Screenplay: Philip Rapp

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


Wonder Man

1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods

Synopsis Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back...

6.4

309 votes

6.4

309 votes

The Inspector General

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he...

5.7

371 votes

5.7

371 votes

Ain't Misbehavin'

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Rory Calhoun · Piper Laurie · Jack Carson · Mamie Van Doren

Synopsis Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

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Start Cheering

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Jimmy Durante · Walter Connolly · Joan Perry · Charles Starrett

Synopsis Film star Ted Crosley, fed up with movie life, quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name...

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Topper (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers · Paul Landres · Philip Rapp · Leslie Goodwins

Cast Anne Jeffreys · Robert Sterling · Leo G. Carroll · Buck

Synopsis TV Series (1953-1955). 2 seasons. 78 episodes. This series was about a somewhat grumpy and uptight banker, Cosmo Topper, and the ghosts which only he could see or hear, George and Marion Kerby. The Kerbys would often try to get...

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Wild and Wonderful

1964 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Tony Curtis · Christine Kaufmann · Larry Storch · Pierre Olaf

Synopsis Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.

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Strike Me Pink

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Merman · Sally Eilers · Harry Parke

Synopsis After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer.

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