Screenplay: Frank Launder

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


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...

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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...

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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.[

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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The W Plan

1930 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

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