Screenplay: Frank Launder
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Frank Launder. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 33
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas
Synopsis While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
Night Train to Munich
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford
Synopsis When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent...
6.5
301 votes
6.5
301 votes
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Deborah Kerr · Trevor Howard · Raymond Huntley · Liam Redmond
Synopsis Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a...
6.4
67 votes
6.4
67 votes
The Green Man
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Day
Cast Alastair Sim · George Cole · Terry-Thomas · Jill Adams
Synopsis Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green...
6.2
26 votes
6.2
26 votes
We Dive at Dawn
1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast John Mills · Louis Bradfield · Ronald Millar · Jack Watling
Synopsis The crew of HMS submarine Sea Tiger have their leave (and assorted family problems) cut short when they are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German battleship Brandenburg. En route, they learn that their target has entered the...
6.1
28 votes
6.1
28 votes
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Robert Donat · Robert Morley · Phyllis Calvert · John Mills
Synopsis In 1783, the English Parliament is led by the coalition of Charles James Fox and Lord North. King George III, who dislikes them, is pleased when they begin to lose power and decides to install William Pitt, the Younger as...
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole
Synopsis The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie...
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
Seven Sinners
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Albert de Courville
Cast Edmund Lowe · Constance Cummings · Thomy Bourdelle · Henry Oscar
Synopsis US private eye sorts out European crime wave. With female sidekick in tow, wisecracking private eye follows a trail of corpses around Europe, shaking up a sinister criminal network which will stop at nothing, even causing major train wrecks to...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Uncensored
1942 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Eric Portman · Phyllis Calvert · Griffith Jones · Raymond Lovell
Synopsis During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Gordon Harker · Alastair Sim · Linden Travers · Wally Patch
Synopsis During a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh (Harker) and Sergeant Bingham (Sim) grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.[
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
1960 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Cecil Parker · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Eric Barker
Synopsis When the school burns to the ground there's clearly been some arson around. The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious child psychiatrist. The sixth form are soon kidnapped and on...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Gilliat · Frank Launder
Cast Frankie Howerd · Dora Bryan · George Cole · Reg Varney
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Kipps
1941 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Philip Frost · Michael Redgrave · Diana Wynyard · Diana Calderwood
Synopsis Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
The Blue Lagoon
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Jean Simmons · Donald Houston · Susan Stranks · Peter Rudolph Jones
Synopsis Two children are shipwrecked on a desert-island and fall in love while growing up together.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Folly to Be Wise
1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Elizabeth Allan · Roland Culver · Colin Gordon
Synopsis A newly-arrived army padre is put in charge of camp entertainment.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
Two Thousand Women
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Flora Robson · Patricia Roc · Renee Houston
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
You Made Me Love You
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Monty Banks
Cast Stanley Lupino · Thelma Todd · John Loder · Gerald Rawlinson
Synopsis A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Margaret Rutherford · Guy Middleton
Synopsis Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
A Girl Must Live
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Renee Houston · Lilli Palmer · George Robey
Synopsis A girl runs away from her Swiss finishing-school to go on the stage under a false name just as a rich young rubber-planter returns to England to inherit a title... with her fellow lodgers and chorus-girls both determined to get...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
The W Plan
1930 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Brian Aherne · Madeleine Carroll · George Merritt · C.M. Hallard
—
Not rated
—
Not rated