Screenplay: Ted Willis
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ted Willis. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
It's Great to Be Young!
1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cyril Frankel
Cast John Mills · Cecil Parker · John Salew · Elizabeth Kentish
Plot Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band (partly because of Dingle's fondness of more modern...
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
Flame in the Streets
1961 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast John Mills · Sylvia Syms · Brenda De Banzie · Earl Cameron
Plot A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After...
6.4
51 votes
6.4
51 votes
Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ted Willis · Douglas Moodie · Vere Lorrimer · David Askey
Cast Jack Warner · Peter Byrne · Geoffrey Adams · Jeanette Hutchinson
Plot 432 episodes (1955-1976). Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common...
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Smart
Cast John McCallum · Honor Blackman · Patrick Holt · Diana Dors
Plot When a local cycle club, invite a couple of new members to join them, little do the club realise, that they will soon be involved in a couple of illegal...
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Our Miss Fred
1972 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bob Kellett
Cast Danny La Rue · Alfred Marks · Lance Percival · Lally Bowers
Plot Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He...
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Up to His Neck
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Ronald Shiner · Brian Rix · Laya Raki · Harry Fowler
Plot A story of A.B. picked up by destroyer after being marooned for ten years on Pacific island inhabited by hula girls.
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Yvonne Mitchell · Anthony Quayle · Sylvia Syms · Andrew Ray
Plot Amy and Jim Preston have been married for twenty years but, in her husband's eyes, she has become sloppy both about the house and herself. Jim has no problems with...
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The Undefeated
1949 · Documentary · 35 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Dickson
Cast Gerald Pearson · Leo Genn · Arthur Hill · Noel Coleman
Plot Documentary film short about the men and women who were disabled during the two World Wars.
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Trouble in Store
1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Norman Wisdom · Moira Lister · Megs Jenkins · Jerry Desmonde
Plot Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition, he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst...
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The Adventures of Black Beauty (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton · Alan Gibson · Gerry Poulson · John Reardon
Cast William Lucas · Charlotte Mitchell · Roderick Shaw · Michael Culver
Plot Black Beauty is a pure black, thoroughbred horse in late 19th Century rural England who is adopted into the household of James Gordon, a local doctor and widower, and befriended...
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Good-Time Girl
1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Jean Kent · Dennis Price · Herbert Lom · Peter Glenville
Plot A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. She runs away with two GI's who are also...
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The Large Rope
1953 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wolf Rilla
Cast Donald Houston · Susan Shaw · Robert Brown · Vanda Godsell
Plot A wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again.
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No Trees in the Street
1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Sylvia Syms · Herbert Lom · Melvyn Hayes · Ronald Howard
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Bitter Harvest
1963 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Graham Scott
Cast Janet Munro · John Stride · Alan Badel · Anne Cunningham
Plot A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price...
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The Huggetts Abroad
1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Jack Warner · Kathleen Harrison · Dinah Sheridan · Susan Shaw
Plot Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the...
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Top of the Form
1953 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Ronald Shiner · Harry Fowler · Anthony Newley · Alfie Bass
Plot Some trouble with gambling forces con man Fortescue to hide out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few...
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One Good Turn
1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Norman Wisdom · Joan Rice · Shirley Abicair · Thora Hird
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