Screenplay: John Prebble
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Prebble. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Elizabeth R (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roderick Graham
Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley
Plot When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions...
7.0
90 votes
7.0
90 votes
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1970 · Series · 540 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Naomi Capon · John Glenister
Cast Keith Michell · Anthony Quayle · Patrick Troughton · Bernard Hepton
Plot A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.
6.9
119 votes
6.9
119 votes
Zulu
1964 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Stanley Baker · Michael Caine · Jack Hawkins · Ulla Jacobsson
Plot Based on an actual historic event, this is the story of a group of British soldiers stationed in Africa who are forced to defend their tiny outpost against an attack...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
Mysterious Island
1961 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Michael Craig · Herbert Lom · Joan Greenwood · Gary Merrill
Plot In 1865 at the height of the American Civil War, a group of captured Union soldiers make an escape in a balloon. But the balloon is caught in a storm...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
White Feather
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Robert D. Webb
Cast Robert Wagner · John Lund · Debra Paget · Jeffrey Hunter
Plot The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when one the officers falls for the...
5.5
177 votes
5.5
177 votes
Sky West and Crooked
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Mills
Cast Hayley Mills · Ian McShane · Annette Crosbie · Laurence Naismith
Plot A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.
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Penmarric (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tina Wakerell · Derek Martinus
Cast Annabel Leventon · Peter Blake · Thomas Ellice · Rupert Frazer
Plot Maud Penmar Castallack wages war on her cousin Giles for many years in her determination to secure Penmarric for her son, Mark. But Mark is a man of passion and...
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Studio 57 (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis
Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong
Plot This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.
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The Borgias (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Movie · 1981 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Farnham
Cast Oliver Cotton · Maurice O'Connell · Louis Selwyn · Adolfo Celi
Plot 10 episodes. Historical story of the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia a man who intends to become Pope and who will not let anything stand in his way.
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The Three Hostages (TV)
1977 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Barry Foster · Diana Quick · John Castle · Peter Blythe
Plot A film adaptation of the the fourth installment if John Buchan's Richard Hannay series.
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