Screenplay: Wolf Mankowitz

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The 25th Hour

1967 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Anthony Quinn · Virna Lisi · Grégoire Aslan · Michael Redgrave

Plot Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi).

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

6.8

49 votes

6.8

49 votes

The Bespoke Overcoat

1955 · Movie · 35 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Alfie Bass · David Kossoff · Alan Tilvern · Alf Dean

Plot Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold...

6.7

98 votes

6.7

98 votes

The Hireling

1973 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Bridges

Cast Robert Shaw · Sarah Miles · Peter Egan · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot This is a thoughtful film that lays bare the iniquities of the so-called upper class and those who work for them; the haves and have-nots. Robert Shaw does a creditable...

6.6

327 votes

6.6

327 votes

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Janet Munro · Leo McKern · Edward Judd · Michael Goodliffe

Plot Journalists of the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world, such as flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, and violent tornadoes...

6.6

330 votes

6.6

330 votes

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Jekyll's Inferno)

1960 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Massie · Dawn Addams · Christopher Lee · David Kossoff

Plot Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

6.2

417 votes

6.2

417 votes

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Celia Johnson · Diana Dors · David Kossoff · Joe Robinson

Plot In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

Treasure Island

1972 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Hough · Andrea Bianchi · Antonio Margheriti

Cast Orson Welles · Kim Burfield · Walter Slezak · Rik Battaglia

Plot Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

5.8

633 votes

5.8

633 votes

The Assassination Bureau

1969 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Oliver Reed · Diana Rigg · Telly Savalas · Curd Jürgens

Plot The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is...

5.7

293 votes

5.7

293 votes

Where the Spies Are

1966 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast David Niven · Françoise Dorléac · John Le Mesurier · Cyril Cusack

Plot Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington (Nigel Davenport) by an enemy agent in this spy...

5.4

55 votes

5.4

55 votes

Casino Royale

1967 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston · Ken Hughes · Val Guest · Robert Parrish

Cast Peter Sellers · Ursula Andress · David Niven · Woody Allen

Plot SMERSH has outlined a plan to destabilize the world. Her Majesty’s Secret Service decides to press an aging James Bond out of retirement and back into action. His objective, to...

5.3

4K votes

5.3

4K votes

Waltz of the Toreadors

1962 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Peter Sellers · Dany Robin · Margaret Leighton · John Fraser

Plot This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster:...

5.3

45 votes

5.3

45 votes

The Millionairess

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

4.6

115 votes

4.6

115 votes

Dickens of London (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marc Miller · Michael Ferguson

Cast Roy Dotrice · John F. Landry · Diana Coupland · Adrienne Burgess

Plot Charles Dickens grew up in a family where his father was larger than life. The elder Dickens is a teller of tales and always seems to have ambitions that are...

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Expresso Bongo

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Laurence Harvey · Sylvia Syms · Yolande Donlan · Cliff Richard

Plot Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him...

Not rated

Not rated

Make Me an Offer

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Peter Finch · Adrienne Corri · Rosalie Crutchley · Finlay Currie

Plot Charlie as a boy on a trip to the local museum, falls in love with a green portland vase (wedgewood), and decides that this is his quest in life to...

Not rated

Not rated

Black Beauty

1971 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Hill

Cast Mark Lester · Walter Slezak · Peter Lee Lawrence · Uschi Glas

Plot When farm Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is...

Not rated

Not rated

The Hero

1971 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Harris · Uri Zohar

Cast Richard Harris · Romy Schneider · Kim Burfield · Maurice Kaufmann

Plot Richard Harris portrays Eitan, yesterday's football hero waiting for tomorrow. A man who has nothing left but guts. He consults the unheroic prospects of having to find a new profession...

Not rated

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The Long and the Short and the Tall

1961 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Laurence Harvey · Richard Todd · Richard Harris · David McCallum

Plot A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other...

Not rated

Not rated