Screenplay: Frank Harvey
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Harvey. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
I'm All Right Jack
1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Ian Carmichael · Peter Sellers · Terry-Thomas · Richard Attenborough
Plot Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the...
6.6
131 votes
6.6
131 votes
The Long Memory
1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast John Mills · John McCallum · Elizabeth Sellars · Eva Bergh
Plot 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...
6.4
62 votes
6.4
62 votes
The 39 Steps
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Kenneth More · Taina Elg · Brenda De Banzie · Barry Jones
Plot Second adaptation of the novel by John Buchan, with a more comedy than its predecessor.
6.0
34 votes
6.0
34 votes
Heavens Above!
1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Peter Sellers · Cecil Parker · Isabel Jeans · Ian Carmichael
Plot A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.
5.9
122 votes
5.9
122 votes
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Mylène Demongeot · Michael Craig · Anne Heywood · James Robertson Justice
Plot On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank...
5.0
36 votes
5.0
36 votes
Seagulls Over Sorrento (Crest of the Wave)
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Gene Kelly · John Justin · Bernard Lee · Jeff Richards
Plot A small group of British sailors stationed on a Scottish island engaged in top-secret research on a new and dangerous torpedo are joined by a U.S. Navy scientist, Lt. Brad...
4.8
51 votes
4.8
51 votes
Portrait from Life
1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Mai Zetterling · Robert Beatty · Guy Rolfe · Herbert Lom
Plot A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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The True Glory
1945 · Documentary · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Garson Kanin · Carol Reed
Plot A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan...
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The Day After the Fair (TV)
1986 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Simmons
Cast Jonathan Adams · Veronica Clifford · Sammi Davis · Hannah Gordon
Plot Set in a country town in Victorian England, Edith, who happens to witness the meeting at Salisbury Fair between Charles, a barrister from London, and Anna, her young maid. Being...
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The Love Storm
1931 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast Fay Compton · Frank Harvey · Ian Hunter · Edmund Willard
Plot William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass,...
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Wilcox
Cast Anna Neagle · Hugh Williams · Isabel Jeans · Michael Lawrence
Plot Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Private's Progress
1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Ian Carmichael · Ronald Adam · Henry B. Longhurst · Peter Jones
Plot Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material. This leads...
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Saloon Bar
1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Gordon Harker · Elizabeth Allan · Mervyn Johns · Joyce Barbour
Plot Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that...
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Brothers in Law
1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Richard Attenborough · Ian Carmichael · Terry-Thomas · Jill Adams
Plot Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm.
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Josephine and Men
1955 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Glynis Johns · Jack Buchanan · Donald Sinden · Peter Finch
Plot The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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High Treason
1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Liam Redmond · André Morell · Anthony Bushell · Kenneth Griffith
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It Isn't Done
1937 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia
Direction Ken G. Hall
Cast Cecil Kellaway · Ann Richards · Frank Harvey · John Longden
Plot Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very...
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Danger Within
1959 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Richard Todd · Bernard Lee · Michael Wilding · Richard Attenborough
Plot Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in...
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The World in My Pocket
1961 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Alvin Rakoff
Cast Nadja Tiller · Rod Steiger · Peter van Eyck · Jean Servais
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My Brother's Keeper
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Roome
Cast Jack Warner · Jane Hylton · David Tomlinson · Bill Owen
Plot War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from prison, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and...
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