Screenplay: Jack Whittingham
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jack Whittingham. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Mandy
1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Jack Hawkins · Terence Morgan · Mandy Miller
Plot A poignant drama about a young deaf girl and the strains her condition puts on her family. Mandy was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life....
7.1
320 votes
7.1
320 votes
Hunted
1952 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Kay Walsh · Elizabeth Sellars · Geoffrey Keen
Plot Robbie (Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6 year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, and fearing...
7.1
132 votes
7.1
132 votes
Pool of London
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson
Plot Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.
7.1
31 votes
7.1
31 votes
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 Divided Heart
1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast Cornell Borchers · Yvonne Mitchell · Armin Dahle · Alexander Knox
Plot During World War II, a German woman named Inga (Cornell Borchers, who won a Best Foreign Actress BAFTA Award) goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed...
6.6
32 votes
6.6
32 votes
Cage of Gold
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Jean Simmons · David Farrar · James Donald · Herbert Lom
Plot A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from...
6.2
38 votes
6.2
38 votes
Never Say Never Again
1983 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Irvin Kershner
Cast Sean Connery · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Kim Basinger · Max von Sydow
Plot A Spectre agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
6.0
7K votes
6.0
7K votes
The Prince and the Pauper
1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Sean Scully · Guy Williams · Jane Asher · Paul Rogers
Plot Two boys, one a prince and one a poor boy, change places.
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Escape to Danger
1943 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort · Victor Hanbury Productions
Cast Eric Portman · Ann Dvorak · Karel Stepanek · Ronald Ward
Plot During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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West of Zanzibar
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harry Watt
Cast Anthony Steel · Sheila Sim · William Simons · Orlando Martins
Plot The story of native tribesmen who move towards Mombasa, getting drawn info the world of ivory smuggling.
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Twilight Hour
1945 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Mervyn Johns · Basil Radford · Marie Lohr · A.E. Matthews
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The Laughing Lady
1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Anne Ziegler · Webster Booth · Francis L. Sullivan · Peter Graves
Plot During the French Revolution, a young aristocrat makes a deal with Robespierre that he will locate and steal some diamonds from Britain in order to save his mother from the...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Patricia Medina · Jimmy Hanley · Marie Lohr · Frederick Leister
Plot Joan's (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley).
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Lisbon Story
1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Patricia Burke · David Farrar · Walter Rilla · Lawrence O'Madden
Plot A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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The Birthday Present
1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pat Jackson
Cast Tony Britton · Sylvia Syms · Jack Watling · Walter Fitzgerald
Plot A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife's birthday. This is illegal in 1950's Britain and when...
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Welcome Mr Washington
1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast Barbara Mullen · Donald Stewart · Peggy Cummins · Leslie Bradley
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Counterblast
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Robert Beatty · Mervyn Johns · Nova Pilbeam · Margaretta Scott
Plot The story has Mervyn Johns as a Nazi doctor and escaped prisoner-of-war who goes to London. There, via the Nazi underground, he poses as an Australian bacteriologist, whom he has...
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Torpedo Bay
1963 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Charles Frend · Bruno Vailati
Cast Lilli Palmer · James Mason · Gabriele Ferzetti · Alberto Lupo
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The Dancing Years
1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Dennis Price · Gisèle Préville · Patricia Dainton · Anthony Nicholls
Plot The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love,...
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I Believe in You
1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden · Michael Relph
Cast Celia Johnson · Cecil Parker · Godfrey Tearle · Harry Fowler
Plot I Believe in You, is a slice of life look at the workings of the probation service, with Basil Dearden directing a screenplay he wrote with Michael Relph and Jack...
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