Screenplay: Arch Oboler
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arch Oboler. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 12
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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