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

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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)

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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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