Screenplay: Robert Riskin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert Riskin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 31
You Can't Take it With You
1938 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold
Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father...
8.1
8K votes
8.1
8K votes
It Happened One Night
1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns
Synopsis When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across...
7.9
16K votes
7.9
16K votes
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander
Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur)....
7.7
4K votes
7.7
4K votes
Meet John Doe
1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan
Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
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Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange
Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
Lost Horizon
1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton
Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Lady for a Day
1933 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell
Synopsis Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
American Madness
1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Walter Huston · Pat O'Brien · Kay Johnson · Constance Cummings
Synopsis It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign....
7.1
564 votes
7.1
564 votes
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The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron
Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything...
6.8
521 votes
6.8
521 votes
The Miracle Woman
1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · David Manners · Sam Hardy · Beryl Mercer
Synopsis Stanwyck's particularly fine as evangelist Florence "Faith" Fallon, who becomes very successful thanks to her way with words, some fake miracles, and the talents of...
6.7
318 votes
6.7
318 votes
Mister 880
1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding
Cast Burt Lancaster · Dorothy McGuire · Edmund Gwenn · Millard Mitchell
Synopsis The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish...
6.6
289 votes
6.6
289 votes
Broadway Bill
1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson
Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill...
6.5
294 votes
6.5
294 votes
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The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gloria DeHaven · Lucile Watson
Synopsis Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always...
6.3
125 votes
6.3
125 votes
Virtue
1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Carole Lombard · Pat O'Brien · Ward Bond · Shirley Grey
Synopsis A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but...
6.2
23 votes
6.2
23 votes
Riding High
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Bing Crosby · Coleen Gray · Charles Bickford · Frances Gifford
Synopsis RIDING HIGH is Frank Capra's remake of his own 1934 film Broadway Bill (AKA Strictly Confidential), in which romance and comedy play out against the...
6.1
73 votes
6.1
73 votes
Here Comes the Groom
1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Franchot Tone · Alexis Smith
Synopsis Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones...
6.0
247 votes
6.0
247 votes
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Magic Town
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast James Stewart · Jane Wyman · Kent Smith · Ned Sparks
Synopsis Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his...
6.0
474 votes
6.0
474 votes
Black Dragon AKA Miracles
1989 · Movie · 101 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Chen Chi-Hwa · Jackie Chan
Cast Jackie Chan · Anita Mui · Rose Kwei · Ko Chun-hsiung
5.8
509 votes
5.8
509 votes
Ex-Lady
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Bette Davis · Gene Raymond · Frank McHugh · Monroe Owsley
Synopsis Commercial artist Helen Bauer believes marriage kills romance. She lives with advertising writer Don Peterson. He convinces her to marry him. He later carries on...
5.8
47 votes
5.8
47 votes
Illicit
1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Rennie · Ricardo Cortez · Natalie Moorhead
Synopsis Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy...
5.7
32 votes
5.7
32 votes
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