Screenplay: Ian Stuart Black

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ian Stuart Black. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Danger Man (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 26 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend · Peter Graham Scott · Michael Truman · Terry Bishop

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Richard Wattis · Lionel Murton · Michael Ripper

Plot John Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatened world peace.

6.7

39 votes

6.7

39 votes

The Invisible Man (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Maxwell · Quentin Lawrence · C.M. Pennington-Richards

Cast Lisa Daniely · Tim Turner · Johnny Scripps · Deborah Watling

Plot TV Series (1958-1960). 26 episodes. British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns him invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so, while...

5.8

80 votes

5.8

80 votes

The Limping Man

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Moira Lister · Alan Wheatley · Leslie Phillips

Plot American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) arrives in London to take up an interrupted romance with Pauline French (Moira Lister), whom he hasn't seen in six years. At the airport a...

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

The High Bright Sun

1964 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · George Chakiris · Susan Strasberg · Denholm Elliott

Plot In 1957, Juno (Susan Strasberg), an American archaeology student, is visiting Cyprus and staying with the family of her father's best friend, Dr Andros (Joseph Furst). She witnesses an attack...

5.2

65 votes

5.2

65 votes

Elephant Boy (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Bain · James Gatward · Chris McCullough · Henri Safran

Cast Uwe Friedrichsen · Esrom Jayasinghe · Isobel Black · Margot Léonard

Plot The story of 12 year old, Toumai, his younger brother Ranjit, and their great friend the elephant Kala Nag.

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In the Wake of a Stranger

1959 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Eady

Cast Tony Wright · Shirley Eaton · Danny Green · Willoughby Goddard

Plot A seaman accidentally falls into clutches of murderers who want to pin a killing on him, but he foils them in the end.

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She'll Have to Go

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Asher

Cast Bob Monkhouse · Alfred Marks · Hattie Jacques · Anna Karina

Plot Brothers Francis and Douglas Oberon find themselves cut off from the family fortune by their late grandmother's will. Their distant cousin (once removed), maidservant Antoinette "Toni" Oberon, is the benefactor...

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Soho Incident

1956 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell

Cast Faith Domergue · Lee Patterson · Rona Anderson · Martin Benson

Plot A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into...

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The Long Knife

1958 · Movie · 57 min. · United Kingdom

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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror (TV)

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Davies

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Plot The time travellers visit a human colony that appears to be a happy place run along the lines of an enormous holiday camp but has in fact been infiltrated and...

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Doctor Who: The Savages (TV)

1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Peter Purves · Jackie Lane · Robert Sidaway

Plot The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world, but the Doctor, Steven and Dodo discover that it hides a terrible secret: the apparently civilised Elders maintain their...

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Shadow of the Past

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Joyce Howard · Terence Morgan · Michael Medwin · Andrew Osborn

Plot The screenplay involves a man who catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.

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Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Moira Armstrong · Philip Dudley · Ridley Scott · Paul Ciappessoni

Cast Gerald Harper · Juliet Harmer · Jack May · Peter Ducrow

Plot In 1902, Edwardian adventurer Adam Adamant is frozen alive in a block of ice by his arch-nemesis, the Face. In 1966, workmen discover him and he is revived, perfectly preserved...

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Home to Danger

1951 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Guy Rolfe · Rona Anderson · Francis Lister · Alan Wheatley

Plot A drug dealer tries to kill his partner's daughter, when she inherits an old house.

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Doctor Who: The War Machines (TV)

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Ferguson

Cast William Hartnell · Jackie Lane · Ric Felgate · Michael Craze

Plot The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought...

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