Robert Chapin

Movies

G.I. Honeymoon
Story
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty. Later they try again, but as he has just completed a 37-mile hike, he finds himself too tired to work up any enthusiasm for conjugal bliss. Fortunately, the bride's understanding aunt intervenes with the young man's colonel and the frustrated couple is at last able to share a night of love.
Isle of Missing Men
Screenplay
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Isle of Missing Men
Adaptation
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Prisoner of Japan
Screenplay
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
Bowery Boy
Screenplay
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
Babies for Sale
Story
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Little Orvie
Writer
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
Everybody's Baby
Writer
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Always in Trouble
Writer
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Passport Husband
Screenplay
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.
Safety in Numbers
Screenplay
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Walking Down Broadway
Writer
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Borrowing Trouble
Screenplay
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Borrowing Trouble
Story
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Checkers
Screenplay
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Hot Water
Screenplay
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Whipsaw
Writer
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.