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
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Jack Hulbert · Cicely Courtneidge · Austin Trevor · Leonora Corbett
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George and Margaret
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Marie Lohr · Judy Kelly · Noel Howlett · Oliver Wakefield
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An Englishman's Home
1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Albert de Courville
Cast Edmund Gwenn · Mary Maguire · Paul Henreid · Geoffrey Toone
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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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