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
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Sophia Loren · Peter Sellers · Alastair Sim · Vittorio De Sica
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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