Direction: David MacDonald
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by David MacDonald. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Devil Girl from Mars
1954 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Hugh McDermott · Hazel Court · Peter Reynolds · Adrienne Corri
Plot An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a raygun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
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119 votes
5.2
119 votes
The Moonraker
1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast George Baker · Sylvia Syms · Marius Goring · Peter Arne
Plot After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on...
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23 votes
5.1
23 votes
Christopher Columbus
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Fredric March · Florence Eldridge · Francis L. Sullivan · Kathleen Ryan
Plot Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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21 votes
4.9
21 votes
Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series)
1956 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Lance Comfort · Don Chaffey · Michael McCarthy · David MacDonald
Cast Merle Oberon · Martin Benson · Lionel Jeffries · Peter Arne
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This Man in Paris
1939 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Barry K. Barnes · Valerie Hobson · Alastair Sim · Edward Lewy
Plot A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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Small Hotel
1957 · Movie · 57 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Gordon Harker · Marie Lohr · John Loder · Irene Handl
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A Lady Mislaid
1958 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Alan White · Thorley Walters · Gillian Owen
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This Man Is News
1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Barry K. Barnes · Valerie Hobson · Alastair Sim · John Warwick
Plot A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
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Cairo Road
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Eric Portman · Laurence Harvey · Maria Mauban · Camelia
Plot The never-ending struggle of an Egyptian Narcotics Bureau unit. This time around,the murder of a rich Arab named Bashiri leads colonel Yussef Bey and his right-hand man Lieutenant Mourad to...
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Desert Victory
1943 · Documentary · 62 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald · Roy Boulting
Plot This documentary recounts the famous World War II battle of El Alamein, considered one of the key turning points in the war against the Nazis. The film uses actual footage...
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Petticoat Pirates
1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Charlie Drake · Anne Heywood · Cecil Parker · John Turner
Plot 100 girls rebel because they have been turned down for service on a warship.
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Alias John Preston
1955 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Betta St. John · Alexander Knox · Christopher Lee · Sandra Dorne
Plot Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. He invests in local businesses and gets involved in community affairs. Eventually, he meets a local belle, Sally, and wins her from...
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Good-Time Girl
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Jean Kent · Dennis Price · Herbert Lom · Peter Glenville
Plot A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. She runs away with two GI's who are also...
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The Lost Hours
1952 · Movie · 67 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Mark Stevens · Jean Kent · Garry Marsh · John Bentley
Plot During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. The next...
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Diamond City
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast David Farrar · Honor Blackman · Diana Dors · Niall MacGinnis
Plot Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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The Brothers
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Patricia Roc · Will Fyffe · Maxwell Reed · Finlay Currie
Plot The MacFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent...
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Snowbound
1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Dennis Price · Mila Parély · Stanley Holloway · Marcel Dalio
Plot A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps.
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Men of the Lightship (S)
1941 · Documentary · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Bill Blewitt · Leonard Sharp
Plot Men of the Lightship is a short propaganda film produced by the Crown Film Unit for the British Ministry of Information in 1940, the year after the beginning of the...
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The Adventurers
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Jack Hawkins · Peter Hammond · Dennis Price · Grégoire Aslan
Plot As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where...
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Tread Softly
1952 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast John Bentley · Patricia Dainton · John Laurie · Olaf Olsen
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