Screenplay: Rodney Ackland

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


49th Parallel

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Plot Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert...

6.7

520 votes

6.7

520 votes

Bank Holiday

1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · John Lodge · Hugh Williams · René Ray

Plot Britons take off for a summer holiday filled with romantic intrigue and dreams of better lives.

6.3

75 votes

6.3

75 votes

The Queen of Spades

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Anton Walbrook · Edith Evans · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Howard

Plot An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about...

6.3

104 votes

6.3

104 votes

Wanted for Murder

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast Eric Portman · Dulcie Gray · Derek Farr · Roland Culver

Plot The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. The young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

Number Seventeen

1932 · Movie · 62 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Leon M. Lion · Anne Grey · John Stuart · Donald Calthrop

Plot This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient who accidentally discovers the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Dangerous Moonlight

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Anton Walbrook · Sally Gray · Derrick De Marney · Cecil Parker

Plot Prologue: in 1940, a shellshocked man fights to recall his past. Flashback: During the Nazi invasion of Poland, American reporter Carole Peters meets Polish airman Stefan Radetzky, also a piano...

5.4

34 votes

5.4

34 votes

Bond Street

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr

Plot A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in...

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Uncensored

1942 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Eric Portman · Phyllis Calvert · Griffith Jones · Raymond Lovell

Plot During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the...

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Hatter’s Castle

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Robert Newton · Deborah Kerr · James Mason · Emlyn Williams

Plot The film is based on the novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin. The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford...

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ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Coke · John Llewellyn Moxey · Joan Kemp-Welch · Tania Lieven

Cast Alfred Burke · Derek Francis · Laurence Hardy · Peter Wyngarde

Plot TV Series (1955-1974). 13 seasons. 610 episodes.

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BBC Play of the Month (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein

Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman

Plot TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes

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The Silent Battle

1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Mason

Cast Rex Harrison · Valerie Hobson · John Loder · Muriel Aked

Plot Aboard a continental express train, Draguisha is the instrument of a terrorist revolutionary party which seeks to kill the prime minister of Bosnia, free its political prisoners, among whom is...

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Love Story

1944 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Stewart Granger · Patricia Roc · Reginald Purdell

Plot When concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday, she meets Kit...

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The Hundred Pound Window

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Anne Crawford · David Farrar · Frederick Leister · Mary Clare

Plot An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and...

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Thursday's Child

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Ackland

Cast Sally Ann Howes · Wilfrid Lawson · Kathleen O'Regan · Stewart Granger

Plot Family tensions arise when a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.

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Performance (TV Series)

1991 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Curtis · David Thacker · Sheree Folkson · Gregory Mosher

Cast Ronald Pickup · Ian Holm · Corin Redgrave · Jane Horrocks

Plot TV Series (1991-1998). 5 seasons.

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Under Your Hat

1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

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George and Margaret

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

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An Englishman's Home

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

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Young Man's Fancy

1939 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Griffith Jones · Anna Lee · Seymour Hicks · Billy Bennett

Plot An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.

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