Screenplay: Brock Williams
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Brock Williams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Contraband
1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler
Plot Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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The Gilded Cage
1955 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Alex Nicol · Veronica Hurst · Clifford Evans · Ursula Howells
Plot Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
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Crime Unlimited
1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Ince
Cast Esmond Knight · Lilli Palmer · Cecil Parker · George Merritt
Plot Frustrated by a seemingly infallible gang of jewel thieves, Scotland Yard arranges to have an undercover agent become part of the gang. Once inside, the agent starts to become attached...
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Condemned to Death
1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Arthur Wontner · Gillian Lind · Gordon Harker · Cyril Raymond
Plot A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
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Crown v. Stevens
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Beatrix Thomson · Patric Knowles · Glennis Lorimer · Reginald Purdell
Plot When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...
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High Terrace
1956 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast Dale Robertson · Lois Maxwell · Derek Bond · Eric Pohlmann
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The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe · Victor Saville
Cast Robert Montgomery · Edward Arnold · Reginald Owen · Edmund Gwenn
Plot Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to...
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A Place of One's Own
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Knowles
Cast Margaret Lockwood · James Mason · Barbara Mullen · Dennis Price
Plot An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl...
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The Dark Tower
1943 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Harlow
Cast Ben Lyon · Anne Crawford · David Farrar · Herbert Lom
Plot Forbidden romance, rivalry, murder, betrayed friends. A retired hypnotist falls in love with a trapeze artiste whose jealous partner is the brother of the circus owner.
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The Peterville Diamond
1943 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Anne Crawford · Donald Stewart · Renee Houston · Oliver Wakefield
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Stormy Crossing
1958 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast John Ireland · Derek Bond · Leslie Dwyer · Maureen Connell
Plot Two swimmers are attempting to swim across the English Channel when one of them disappears. The other swimmer is convinced that it was no accident, and insists on investigating himself,...
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Faithful
1936 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Jean Muir · Gene Gerrard · Hans Söhnker · Chili Bouchier
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Murder Will Out
1939 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast John Loder · Jane Baxter · Jack Hawkins · Hartley Power
Plot Loder and Baxter immersed in intrigue after receiving costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who gave them the...
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Her First Affaire
1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Ida Lupino · George Curzon · Diana Napier · Harry Tate
Plot A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's...
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Dancing with Crime
1947 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Richard Attenborough · Barry K. Barnes · Sheila Sim · Garry Marsh
Plot A London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
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Date with Disaster
1957 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Saunders
Cast Tom Drake · William Hartnell · Shirley Eaton · Maurice Kaufmann
Plot The honest owner of a second hand car business has crooks for employees.
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The Hundred Pound Window
1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Anne Crawford · David Farrar · Frederick Leister · Mary Clare
Plot An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and...
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Candlelight in Algeria
1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast James Mason · Carla Lehmann · Raymond Lovell · Enid Stamp-Taylor
Plot An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking...
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Charlie Chan (TV Series)
1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Leslie Arliss · Don Chaffey · Charles Bennett
Cast J. Carrol Naish · James Hong · Rupert Davies · Hugh Williams
Plot Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan is called in to help solve baffling cases, aided by his #1 son. The first five episodes were filmed in the US, then production switched to...
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Looking on the Bright Side
1932 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Graham Cutts · Basil Dean
Cast Gracie Fields · Richard Dolman · Julian Rose · Wyn Richmond
Plot Gracie and Laurie are lovers who together form a musical act. Gracie sings and Laurie writes the songs, but when Laurie gets a taste of fame, he runs off after...
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