michael, a sensitive young poet...

6.1

157 votes

6.1

157 votes

On Our Merry Way

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Synopsis Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child ever changed your life?" In the first episode Henry Fonda...

5.7

524 votes

5.7

524 votes

Christmas Dove (TV)

1986 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast Loretta Young · Arthur Hill · Ron Leibman · Trevor Howard

Synopsis An elderly, wealthy woman who uses her wealth to help the less fortunate, decides not to give her son controlling interest in the business. That's when he decides to have declared incompetent. She also learns that she's dying. She then...

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The Twonky

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Hans Conried · Janet Warren · William H. Lynn · Edwin Max

Synopsis The last thing College Lit Professor Cary West wants, while is wife is out of town, is a TV set to keep him company; but that's just what wife Carolyn has bought for him. He is relieved when the serviceman...

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Strange Holiday

1945 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Claude Rains · Bob Stebbins · Barbara Bate · Paul Hilton

Synopsis Businessman John Stevenson returns from a camping holiday in the mountains to discover the whole of America has been taken over by foreign invaders. His family has been taken away and he is thrown into prison and must come to...

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Domo Arigato

1990 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Bonnie Sher · Jason Ledger · Kyoko Masu · Hiroshi Murakawa

Synopsis A young college student and a former G.I. on his way home from a tour in Viet Nam meet in Japan and decide to explore the country together.

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Gangway for Tomorrow

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Margo · John Carradine · Robert Ryan · Amelita Ward

Synopsis On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.

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Bwana Devil

1952 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Robert Stack · Barbara Britton · Nigel Bruce · Ramsay Hill

Synopsis British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

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The Arnelo Affair

1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast John Hodiak · George Murphy · Frances Gifford · Dean Stockwell

Synopsis Anne Parkson feels neglected by her lawyer-husband Ted, so she falls in love with night-club owner Tony Arnello, a shady character who is a client of her husband's. This being a MGM picture and MGM known to strive for General...

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The Bubble

1966 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Michael Cole · Deborah Walley · Johnny Desmond · Kassie McMahon

Synopsis Mysterious atmospheric effects force a pregnant woman and her husband to land their airplane in a remote town whose inhabitants behave zombie-like, repeating the same movements and sentences over and over. As the mystery unfolds the two find themselves trapped...

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Bewitched

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Arch Oboler

Cast Phyllis Thaxter · Edmund Gwenn · Henry H. Daniels Jr. · Addison Richards

Synopsis At her engagement party, Joan Ellis, your typical girl next door, acknowledges that the strange voice that she's heard all her life is coming from within herself. Joan's alter ego, a conniving and murderous woman named Karen, is becoming stronger...

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