Writing

Arnold Lipp

Born — Died

1901-01-15 — 1952-08-30

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Kill or Be Killed poster
5.9

An innocent man accused of a murder hides out aboard a steam ship in South American.

Kill or Be Killed

1950

Time Out of Mind poster
5.6

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Time Out of Mind

1947

Port Arthur poster
8.5

French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, French and Czechoslovakian film interests. About espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.

Port Arthur

1936

Yoshiwara poster
6.0

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Yoshiwara

1937

The King of the Champs-Élysées poster
5.9

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

The King of the Champs-Élysées

1934

Jealousy poster
5.4

A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.

Jealousy

1945

De big van het regiment poster
9.0

Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage returns from the Belgian border with a refugee child. Named "Big" by the company the kid soon becomes the regimental darling.

De big van het regiment

1935

Port Arthur poster
5.7

Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.

Port Arthur

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.

The Body Beautiful

1953

The Patriot poster
7.0

The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.

The Patriot

1938

The Brighton Strangler poster
6.3

After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

The Brighton Strangler

1945

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier poster
7.0

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier

1932

The Girl on the Bridge poster
6.4

A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.

The Girl on the Bridge

1951

No artwork available
5.6

Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young men agree to each spend one night in the "blue room“ of the castle. Years ago two people lost their lives in this room under most mysterious circumstances. Ever since, the door to the room has been locked. The youngest of the three men insists upon spending the first night in the blue room. At exact 1 a.m. a shot rings out...

The Secret of the Blue Room

1932

La Belle de Nuit poster
4.0

Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of uninhibited stylistic imagination that ranges from Sirkian stylization (an elaborate play of mirrors and doubles) to brutal realism (a tour of the bordellos of Marseille suggests the contemporary photographs of Brassaï).

La Belle de Nuit

1934

Pickup poster
6.1

Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune."

Pickup

1951

No artwork available
8.0

The cousin of an ugly duckling, during a search for missing documents, brings out her hidden charm and falls in love with her.

When Hearts Meet

1932