Screenplay: Miles Malleson

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


The First of the Few

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · David Niven · Rosamund John · Roland Culver

Plot By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after...

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Sally in Our Alley

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

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The Water Gipsies

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

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Peg of Old Drury

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Margaretta Scott · Maire O'Neill · Dorothy Robinson

Plot Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.

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Yellow Canary

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Richard Greene · Nova Pilbeam · Albert Lieven

Plot In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by...

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Victoria the Great

1937 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

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Tudor Rose

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · John Mills · Felix Aylmer · Leslie Perrins

Plot A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted) to her brief reign as monarch of England and finally to her beheading. The film...

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Rhodes of Africa

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

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Lorna Doone

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Victoria Hopper · John Loder · Margaret Lockwood · Roy Emerton

Plot High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

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The Rat

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Raymond

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Anton Walbrook · René Ray · Beatrix Lehmann

Plot Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his...

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Nell Gwyn

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Cedric Hardwicke · Jeanne De Casalis · Muriel George

Plot King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of...

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They Met in the Dark

1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Lamac

Cast James Mason · Joyce Howard · Tom Walls · Phyllis Stanley

Plot A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He...

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A Night in Montmartre

1931 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

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Action for Slander

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Whelan · Victor Saville

Cast Clive Brook · Ann Todd · Margaretta Scott · Arthur Margetson

Plot an army officer is falsely accused at cheating at cards by a man whose wife he had an affair with and struggles to clear his name.

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Night Birds

1931 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Eichberg

Cast Jack Raine · Muriel Angelus · Jameson Thomas · Eve Gray

Plot (1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective...

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Perfect Understanding

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Gardner

Cast Gloria Swanson · Laurence Olivier · John Halliday · Nigel Playfair

Plot A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to...

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For Freedom

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey · Castleton Knight

Cast Will Fyffe · Anthony Hulme · E.V.H. Emmett · Guy Middleton

Plot A semi-dramatized compilation showing major political and cultural events of the twentieth century leading to the outbreak of World War II.

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They Flew Alone

1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Robert Newton · Edward Chapman · Nora Swinburne

Plot The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator...

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Sixty Glorious Years

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Anton Walbrook · C. Aubrey Smith · Walter Rilla

Plot Picking up where "Victoria the Great" left off, this sequel to the 1938 film returns Anna Neagle to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered...

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Pastor Hall

1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Boulting

Cast Wilfrid Lawson · Nova Pilbeam · Seymour Hicks · Marius Goring

Plot This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf...

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