Screenplay: Rian James

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


Walking on Air

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Gene Raymond · Ann Sothern · Jessie Ralph · Henry Stephenson

Plot A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.

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Crooner

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast David Manners · Ann Dvorak · Ken Murray · J. Carrol Naish

Plot Story of a saxophonist and his rise to fame as a singing star.

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Bedside

1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Warren William · Jean Muir · Allen Jenkins · David Landau

Plot Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

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This Time for Keeps

1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast Ann Rutherford · Robert Sterling · Guy Kibbee · Irene Rich

Plot Lee White, recently married to Katherine Bryant, eyes a vacation from marital responsibilities when Katherine goes out of town to attend a friend's wedding. But he soon becomes bored and...

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Exclusive

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Killer in the Mirror (TV)

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Frank De Felitta

Cast Ann Jillian · Len Cariou · Max Gail · Allen Garfield

Plot A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she fakes her own demise and returns from the "dead" to claim her sister's...

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Turnabout

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Hal Roach

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Carole Landis · John Hubbard · William Gargan

Plot Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

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Parachute Jumper

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Bette Davis · Frank McHugh · Claire Dodd

Plot Unemployed Bill and Toodles move in with Alabama to share expenses. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. When Alabama visits, the gangster falls...

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Not a Ladies' Man

1942 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Paul Kelly · Fay Wray · Douglas Croft · Ruth Lee

Plot Bill Bruce, a young boy whose dislike of women, stems from his father's divorce from his mother, is dismayed to find that his father, Robert Brude, is falling for Bill's...

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Hat Check Girl

1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sally Eilers · Ben Lyon · Ginger Rogers · Monroe Owsley

Plot Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her...

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Mary Stevens, M.D.

1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Kay Francis · Lyle Talbot · Glenda Farrell · Thelma Todd

Plot Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) and her old friend Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) find themselves graduating from medical school at the same time. They decide to set up their respective medical...

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Whispering City

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada

Direction Fyodor Otsep

Cast Paul Lukas · Mary Anderson · Helmut Dantine · John Pratt

Plot A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the...

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We're Only Human

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction James Flood

Cast Preston Foster · Jane Wyatt · James Gleason · Arthur Hohl

Plot A policeman does not hesitate to skip the rules for catching the criminals get the mafia, which displeases his superiors of his department.

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