Screenplay: Patrick Kirwan

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


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...

6.5

41 votes

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

43 votes

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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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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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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