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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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