Screenplay: Sydney Box

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


The Years Between

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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,...

Max

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

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 Beachcomber

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Glynis Johns · Robert Newton · Donald Sinden · Paul Rogers

Plot Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious,...

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Forbidden Cargo

1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Jack Warner · Nigel Patrick · Elizabeth Sellars · Terence Morgan

Plot Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

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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

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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

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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

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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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A King's Story

1967 · Documentary · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Booth

Plot Life story of King Edward VIII from his birth until abdication in 1936. Talks of life in Victorian England, life in the Royal Navy, and travels as Prince of Wales....

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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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