Screenplay: Anatole de Grunwald
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Anatole de Grunwald. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 31
The Winslow Boy
1948 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Robert Donat · Cedric Hardwicke · Basil Radford · Margaret Leighton
Synopsis Autumn 1912, Arthur Winslow has retired from the bank. His wife Grace greets him at home. He scolds his 19-year-old son Dickie, an Oxford student, and complains that his 12-year-old brother Ronnie, accepted for the Royal Naval College at Osborne,...
7.0
99 votes
7.0
99 votes
Pygmalion
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith · Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Wendy Hiller · Wilfrid Lawson · Marie Lohr
Synopsis The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that...
7.0
844 votes
7.0
844 votes
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott
Synopsis It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover...
6.6
66 votes
6.6
66 votes
The Way to the Stars
1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery
Synopsis Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh...
6.6
27 votes
6.6
27 votes
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Libel
1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Olivia de Havilland · Paul Massie · Robert Morley
Synopsis A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interviews with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney. The...
6.5
86 votes
6.5
86 votes
The First of the Few
1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · David Niven · Rosamund John · Roland Culver
Synopsis By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to...
6.1
95 votes
6.1
95 votes
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French
Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton
Synopsis Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy Hiller returns, this time as one of Shaw’s most memorable...
6.0
85 votes
6.0
85 votes
The Doctor's Dilemma
1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Leslie Caron · Dirk Bogarde · Alastair Sim · Robert Morley
Synopsis Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is...
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Golden Arrow
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Burgess Meredith · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Paula Valenska · Kathleen Harrison
Synopsis On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
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Bond Street
1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr
Synopsis 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 London.
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Cottage to Let
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Leslie Banks · Jeanne De Casalis · Carla Lehmann · Alastair Sim
Synopsis A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that...
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Secret Mission
1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast James Mason · Hugh Williams · Carla Lehmann · Roland Culver
Synopsis In this World War II suspense thriller, three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather infor- mation about the German forces for a planned invasion.
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Quiet Wedding
1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Derek Farr · Marjorie Fielding · A.E. Matthews
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French Without Tears
1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Ray Milland · Ellen Drew · Janine Darcey · David Tree
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Jeannie
1941 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Barbara Mullen · Wilfrid Lawson · Gus McNaughton · Phyllis Stanley
Synopsis Jeannie McLean (Mullen) is a Scottish girl who finds that she has received an inheritance. The film follows her adventures of finding her family castle and being romanced by different men.
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Innocents in Paris
1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Alastair Sim · Claire Bloom · Margaret Rutherford · Ronald Shiner
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Women of Twilight
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Freda Jackson · René Ray · Lois Maxwell · Laurence Harvey
Synopsis An unmarried nightclub singer, Vivanne Bruce, is thrown on her own when her lover, Jerry Nolan, is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house ran by "Nellie" Alistair, a ruthless...
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The Holly and the Ivy
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George More O'Ferrall
Cast Ralph Richardson · Celia Johnson · Margaret Leighton · Denholm Elliott
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Home at Seven
1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Richardson
Cast Ralph Richardson · Margaret Leighton · Jack Hawkins · Campbell Singer
Synopsis David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered....
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They Met in the Dark
1943 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Karel Lamac
Cast James Mason · Joyce Howard · Tom Walls · Phyllis Stanley
Synopsis A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
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