Screenplay: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Zeisler

Cast Cary Grant · Mary Brian · Peter Gawthorne · Henry Kendall

Plot Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives...

5.4

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5.4

163 votes

The Great Impersonation

1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Evelyn Ankers · Aubrey Mather · Edward Norris

Plot An unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his...

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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines

Plot This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown...

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Midnight Club

1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast Clive Brook · George Raft · Helen Vinson · Alison Skipworth

Plot Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running...

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The Great Impersonation

1935 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Edmund Lowe · Valerie Hobson · Wera Engels · Murray Kinnell

Plot Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey at the vast Dominey Hall, where strange things are afoot in pre-WW1 England.

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The Test of Honor

1919 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast John Barrymore · Constance Binney · Marcia Manon · Robert Schable

Plot After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

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