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

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

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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

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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

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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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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

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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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