Screenplay: A.R. Rawlinson
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Gaslight
1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thorold Dickinson
Cast Diana Wynyard · Anton Walbrook · Frank Pettingell · Cathleen Cordell
Plot The first and in some ways superior version of Patrick Hamilton's stage play "Angel Street," this British production is set in London where a beautiful heiress is menaced into madness...
7.3
939 votes
7.3
939 votes
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Leslie Banks · Peter Lorre · Edna Best · Frank Vosper
Plot Hitchcocks first and arguably superior production of the same story he retold in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day, and critics continue to argue the films merits versus its...
6.5
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6.5
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Stock Car
1955 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wolf Rilla
Cast Paul Carpenter · Rona Anderson · Susan Shaw · Harry Fowler
Plot Katie attempts to save her fathers failing garage after he is killed during a stock car race, but one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
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The White Unicorn
1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Knowles
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Joan Greenwood · Ian Hunter · Dennis Price
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Operation Diplomat
1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Guy Rolfe · Lisa Daniely · Patricia Dainton · Sydney Tafler
Plot Doctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing...
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Jew Süss
1934 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lothar Mendes
Cast Conrad Veidt · Benita Hume · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Vosper
Plot A Jew seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society. Unlike the 1940 version, the 1934...
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Scarlet Thread
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kathleen Byron · Laurence Harvey · Sydney Tafler · Dora Bryan
Plot Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.
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The Plot to Kill Roosevelt
1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Giacomo Gentilomo · William Freshman
Cast Derek Farr · Marta Labarr · Manning Whiley · Pamela Stirling
Plot A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tom Walls
Cast Tom Walls · Ralph Lynn · Grace Edwin · Yvonne Arnaud
Plot A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people....
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Someone at the Door
1950 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Francis Searle
Cast Michael Medwin · Garry Marsh · Yvonne Owen · Hugh Latimer
Plot A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so...
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The Face at the Window
1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Tod Slaughter · John Warwick · Aubrey Mallalieu · Marjorie Taylor
Plot In 1880, the criminal called The Face is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the...
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The Black Rider
1954 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wolf Rilla
Cast Jimmy Hanley · Rona Anderson · Leslie Dwyer · Lionel Jeffries
Plot When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their...
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Fast and Loose
1954 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Stanley Holloway · Kay Kendall · Brian Reece · Joan Young
Plot An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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Spies of the Air
1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Barry K. Barnes · Roger Livesey · Felix Aylmer · Basil Radford
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A Spot of Bother
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Robertson Hare · Alfred Drayton · Sandra Storme · Kathleen Joyce
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The Chinese Bungalow
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Paul Lukas · Kay Walsh · Jane Baxter · Robert Douglas
Plot A wealthy Chinese banker sets his sights on a pretty British singer, and eventually marries her and takes her back to Chinese Bungalow, his estate deep in the Malayan jungle....
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Man of the Moment
1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Monty Banks
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Laura La Plante · Claude Hulbert · Margaret Lockwood
Plot Mary, who is infatuated with her boss, discovers that he is having an affair with one of her coworkers. Despondent, she leaves work and overhearing news of a suicide, impulsively...
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King of the Damned
1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Conrad Veidt · Helen Vinson · Noah Beery · Cecil Ramage
Plot An educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against the cruel authority figure of the prison.They try to act before one of their own...
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John Halifax
1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast John Warwick · Nancy Burne · Ralph Michael · D.J. Williams
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast George Curzon · Tod Slaughter · Greta Gynt · Tony Sympson
Plot Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
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