Arthur Ripley
Nacimiento : 1897-01-12, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1961-02-13
Historia
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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.
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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." Pool Sharks is his first film ever, released in 1915; the rest are all five of Fields’ talking shorts, released from 1930 to 1933.
Producer
Un héroe de la Guerra de Corea, de espíritu pendenciero, se une a un antiguo compañero, que se dedica a fabricar clandestinamente whisky en las montañas. Su trabajo consistirá conducir el camión que lleva el whisky de contrabando. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Un héroe de la Guerra de Corea, de espíritu pendenciero, se une a un antiguo compañero, que se dedica a fabricar clandestinamente whisky en las montañas. Su trabajo consistirá conducir el camión que lleva el whisky de contrabando. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Un par de exploradores se encuentran con una ciudad perdida en medio de la selva gobernada por una reina misteriosa.
Director
El héroe de guerra desahuciado Chuck Scott consigue trabajo como chofer de un gángster llamado Eddie Roman. Chuck no tardará en conocer a la temerosa mujer de su jefe: entonces su vida se convertirá en una pesadilla. La adaptación más controvertida de un relato de Woolrich entre sus seguidores, The Chase está basada en la novela de 1944 The Black Path of Fear, que era, a su vez, un desarrollo del cuento "Havana Night". El guión fue obra de Philip Yordan, que tenía una tendencia a subvertir, o violar, historias de género (ver por ejemplo su western de la Guerra Fría Johnny Guitar, centrado en personajes femeninos), y el film fue dirigido por Arthur Ripley. Ripley era una rara elección para el caso, ya que había trabajado sólo esporádicamente en los márgenes del sistema de Hollywood, y nunca logró un éxito masivo, aunque su último film, Thunder Road (1958), es todavía hoy un film de culto. No era sorprendente que esta combinación de dos talentos excéntricos produjera un film extraño.
Original Story
Un pianista de concierto ha perdido la memoria, resultado de haber sido arrestado y torturado por los nazis durante la guerra por tocar una canción prohibida. Viaja a la isla de Guadalupe para intentar recuperar la memoria y la salud.
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Un pianista de concierto ha perdido la memoria, resultado de haber sido arrestado y torturado por los nazis durante la guerra por tocar una canción prohibida. Viaja a la isla de Guadalupe para intentar recuperar la memoria y la salud.
Writer
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
Screenplay
En una pequeña isla tropical, al sur del Pacífico, un plantador estadounidense se ve enfrentado a un cruel agente japonés. Sabe que ha instalado una emisora de radio de onda corta cerca de su casa, y que barcos estadounidenses han sido atacados n esa parte del Pacífico con mortal eficacia ...
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En una pequeña isla tropical, al sur del Pacífico, un plantador estadounidense se ve enfrentado a un cruel agente japonés. Sabe que ha instalado una emisora de radio de onda corta cerca de su casa, y que barcos estadounidenses han sido atacados n esa parte del Pacífico con mortal eficacia ...
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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.
Dialogue
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Screenplay
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
Director
Julie e Ives Tower se conocen en la universidad y se enamoran. Proyectan casarse cuando terminen sus estudios. Sin embargo, debido a la oposición de los padres de ella, la relación se rompe y Julie acaba casándose con un escritor alcohólico, con el que se traslada a París.
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This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
Director
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. Hilarity ensues.
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Edgar cree que finalmente tiene un plan que obligará a su cuñado perezoso y malhumorado a conseguir un trabajo. Primero, Edgar hace que algunos amigos lo ayuden a organizar un ataque cardíaco falso. Luego, mientras se supone que se está recuperando, aprovecha una fuente de fuerza de voluntad mística para hacer el resto.
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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.
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Edgar falls in love with another woman.
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A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
Director
Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.
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To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.
Director
Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.
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New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
Screenplay
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.
Director
Un barbero inepto mantiene su optimismo y buen humor en su pequeña tienda de la ciudad a pesar de tener a una bruja por esposa y a su total falta de habilidad en el vestir.
Director
Un farmacéutico calzonazos, acosado por su regañona esposa, una familia disfuncional y la exigente clientela, mantiene su paciencia y estoico optimismo bebiendo martinis con frecuencia. Su esposa y sus ensimismadas hijas muestran poco aprecio por sus esfuerzos por mantener su precario negocio con la venta de licor de contrabando por debajo del mostrador, a pesar de las sospechas del sheriff local.
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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. Wrestlers Hans Steinke plays the wrestling champion and Bull Heffner his opponent.
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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. Wrestlers Hans Steinke plays the wrestling champion and Bull Heffner his opponent.
Screenplay
A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.
Writer
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.
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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.
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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.
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Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
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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. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
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Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
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Cuando Harry recibe sus primeros pantalones largos, lo primero que hace es intentar impresionar a las chicas. Por desgracia, se enamora de la menos adecuada...
Editor
Acabada la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un soldado belga emigra a Estados Unidos para trabajar en un espectáculo circense organizado por un antiguo enemigo, pero sobre todo para encontrar a una desconocida que le escribía cartas de amor cuando estaba en el frente.
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Acabada la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un soldado belga emigra a Estados Unidos para trabajar en un espectáculo circense organizado por un antiguo enemigo, pero sobre todo para encontrar a una desconocida que le escribía cartas de amor cuando estaba en el frente.
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A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.
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Harry compite en una carrera campo a través para poder pagar el alquiler de su padre… y ganarse a la hija del patrocinador.
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Harry y sus amigos han planeado ir a divertirse una tarde. Pero primero, Harry debe ingeniárselas para escaparse de su dominante esposa con algo de dinero para gastar. Cuando por fin lo consigue, descubre que sus problemas acaban de empezar.
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Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Screenplay
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. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
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Un hombre tranquilo se dirige a los bosques del norte para probar suerte como leñador y termina en un salón del Salvaje Oeste mientras corteja a una hermosa chica.
Writer
Después de pasar una agradable velada en el teatro, Harry se dirige a su casa cuando un grupo de ladronzuelos pretenden asaltarle. Uno de ellos reconoce a Harry, ya que habían combatido juntos en la armada. Ambos se enamoraron estando en Francia de la misma mujer, por lo que su amistad se convirtio en rivalidad. Ahora, después de varios años sin verse, ¿dejarán a un lado la rivalidad o intentarán durante la larga noche recuperar su vieja amistad?
Writer
Wandering Waistlines is a 1924 comedy short.
Adaptation
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
Editor
Un vividor se hace pasar en Montecarlo por un respetable conde ruso, e intenta seducir a una distinguida dama norteamericana que pasa sus vacaciones con su marido, un destacado diplomático. Jean Renoir declaró que ver esta película fue determinante en su futura carrera como cineasta.
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The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surprise-ending tale was adapted into a stage play by Paul Armstrong, which subsequently was adapted to film several times
