Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin

From Wikipedia Robert Riskin (March 30, 1897–September 20, 1955) was an American screenwriter and playwright, best known for his collaborations with director-producer Frank Capra.

  • Title: Robert Riskin
  • Popularity: 1.573
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1897-03-30
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Bob Riskin
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Robert Riskin Movies

  • 1917
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    Rough and Ready Reggie

    Rough and Ready Reggie

    1 1917 HD

    After effeminate Reggie is picked on by the men at his club, a rough and ready ancestor appears to him and inspires him to become the ultimate he-man.

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  • 1934
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    It Happened One Night

    It Happened One Night

    7.818 1934 HD

    A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...

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  • 1937
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    Lost Horizon

    Lost Horizon

    6.966 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    7.49 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Meet John Doe

    Meet John Doe

    7.3 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Platinum Blonde

    Platinum Blonde

    6.708 1931 HD

    Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...

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  • 1938
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    You Can't Take It with You

    You Can't Take It with You

    7.5 1938 HD

    Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

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  • 1938
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    You Can't Take It with You

    You Can't Take It with You

    7.5 1938 HD

    Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

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  • 1944
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    The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home

    7.1 1944 HD

    On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

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  • 1944
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    The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home

    7.1 1944 HD

    On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

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  • 1933
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    Lady for a Day

    Lady for a Day

    7.1 1933 HD

    Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New...

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  • 1933
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    Ex-Lady

    Ex-Lady

    6.3 1933 HD

    Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

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  • 1935
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    The Whole Town's Talking

    The Whole Town's Talking

    6.784 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Magic Town

    Magic Town

    6.655 1947 HD

    Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire...

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  • 1917
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    Rough and Ready Reggie

    Rough and Ready Reggie

    1 1917 HD

    After effeminate Reggie is picked on by the men at his club, a rough and ready ancestor appears to him and inspires him to become the ultimate he-man.

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  • 1937
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    When You're in Love

    When You're in Love

    6.7 1937 HD

    An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.

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  • 1934
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    Broadway Bill

    Broadway Bill

    6 1934 HD

    Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...

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  • 1932
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    Virtue

    Virtue

    6.833 1932 HD

    Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets...

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  • 1931
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    Arizona

    Arizona

    4.8 1931 HD

    A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

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  • 1931
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    Arizona

    Arizona

    4.8 1931 HD

    A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

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  • 1950
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    Mister 880

    Mister 880

    7 1950 HD

    The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has...

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  • 1950
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    Riding High

    Riding High

    5.8 1950 HD

    A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

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  • 1951
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    Half Angel

    Half Angel

    5.6 1951 HD

    Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...

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  • 1939
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    The Real Glory

    The Real Glory

    6.3 1939 HD

    Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous...

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  • 1947
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    Magic Town

    Magic Town

    6.655 1947 HD

    Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire...

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  • 1931
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    Men in Her Life

    Men in Her Life

    6 1931 HD

    A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds...

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  • 1932
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    Three Wise Girls

    Three Wise Girls

    5 1932 HD

    Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She...

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  • 1933
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    Ann Carver's Profession

    Ann Carver's Profession

    5.5 1933 HD

    Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

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  • 1932
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    The Big Timer

    The Big Timer

    3.5 1932 HD

    Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

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  • 1956
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    You Can't Run Away from It

    You Can't Run Away from It

    4.3 1956 HD

    A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

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  • 1947
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    Magic Town

    Magic Town

    6.655 1947 HD

    Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire...

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  • 1932
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    Shopworn

    Shopworn

    6.7 1932 HD

    A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

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  • 1951
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    Here Comes the Groom

    Here Comes the Groom

    5.1 1951 HD

    Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

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  • 1951
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    Here Comes the Groom

    Here Comes the Groom

    5.1 1951 HD

    Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

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  • 1932
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    The Night Club Lady

    The Night Club Lady

    6.167 1932 HD

    A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.

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  • 1931
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    The Miracle Woman

    The Miracle Woman

    6.6 1931 HD

    After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a...

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  • 1941
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    Meet John Doe

    Meet John Doe

    7.3 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    American Madness

    American Madness

    7.1 1932 HD

    Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

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  • 1932
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    American Madness

    American Madness

    7.1 1932 HD

    Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...

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  • 1935
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    1 1935 HD

    "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

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  • 1961
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    Pocketful of Miracles

    Pocketful of Miracles

    7.3 1961 HD

    A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...

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  • 1938
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    The Cowboy and the Lady

    The Cowboy and the Lady

    6.1 1938 HD

    Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off...

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  • 1945
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    The Cummington Story

    The Cummington Story

    1 1945 HD

    War refugees begin new lives in a small Massachusetts town.

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  • 1932
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    The Big Timer

    The Big Timer

    3.5 1932 HD

    Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

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  • 1939
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    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    5.9 1939 HD

    The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

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  • 1931
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    Illicit

    Illicit

    5.8 1931 HD

    Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would...

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  • 1931
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    The Miracle Woman

    The Miracle Woman

    6.6 1931 HD

    After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a...

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  • 1945
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    Library of Congress

    Library of Congress

    5.8 1945 HD

    A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

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  • 1931
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    Many a Slip

    Many a Slip

    1 1931 HD

    Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.

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