Screenplay: Philip Mackie
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Philip Mackie. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 15
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
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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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Malice Aforethought (TV Miniseries)
1979 · Movie · 200 min. · United Kingdom
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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Edgar Wallace Mysteries (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Llewellyn Moxey · Robert Tronson · Gerard Glaister · Allan Davis
Cast Bernard Lee · Allan Cuthbertson · Bernard Archard · John Carson
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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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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
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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The Caesars (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Derek Bennett
Cast Freddie Jones · Caroline Blakiston · William Corderoy · André Morell
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Thérèse Raquin (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Movie · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Langton
Cast Kate Nelligan · Mona Washbourne · Brian Cox · Richard Pearson
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Paris 1900 (TV Miniseries)
1964 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Silvio Narizzano
Cast Alfred Marks · Adrienne Corri · Zena Walker · Kenneth Griffith
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