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
Direction Melvin Frank
Cast Rock Hudson · Gina Lollobrigida · Gig Young · Edward Judd
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
Direction Jerry Lewis
Cast Sammy Davis Jr. · Peter Lawford · John Wood · Dudley Sutton
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...
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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.
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Against the Wind
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast Robert Beatty · Simone Signoret · Jack Warner · Gordon Jackson
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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...
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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...
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Two Thousand Women
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Flora Robson · Patricia Roc · Renee Houston
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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.
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