Screenplay: Lewis Gilbert

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


Reach for the Sky

1956 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Muriel Pavlow · Lyndon Brook · Lee Patterson

Plot The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

The Good Die Young

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins

Plot Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted...

6.4

67 votes

6.4

67 votes

Carve Her Name with Pride

1958 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Virginia McKenna · Paul Scofield · Jack Warner · Denise Grey

Plot Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French...

6.1

57 votes

6.1

57 votes

Friends

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

5.9

58 votes

5.9

58 votes

Ferry to Hong Kong

1959 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Curd Jürgens · Orson Welles · Sylvia Syms · Jeremy Spenser

Plot Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa...

5.5

27 votes

5.5

27 votes

Haunted

1995 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Aidan Quinn · Anthony Andrews · John Gielgud

Plot Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon...

5.3

209 votes

5.3

209 votes

The Adventurers

1970 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Charles Aznavour · Alan Badel · Candice Bergen · Thommy Berggren

Plot The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his...

5.2

70 votes

5.2

70 votes

Cosh Boy

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast James Kenney · Joan Collins · Betty Ann Davies · Robert Ayres

Plot Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother,...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Redgrave · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Steel · Nigel Patrick

Plot During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and...

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Marry Me

1949 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Derek Bond · Susan Shaw · Patrick Holt · Carol Marsh

Plot The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a...

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Emergency Call

1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Jack Warner · Anthony Steel · Joy Shelton · Freddie Mills

Plot Scotland Yard is mobilised in the hunt for blood donors in a race to save a dying girl.

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Paul and Michelle

1974 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Anicée Alvina · Sean Bury · Keir Dullea · Ronald Lewis

Plot The continuation of Friends (1971). The story begins three years after Paul Harrison is forced to leave Michelle Latour and their baby, Sylvie, alone in the Camargue after the police...

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Not rated