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

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

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

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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

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A Spot of Bother

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

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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

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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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