Screenplay: Murray Smith

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


Hammer House of Horror (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Leaver · Peter Sasdy · Francis Megahy · Tom Clegg

Cast Nicholas Bal · Christopher Cazenove · Peter Cushing · Barbara Kellerman

Plot This British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts and other supernatural wonders. Episodes: - Witching Time -...

6.7

158 votes

6.7

158 votes

Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Wharmby · Baz Taylor · William Brayne · Gerry Mill

Cast Michael Brandon · Glynis Barber · Ray Smith · Tony Osoba

Plot James Dempsey was a tough New York cop who got himself into a lot of trouble by killing his partner during a corruption investigation. With things too hot for him...

5.6

82 votes

5.6

82 votes

Schizo

1976 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pete Walker

Cast Lynne Frederick · John Leyton · Stephanie Beacham · John Fraser

Plot Samantha and Alan are getting married, but William Haskins isn't pleased. He grabs a train south to London and begins shadowing Samantha as she tries to get on with married...

5.4

110 votes

5.4

110 votes

Bear Island (Alistair MacLean's Bear Island)

1979 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Donald Sutherland · Vanessa Redgrave · Richard Widmark · Christopher Lee

Plot A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole...

5.3

330 votes

5.3

330 votes

The Comeback (The Day the Screaming Stopped)

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pete Walker

Cast Jack Jones · Pamela Stephenson · David Doyle · Bill Owen

Plot A singing star returns to England following a six-year absence. Unknown to him, his estranged wife has also returned - only to be brutally murdered by a strange creature in...

4.8

79 votes

4.8

79 votes

The Sell Out

1976 · Movie · 88 min. · Israel

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Oliver Reed · Richard Widmark · Gayle Hunnicutt · Sam Wanamaker

Plot The KGB and the CIA have struck a bargain to eliminate former agents who might prove embarrassing to either of their espionage organizations. The chief of the CIA mission in...

4.4

30 votes

4.4

30 votes

The XYY Man (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

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Die Screaming, Marianne

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pete Walker

Cast Susan George · Barry Evans · Christopher Sandford · Judy Huxtable

Plot After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one...

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Cold War Killers (TV)

1986 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Brayne

Cast Martin Dale · Peter Ivatts · Mike Lane · Terence Stamp

Plot A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.

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Four Dimensions of Greta

1972 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pete Walker

Cast Tristan Rogers · Karen Boyes · Alan Curtis · Robin Askwith

Plot Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.

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Home Before Midnight

1979 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pete Walker

Cast James Aubrey · Alison Elliott · Mark Burns · Juliet Harmer

Plot A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

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Hammer House of Horror: Children of the Full Moon (TV)

1980 · Movie · 52 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Christopher Cazenove · Celia Gregory · Diana Dors · Robert Urquhart

Plot A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old women and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for...

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Frederick Forsyth Presents (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark · Tom Clegg

Cast Alan Howard · Richard Hope · David Threlfall · Mike Farrell

Plot Frederick Forsyth, the internationally acclaimed author of Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Negotiator, is the creator and presenter of this series of six original and exciting...

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Bulman (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Brayne · Bill Gilmour · David Carson · Ken Grieve

Cast Don Henderson · Siobhan Redmond · Dennis Blanch · Thorley Walters

Plot Having left the police force in disgust, the eccentric and bad-tempered detective George Kitchener Bulman (Don Henderson) set himself up as a private investigator in this third appearance of the...

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Chessgame (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Brayne · Ken Grieve · Roger Tucker

Cast Terence Stamp · Carmen du Sautoy · Michael Culver · Robin Sachs

Plot Drama series about the activities of British counter-intelligence agents based on a series of novels by Anthony Price.

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A Little Piece of Sunshine (TV)

1990 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Cellan Jones

Cast Larry Lamb · Chris Cooper · Philip Michael Thomas · Kitty Aldridge

Plot Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of...

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Not rated