Screenplay: Humphrey Pearson

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


Ruggles of Red Gap

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Plot While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage...

6.9

294 votes

6.9

294 votes

The Lost Squadron

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Red Salute

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Young · Hardie Albright · Cliff Edwards

Plot The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she...

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Westward Passage

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Charles Farrell · Wynne Gibson · William Gargan · ZaSu Pitts

Plot When Aggie's boyfriend Red is sent to jail, she meets a mild-mannered man and decides to turn him into a real man.

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Traveling Husbands

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Evelyn Brent · Frank Albertson · Constance Cummings · Hugh Herbert

Plot Several traveling salesmen get involved with business, booze, romance, party girls and a lot more while staying at a hotel Detroit.

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Sunny

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Marilyn Miller · Lawrence Gray · Joe Donahue · O.P. Heggie

Plot A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

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Playing Around

1930 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Alice White · Chester Morris · William Bakewell · Richard Carlyle

Plot New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She...

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On with the Show!

1929 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Arthur Lake · Betty Compson · Joe E. Brown · Sally O'Neil

Plot With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. The...

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Top Speed

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joe E. Brown · Bernice Claire · Jack Whiting · Frank McHugh

Plot Two clerks pose as rich playboys at a swanky summer resort. One of them falls in love with a millionaire's daughter who has a very disapproving father, until he wins,...

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The Great Flirtation

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Elissa Landi · Adolphe Menjou · David Manners · Lynne Overman

Plot An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

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Going Wild

1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Joe E. Brown · Lawrence Gray · Ona Munson · Walter Pidgeon

Plot Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of...

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Consolation Marriage

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Irene Dunne · Pat O'Brien · John Halliday · Myrna Loy

Plot In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also...

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Bright Lights

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Frank Fay · Noah Beery · Daphne Pollard

Plot A successful actress (Dorothy Mackaill) is about to marry a rich man instead of the man (Frank Fay) she really loves.

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Bride of the Regiment

1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Vivienne Segal · Allan Prior · Walter Pidgeon · Louise Fazenda

Plot As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising....

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Broadway Babies

1929 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Alice White · Marion Byron · Sally Eilers · Charles Delaney

Plot Dee lives with her two girlfriends in a boarding house. Billy is in love with Dee and runs the show where Dee is in the chorus. He has Dee stepping...

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Face in the Sky

1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Spencer Tracy · Marian Nixon · Stuart Erwin · Sam Hardy

Plot Sign painters Joe and Lucky travel around New England looking for jobs. After Joe uses Madge as a model, she hides in their wagon. The painters are about to be...

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