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...
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294 votes
6.9
294 votes
The Lost Squadron
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Richard Dix · Mary Astor · Robert Armstrong · Dorothy Jordan
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5.8
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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
Direction Robert Milton
Cast Ann Harding · Laurence Olivier · ZaSu Pitts · Irving Pichel
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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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