Screenplay: Ralph Spence
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ralph Spence. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Show People
1928 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Marion Davies · William Haines · Dell Henderson · Paul Ralli
Plot Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But...
7.0
222 votes
7.0
222 votes
The Flying Deuces
1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction A. Edward Sutherland
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Jean Parker · Reginald Gardiner
Plot Ollie's broken heart puts Laurel and Hardy in the Foreign Legion. They are assigned to laundry duty and before long the laundry goes up in smoke. They are eventually arrested...
5.8
883 votes
5.8
883 votes
Down Argentine Way
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Don Ameche · Betty Grable · Carmen Miranda · Charlotte Greenwood
Plot American girl (Grable) on vacation in Argentina falls for wealthy racehorse owner (Ameche). Lots of scenery and musical entertainment.
5.5
62 votes
5.5
62 votes
Speak Easily
1932 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Buster Keaton · Jimmy Durante · Ruth Selwyn · Thelma Todd
5.2
102 votes
5.2
102 votes
The Gorilla
1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Jimmy Ritz · Harry Ritz · Al Ritz · Anita Louise
Plot When a wealthy man (Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion...
4.9
21 votes
4.9
21 votes
Higher and Higher
1943 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Michèle Morgan · Jack Haley · Frank Sinatra · Leon Errol
Plot Formerly rich Mr. Drake is broke...with his household staff's wages seven months in arrears. Conniving valet Mike O'Brien hatches a scheme to pass off scullery maid Millie as Drake's debutante...
4.8
23 votes
4.8
23 votes
The Great Barrier
1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Milton Rosmer · Geoffrey Barkas
Cast Richard Arlen · Barry MacKay · Roy Emerton · Antoinette Cellier
Plot The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jack Oakie · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Lyda Roberti
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Around the World
1943 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Kay Kyser · Mischa Auer · Joan Davis · Marcy McGuire
Plot Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Thelma Todd · Dorothy Lee
Plot Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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Mr. Skitch
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James Cruze
Cast Will Rogers · Rochelle Hudson · ZaSu Pitts · Florence Desmond
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The Fleet's In
1942 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Dorothy Lamour · William Holden · Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton
Plot Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. His buddies then make a bet with some other sailors...
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Hook Line and Sinker
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edward F. Cline
Cast Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey · Dorothy Lee · Ralf Harolde
Plot Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out...
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Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Chester Morris · Vivienne Osborne · Frank McHugh · Allen Jenkins
Plot People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."
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The Gang's All Here
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Jack Buchanan · Googie Withers · Edward Everett Horton · Syd Walker
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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction B. Reeves Eason · Archie Mayo
Cast Jackie Coogan · Mattie Witting · Maurice Costello · Pat Hartigan
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Warner Baxter · Madge Evans · James Dunn · John Boles
Plot President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon...
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Strictly Dynamite
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Jimmy Durante · Lupe Velez · Norman Foster · William Gargan
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Her Bodyguard
1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Edmund Lowe · Wynne Gibson · Edward Arnold · Alan Dinehart
Plot The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other...
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Plainsman and the Lady
1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Kane
Cast Bill Elliott · Vera Ralston · Gail Patrick · Joseph Schildkraut
Plot St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859, is divided by a railroad track that separates the richer and poorer classes of people. From the richer side comes Ann Arnesen, daughter of Michael...
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