Screenplay: Philip Mackie

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


The Naked Civil Servant (TV)

1975 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Hurt · Liz Gebhardt · Patricia Hodge · Stanley Lebor

Synopsis The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

7.1

113 votes

7.1

113 votes

The Whole Truth

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Stewart Granger · Donna Reed · George Sanders · Gianna Maria Canale

Synopsis Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max's current off again status is due to...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

The Brain

1962 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Anne Heywood · Peter van Eyck · Cecil Parker · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

4.7

31 votes

4.7

31 votes

All the Way Up

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James MacTaggart

Cast Warren Mitchell · Pat Heywood · Elaine Taylor · Kenneth Cranham

Synopsis Fred Midway (Warren Mitchell) may be a bit short on brains but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman he must make his family more socially acceptable.

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Clue of the New Pin

1961 · Movie · 58 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Allan Davis

Cast Paul Daneman · James Villiers · Katherine Woodville · Bernard Archard

Synopsis TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

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Raffles (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hodson · Jim Goddard · Alan Gibson · David Cunliffe

Cast Anthony Valentine · Christopher Strauli · Victor Brooks · Victor Carin

Synopsis TV Series (1977). 14 episodes. Most people know A.J. Raffles only as a gentleman of leisure and a top-rated cricketer, but he is also "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel thief.

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Direction Cyril Coke

Cast Hywel Bennett · Cheryl Campbell · Belinda Carroll · David Ashford

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1979). 4 episodes. Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is a man who is very careful and very determined. And he is especially determined to not get caught committing the perfect murder of his wife. In the end he succeeds but...

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Shades of Greene (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hammond · Alan Cooke · Alastair Reid · Philip Saville

Cast Denholm Elliott · Shane Briant · Neville Phillips · Ian Hendry

Synopsis TV Series (1975). 18 episiodes

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Clue of the Twisted Candle

1960 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Allan Davis

Cast Bernard Lee · David Knight · Francis De Wolff · Colette Wilde

Synopsis A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.

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Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines

Synopsis This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had...

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The Cleopatras (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Movie · 400 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Frankau

Cast Michelle Newell · Graham Crowden · Helen Sparks · Richard Griffiths

Synopsis An eight-part series depicting the lives of a series of queens of ancient Egypt.

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