Screenplay: Patrick Kirwan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Patrick Kirwan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 32
The Captive Heart
1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns
Synopsis In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners...
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6.5
41 votes
The Drum
1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Sabu · Raymond Massey · Roger Livesey · Valerie Hobson
Synopsis Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries to warn the British of the impending revolt by tapping...
5.9
153 votes
5.9
153 votes
The Dark Eyes of London
1939 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Summers
Cast Bela Lugosi · Hugh Williams · Greta Gynt · Edmon Ryan
Synopsis Scotland Yard inspector Larry Holt is asked to investigate the case of five bodies that have been found in The Thames apparently drowned, during the last eight months. The investigation takes him to the Greenwich Insurance Co with whom many...
5.8
154 votes
5.8
154 votes
Dangerous Exile
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Louis Jourdan · Belinda Lee · Keith Michell · Richard O'Sullivan
Synopsis It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
5.1
43 votes
5.1
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The Hellions
1961 · Movie · 80 min. · South Africa
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Richard Todd · Anne Aubrey · Jamie Uys · Marty Wilde
Synopsis In 19th-century South Africa, a family of hellions--Luke Billings and sons Matthew, Mark, John, and Jubal--ride into the small town of De Wylt where Police Sergeant Sam Hargis is the sole representative of law and order. They shoot a Boer...
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The Fake
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Godfrey Grayson
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Coleen Gray · Hugh Williams · Guy Middleton
Synopsis An American has to guard da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting.
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A Tale of Five Cities
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Romolo Marcellini · Emil E. Reinert · Wolfgang Staudte · Montgomery Tully
Cast Bonar Colleano · Barbara Kelly · Anne Vernon · Karin Himboldt
Synopsis An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the...
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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
Synopsis During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
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On the Night of the Fire
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Ralph Richardson · Diana Wynyard · Romney Brent · Mary Clare
Synopsis A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
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The Chiltern Hundreds
1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Cecil Parker · A.E. Matthews · David Tomlinson · Lana Morris
Synopsis Young Viscount Pym manages to to get an army leave on the pretense of running for the Conservatives in the next local election. His only aim in fact is to marry June, a rich American heiress, before she returns to...
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Up to His Neck
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Ronald Shiner · Brian Rix · Laya Raki · Harry Fowler
Synopsis A story of A.B. picked up by destroyer after being marooned for ten years on Pacific island inhabited by hula girls.
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The 20 Questions Murder Mystery
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Robert Beatty · Rona Anderson · Clifford Evans · Stewart MacPherson
Synopsis BBC Radio's 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass.
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Ships with Wings
1941 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sergei Nolbandov
Cast John Clements · Leslie Banks · Jane Baxter · Ann Todd
Synopsis Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself.
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Broth of a Boy
1959 · Movie · 77 min. · Ireland
Direction George Pollock
Cast Barry Fitzgerald · June Thorburn · Eddie Golden · Geoffrey Quigley
Synopsis A British TV producer is traveling in Ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world. He decides he wants to make a film about this man, but...
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Farewell Again
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Leslie Banks · Flora Robson · Sebastian Shaw · Patricia Hilliard
Synopsis Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again.
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Wings Over Africa
1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ladislao Vajda
Cast Joan Gardner · Ian Colin · James Harcourt · James Carew
Synopsis The plot concerns a British expedition that searches for a cache of buried diamonds in Africa.
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Desperate Moment
1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Mai Zetterling · Philip Friend · Albert Lieven
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Rooney
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Pollock
Cast John Gregson · Muriel Pavlow · Barry Fitzgerald · June Thorburn
Synopsis The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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Alias the Bulldog (Bulldog Sees It Through)
1940 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold Huth
Cast Jack Buchanan · Greta Gynt · Sebastian Shaw · David Hutcheson
Synopsis The armaments production programme is being sabotaged by a gang of Germans. A few arrests are made but the destruction of a vital plant goes on. Test pilot 'Bulldog' Bill Watson plunges headlong into the mystery.
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Johnny Nobody
1961 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nigel Patrick
Cast Nigel Patrick · Yvonne Mitchell · William Bendix · Aldo Ray
Synopsis When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and...
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