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.

5.2

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...

5.1

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.

4.9

21 votes

4.9

21 votes

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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

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A Lady Mislaid

1958 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

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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

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