Screenplay: Muriel Box
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Muriel Box. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Years Between
1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie
6.8
24 votes
6.8
24 votes
Dear Murderer
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Crabtree
Cast Eric Portman · Greta Gynt · Dennis Price · Jack Warner
Plot When successful business man Lee Warren suspects his wife is having an affair, he sets out find her lover, kill him, and make it look like suicide. Complications set in,...
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
The Seventh Veil
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott
Plot A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor,...
6.5
156 votes
6.5
156 votes
Daybreak
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Ann Todd · Eric Portman · Maxwell Reed · Edward Rigby
Plot A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's...
6.2
22 votes
6.2
22 votes
Christopher Columbus
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Fredric March · Florence Eldridge · Francis L. Sullivan · Kathleen Ryan
Plot Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
4.9
21 votes
4.9
21 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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Here Come the Huggetts
1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Jack Warner · Kathleen Harrison · Jane Hylton · Susan Shaw
Plot The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp, this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone...
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Easy Money
1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Knowles
Cast Jack Warner · Marjorie Fielding · Yvonne Owen · Jack Watling
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Holiday Camp
1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Flora Robson · Dennis Price · Jack Warner · Hazel Court
Plot Mr. and Mrs. Average British Family...if the average British family consists of a husband, wife, widowed daughter and an adventurous son...go to a holiday camp, and encounter many people who...
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The Passionate Stranger
1957 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Ralph Richardson · Margaret Leighton · Patricia Dainton · Carlo Giustini
Plot Judith Wynter (Leighton) is a novelist who pens torrid escapist romantic fiction for the popular women's market, although in real life she is a respectable, unassuming woman, happily married to...
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29 Acacia Avenue
1945 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast Gordon Harker · Betty Balfour · Jimmy Hanley · Carla Lehmann
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A Girl in a Million
1946 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Francis Searle
Cast Hugh Williams · Joan Greenwood · Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne
Plot A young scientist had a divorce from his wife and isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give...
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Good-Time Girl
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Jean Kent · Dennis Price · Herbert Lom · Peter Glenville
Plot A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. She runs away with two GI's who are also...
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The Man Within
1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Knowles
Cast Michael Redgrave · Jean Kent · Joan Greenwood · Richard Attenborough
Plot Told in flashback, the film opens on a brutal scene of a 17-year-old boy, Francis Andrews, being brutally lashed during a police interrogation in which the boy thinks back to...
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When the Bough Breaks
1947 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lawrence Huntington
Cast Patricia Roc · Rosamund John · Bill Owen · Brenda Bruce
Plot Emotional strains of adoption. A young mother hands over her baby to foster parents, but struggles to let go emotionally. Her obsession affects the lives of those around her, including...
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The Happy Family
1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Stanley Holloway · Kathleen Harrison · Naunton Wayne · Dandy Nichols
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The Brothers
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Patricia Roc · Will Fyffe · Maxwell Reed · Finlay Currie
Plot The MacFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent...
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Too Young to Love
1960 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Thomas Mitchell · Pauline Hahn · Joan Miller · Austin Willis
Plot A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
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The Truth About Women
1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Laurence Harvey · Julie Harris · Diane Cilento · Mai Zetterling
Plot A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
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The Blind Goddess
1948 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Eric Portman · Anne Crawford · Hugh Williams · Michel Dennison
Plot Lord Brasted is in charge of a postwar fund for displaced persons. His secretary, Derek Waterhouse, visits the Prime Minister to accuse Brasted of taking money from the fund. This...
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