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
Direction Ken Grieve · Alan Grint · Carol Wilks
Cast Stephen Yardley · Don Henderson · Dennis Blanch · Vivienne McKee
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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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Strangers (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Gilmour · William Brayne · Carol Wilks · Quentin Lawrence
Cast Don Henderson · Dennis Blanch · Fiona Mollison · John Ronane
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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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