Writing
Ralph Block
Born — Died
1889-06-21 — 1974-01-02
Place of birth
Cherokee, Iowa, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
19 titles
Known for
5.7After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Before Dawn
1933
9.0Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
Celebrity
1928
4.9A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
The Right to Live
1935
7.0The Arizona Kid carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt, accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt, actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
The Arizona Kid
1930
7.0A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Nobody's Fool
1936
8.0George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.
The Sea Wolf
1930
Behind the camera
5.7After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Before Dawn
1933
9.0Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
Celebrity
1928
4.9A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
The Right to Live
1935
7.0The Arizona Kid carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt, accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt, actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
The Arizona Kid
1930
7.0A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Nobody's Fool
1936
8.0George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.
The Sea Wolf
1930
6.7Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
The Cop
1928
NRA piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her life. Their son is brought up by foster parents and becomes a musician.
The Melody Lingers on
1935
5.1A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
The Racketeer
1929
6.2A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
I Am a Thief
1934
5.7Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Boulder Dam
1936
5.5Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
Massacre
1934
6.2A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
Gambling Lady
1934
7.0A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.
Scotland Yard
1930
4.5A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Big News
1929
NRDuring World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Spy for a Day
1940
9.0The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.
Man-Made Women
1928
6.5Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
The Quarterback
1926
5.7Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Dark Hazard
1934
