Screenplay: Arthur Ripley

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


Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

1926 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

6.7

59 votes

6.7

59 votes

The Strong Man

1926 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Harry Langdon · Priscilla Bonner · Gertrude Astor · William V. Mong

Plot A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated...

6.3

141 votes

6.3

141 votes

Long Pants

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Harry Langdon · Gladys Brockwell · Alan Roscoe · Priscilla Bonner

Plot Harry Shelby (Harry Langdon) has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long...

6.1

129 votes

6.1

129 votes

All Night Long (S)

1924 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · Fanny Kelly · Vernon Dent

Plot After falling asleep in a theater, Harry is starting to head home when he stumbles upon a burglary in progress. One of the burglars recognizes Harry as an old army...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Saturday Afternoon

1926 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Alice Ward · Vernon Dent · Ruth Hiatt

Plot Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some...

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

Fiddlesticks (S)

1927 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Vernon Dent · Anna Dodge · Billy Gilbert

Plot Is there a place in the world for Harry Hogan. On the day his parents and burly brothers kick him out of the house for never earning money - and...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

His Marriage Wow (S)

1925 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · William McCall · Vernon Dent

Plot In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor...

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Captain of the Guard

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Laura La Plante · John Boles · Sam De Grasse · James A. Marcus

Plot A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.

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Hypnotized

1932 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast George Moran · Charles Mack · Ernest Torrence · Wallace Ford

Plot A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but...

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Boobs in the Wood (S)

1925 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Marie Astaire · Vernon Dent · Leo Willis

Plot Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of...

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His First Flame

1927 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · Ruth Hiatt · Vernon Dent

Plot Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All...

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Soldier Man

1926 · Movie · 31 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · Vernon Dent · Frank Whitson

Plot After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on. (He was in a German prison camp, escaping...

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Lucky Stars (S)

1925 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

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Ghost Parade (S)

1931 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Mack Sennett

Cast Andy Clyde · Marjorie Beebe · Harry Gribbon · Frank Eastman

Plot When Mr. Martin and everyone else in Mosby Manor hears strange noises during the night, they fear that it might be the ghost of Martin's uncle, who died in the...

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Waterfront

1939 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Gloria Dickson · Dennis Morgan · Marie Wilson · Sheila Bromley

Plot Jim Dolen, head a a dock-worker's union, can't resist a good fight until Ann Stacey makes him promise to give up fighting to marry her. But when his brother Dan...

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Voice in the Wind

1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Ripley

Cast Francis Lederer · Sigrid Gurie · J. Edward Bromberg · J. Carrol Naish

Plot A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. He journeys to the...

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Remember When? (S)

1925 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · Vernon Dent

Plot When Harry was a lad, he lived at Hillcrest Orphanage, where he played with Rosemary, a neighbor girl. She moves away, leaving him just a locket. Soon after, he runs...

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The Chaser

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harry Langdon

Cast Harry Langdon · Gladys McConnell · Helen Hayward · Bud Jamison

Plot A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the...

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Plain Clothes (S)

1925 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Clair Cushman · Jean Hathaway · Vernon Dent

Plot The Ferrett Gang has stolen a diamond necklace. The gang is renting a room from a woman whose daughter is being courted by Harvey Carter, a clueless private eye. Cecile...

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Prisoner of Japan

1942 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Ripley

Cast Alan Baxter · Gertrude Michael · Ernst Deutsch · Corinna Mura

Plot On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter, finds himself pitted against a ruthless Japanese agent, Matsuru (Ernst Deutsch). He learns...

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