Screenplay: Michael Pertwee

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


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1966 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Zero Mostel · Phil Silvers · Buster Keaton · Michael Crawford

Plot Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

The Interrupted Journey

1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Daniel Birt

Cast Valerie Hobson · Richard Todd · Tom Walls · Alexander Gauge

Plot When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in...

6.1

96 votes

6.1

96 votes

Happy Ever After

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast David Niven · Yvonne De Carlo · Barry Fitzgerald · George Cole

Plot The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon...

6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

Strange Bedfellows

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

5.7

350 votes

5.7

350 votes

It Started in Naples

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Clark Gable · Sophia Loren · Vittorio De Sica · Paolo Carlini

Plot Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) is an American lawyer who travels to Naples to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law...

5.7

607 votes

5.7

607 votes

The Naked Truth

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Terry-Thomas · Peter Sellers · Peggy Mount · Shirley Eaton

Plot Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit)...

5.7

27 votes

5.7

27 votes

The Mouse on the Moon

1963 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Margaret Rutherford · Ron Moody · Bernard Cribbins · David Kossoff

Plot The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign...

5.7

155 votes

5.7

155 votes

Laughter in Paradise

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Alastair Sim · Fay Compton · Guy Middleton · George Cole

Plot Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task...

5.6

41 votes

5.6

41 votes

Salt & Pepper

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Sammy Davis Jr. · Peter Lawford · Michael Bates · Ilona Rodgers

Plot After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an...

4.9

39 votes

4.9

39 votes

One more time

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

4.2

21 votes

4.2

21 votes

Night Was Our Friend

1951 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Michael Gough · Elizabeth Sellars · Ronald Howard · Marie Ney

Plot Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found...

Not rated

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The Cavern

1964 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Saxon · Rosanna Schiaffino · Larry Hagman · Peter Marshall

Plot Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?

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The Thief of Venice

1950 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction John Brahm

Cast Maria Montez · Paul Hubschmid · Massimo Serato · Faye Marlowe

Plot A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.

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Suspicion (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Plot TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Not rated

Not rated

Against the Wind

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

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Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction James Michener · Felix E. Feist · Joseph Lejtes · Robert Florey

Cast Gardner McKay · James Holden · Guy Stockwell · Lani Kai

Plot TV Series. 91 episodes. Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war. As captain of the schooner "Tiki III", Troy drifted from...

Not rated

Not rated

Finders Keepers

1966 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Cliff Richard · Brian Bennett · John Rostill · Robert Morley

Plot Cliff Richard and The Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it.The Shadows look for the bomb to...

Not rated

Not rated

Two Thousand Women

1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

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Some Will, Some Won't

1970 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Duncan Wood

Cast Ronnie Corbett · Thora Hird · Michael Hordern · Barbara Murray

Plot Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

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The World of Wooster (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Mills

Cast Dennis Price · Ian Carmichael · Derek Nimmo · Eleanor Summerfield

Plot TV Series (1965-1967). 3 seasons. 20 episodes.

Not rated

Not rated