Arthur Ripley Trailers
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Arthur DeWitt Ripley (January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961) was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer and director. In 1923, he joined the Mack Sennett studio as a comedy writer. In the 1920s, he worked closely with Frank Capra churning out screenplays for many movies. After breaking with Capra and the Sennett studio, Ripley again returned to being a gag-writer, screenwriter, and occasional director, making short films with such comedians as W. C. Fields and Edgar Kennedy. His directorial work in the 1940s, Voice in the Wind (1944) and The Chase (1946), were both critical successes, but neither film were boxoffice hits.
Ripley entered the world of academia, helping to establish the Film Center at U.C.L.A. while also working occasionally on TV. Ripley returned to directing one more time, at the request of Robert Mitchum, for Thunder Road (1958) before returning to U.C.L.A. and working until his death in 1961.
Most Popular Arthur Ripley Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
27 November 1927
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
28 February 1934
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
05 October 1924
The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
05 March 1936
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack.
12 February 1928
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.
24 October 1934
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
13 March 1942
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
30 March 1930
A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.
03 March 1944
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
01 October 1928
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies.
31 January 1926
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend.
02 May 1927
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs.
05 February 1943
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
14 January 1938
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career.
28 July 1933
An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.
08 January 1955
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
22 July 1942
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
10 May 1958
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business.
21 April 1933
A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
14 April 1925
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
01 March 1925
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance.
29 February 1920
The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surps
20 January 1933
Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his favor.
07 June 1931
A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank.
28 August 1927
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men.
25 April 1936
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation.
01 February 1925
Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress.
16 November 1946
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
28 March 1930
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader.
14 January 1924
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde.
03 October 1926
A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.
11 January 1922
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
19 November 1926
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met.
01 July 1936
This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
28 September 1930
A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.
04 July 1935
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
15 July 1939
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
26 March 1927
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants.
01 January 1951
A newlywed actor returns from filming with his wife in a multitude of costumes. His nosy neighbors believe he has several different lovers and plan to do something about it.
24 December 1934
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.
13 March 1927
Ben Turpin, a self-proclaimed "lady killer" finds himself in a difficult romantic predicament. Currently engaged to a woman described as a "gold-digger" (played by Madeleine Hurlock), Ben decides he must first end his relationship with his former lover, a showgirl and theater dancer named Alma Bennett.
26 August 1939
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
21 March 1926
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father.
08 May 1935
Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.
01 July 1915
Faced with the tragic responsibility of choosing between the happiness of her 16-year-old daughter Pamela or saving the life of an innocent man, Marie Baudin's first impulse is to sacrifice all for her own.
01 January 2000
A Criterion compilation of "six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and, of course, the notorious The Dentist.
15 August 1925
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
29 August 1935
Edgar thinks he is in love with another woman while his wife (Florence) and her family are out of town, leading to jealousy when Florence returns and pretends she is in love with another man.
03 January 1936
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.
01 December 1934
Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.
08 November 1924
Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
05 January 1920
When Alden Van Dusen, a third-generation member of a prestigious old New York family, is faced with the alternatives of allowing his firm to go bankrupt or becoming involved in fraud, he decides on suicide.
13 December 1915
Noble born but dissolute M. Jean de Segni receives word from his lawyers that his profligate ways, including keeping mercenary actress Dorothea Jardeau, have led to his ruin which he accepts with a shrug of the shoulders.
27 September 1915
Wealthy New York contractor Wilton Demarest falls victim to the wiles of beautiful adventuress Mazora.
