Tag: Robert Riskin

You Can’t Take It With You Script

Script by:Robert Riskin (Scenario Writer), Robert Riskin (Screenplay), George S. Kaufman (Theatre Play), Moss Hart (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1938
IMDb:tt0030993

Plot:Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby. His wealthy banker father, Anthony P. Kirby, and his snobbish mother, strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things do not turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Half Angel Script

Script by:Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:Richard Sale
Year:1951
IMDb:tt0043615

Plot:Director Richard Sale's 1951 comedy about a sleepwalker and her alter ego's romantic problems stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Jim Backus, Irene Ryan, John Ridgely and Herb Vigran.
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Platinum Blonde Script

Script by:Harry Chandlee (Story), Douglas W. Churchill (Story), Robert Riskin (Dialogue), Jo Swerling (Adaptation)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1931
IMDb:tt0022268

Plot:Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Script

Script by:Clarence Budington Kelland (Story), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1936
IMDb:tt0027996

Plot:Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Lost Horizon Script

Script by:James Hilton (Novel), Robert Riskin (Screenplay), Sidney Buchman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1937
IMDb:tt0029162

Plot:British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Meet John Doe Script

Script by:Richard Connell (Story), Robert Presnell Sr. (Story), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1941
IMDb:tt0033891

Plot:As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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American Madness Script

Script by:Robert Riskin (Author)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1932
IMDb:tt0022626

Plot:American Madness is a film from director Frank Capra from 1932. Set during the depression the film depicts a bank trustee involved in a robbery scandal.
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The Whole Town’s Talking Script

Script by:Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Robert Riskin (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1935
IMDb:tt0027214

Plot:Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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It Happened One Night (1934) Script

Script by:Robert Riskin (Screenplay), Samuel Hopkins Adams (Author)
Directed by:Frank Capra
Year:1934
IMDb:tt0025316

Plot:A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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