Screenplay: Robert Hamer

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


Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Dennis Price · Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Valerie Hobson

Synopsis Louis Manzzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

It Always Rains on Sunday

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Googie Withers · Edward Chapman · Jack Warner · Susan Shaw

Synopsis The events of a wet Sabbath unfold in the pubs, homes, and markets of the East End. While petty criminals and the police play cat-and-mouse, and various love affairs start and stop, housewife Rose Sandigate finds she has a difficult...

6.6

123 votes

6.6

123 votes

The Long Memory

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast John Mills · John McCallum · Elizabeth Sellars · Eva Bergh

Synopsis Davidson (John Mills), visits the boat of Captain Driver to ask permission to marry his daughter Fay. Aboard, he finds himself involved in a fight over the criminal activities of Boyd, a people trafficker with whom the Drivers are associated....

6.4

62 votes

6.4

62 votes

Father Brown

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Peter Finch · Cecil Parker

Synopsis Father Brown is an eccentric priest who spends his spare time working as an amateur private-eye to capture and reform criminals. When he is outwitted by the sly, international art thief Flambeau, the priest has his work cut out for...

6.2

222 votes

6.2

222 votes

The Scapegoat

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Alec Guinness · Bette Davis · Nicole Maurey · Irene Worth

Synopsis A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.

6.1

177 votes

6.1

177 votes

Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Mervyn Johns · Mary Merrall · Gordon Jackson · Jean Ireland

Synopsis In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband.

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

A Jolly Bad Fellow

1964 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Leo McKern · Janet Munro · Maxine Audley · Dennis Price

Synopsis An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.

Not rated

Not rated

San Demetrio London

1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Arthur Young · Walter Fitzgerald · Ralph Michael · Neville Mapp

Synopsis The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way.

Not rated

Not rated

His Excellency

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Eric Portman · Cecil Parker · Helen Cherry · Susan Stephen

Synopsis The post-war Labour government appoints an ex-docker as Governor of a Mediterranean colony.

Not rated

Not rated