Richard Murphy

The Kidnapping of the President

A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.

Release Date: 1980-08-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 12

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk

The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.

Release Date: 1967-09-08

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 3

Felony Squad

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

Release Date: 1966-09-12

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 5

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

Release Date: 1960-12-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 36

The Last Angry Man

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck.

Release Date: 1959-10-22

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 15

Compulsion

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.

Release Date: 1959-04-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 148

Three Stripes in the Sun

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Release Date: 1955-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Broken Lance

Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.

Release Date: 1954-09-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 74

The Desert Rats

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.

Release Date: 1953-05-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 91

Les Miserables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Release Date: 1952-08-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 15

The House on Telegraph Hill

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Release Date: 1951-05-12

Department: Crew

Job: Additional Writing

Vote Count: 61

You're in the Navy Now

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.

Release Date: 1951-02-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9

Panic in the Streets

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

Release Date: 1950-07-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 147

Slattery's Hurricane

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

Release Date: 1949-08-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

Cry of the City

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Release Date: 1948-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 65

Deep Waters

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Release Date: 1948-07-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

Boomerang!

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.

Release Date: 1947-02-28

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 79

Wrecking Crew

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.

Release Date: 1942-11-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

X Marks the Spot

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.

Release Date: 1942-11-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 10

Wildcat

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.

Release Date: 1942-09-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

I Live on Danger

A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.

Release Date: 1942-06-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6

The Cyclone Kid

A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.

Release Date: 1942-05-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Jesse James, Jr.

Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking telegraph service. Every time the locals try to set up communications with the Outside World, they are thwarted by an outlaw gang.

Release Date: 1942-03-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Flying Blind

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Release Date: 1941-08-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

The Singing Hill

If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.

Release Date: 1941-04-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Apache Kid

Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.

Release Date: 1941-04-11

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Back in the Saddle

Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.

Release Date: 1941-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.

Release Date: 1938-02-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1