Screenplay: David Pursall

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


The Secret Partner

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Stewart Granger · Haya Harareet · Bernard Lee · Hugh Burden

Plot John Brent (Granger) has just learned that his wife Nicole (Harareet) has left him. She picked a bad time too because they're supposed to be hosting a company party in...

6.7

163 votes

6.7

163 votes

The Blue Max

1966 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast George Peppard · James Mason · Ursula Andress · Jeremy Kemp

Plot The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country's most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero...

6.5

610 votes

6.5

610 votes

Murder She Said

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Pollock

Cast Margaret Rutherford · Arthur Kennedy · Muriel Pavlow · James Robertson Justice

Plot Miss Marple witnesses a man strangling a woman through the window of a passing train. However, when police cannot turn up any evidence of the homicide, they dismiss the amateur...

6.4

538 votes

6.4

538 votes

Murder Most Foul

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

6.3

295 votes

6.3

295 votes

Murder Ahoy

1964 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

252 votes

6.0

252 votes

The Southern Star

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast George Segal · Ursula Andress · Orson Welles · Ian Hendry

Plot Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and...

5.4

68 votes

5.4

68 votes

The Alphabet Murders

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

5.0

147 votes

5.0

147 votes

Black Arrow (TV)

1985 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

4.6

91 votes

4.6

91 votes

What Changed Charley Farthing? (El tramposo)

1975 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Hayley Mills · Lionel Jeffries · Doug McClure · Warren Mitchell

Plot Charley Farthing is on the run. Chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind, Charley finds himself hopping on a ship, chased by authorities on a politically turmoiled...

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Kill or Cure

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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Count Five and Die

1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Vicas

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Annemarie Düringer · Nigel Patrick · David Kossoff

Plot American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.

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Carry On England

1976 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Kenneth Connor · Windsor Davies · Patrick Mower · Judy Geeson

Plot Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem...

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Not rated

Village of Daughters

1962 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Pollock

Cast Eric Sykes · Scilla Gabel · Grégoire Aslan · Yvonne Romain

Plot Herbert Harris is a traveling salesman who makes his way into a remote Italian village to sell his wares. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue...

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Not rated