Screenplay: Edward Dryhurst
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edward Dryhurst. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
A Stranger in Town
1957 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Pollock
Cast Alex Nicol · Anne Paige · Mary Laura Wood · Mona Washbourne
Plot In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
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Sons of the Sea
1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power
Plot After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach...
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Crimes at the Dark House
1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Tod Slaughter · Sylvia Marriott · Hilary Eaves · Geoffrey Wardwell
Plot A madman murders Sir Percival Glyde. Taking on his victim's identity, the man returns to the Glyde ancestral home, Blackwater Park, in hopes of claiming a large inheritance. However, the...
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Master of Bankdam
1947 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Anne Crawford · Dennis Price · Tom Walls · Stephen Murray
Plot Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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The Case of the Frightened Lady
1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Marius Goring · Penelope Dudley-Ward · Helen Haye · Felix Aylmer
Plot "Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon. The strange behavior of two sinister butlers, Gilder...
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Rhythm Serenade
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Wellesley
Cast Vera Lynn · Peter Murray-Hill · Julien Mitchell · Charles Victor
Plot Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
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The Woman from China
1930 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Dryhurst
Cast Julie Suedo · Gibb McLaughlin · Frances Cuyler · Tony Wylde
Plot This fun and outrageous thriller, set in London's docklands, is stuffed full of secret lairs, trapdoors, jealousy, deceit and corruption. Chang-Li, attracted to an English typist, plots to kidnap her...
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The Man from Morocco
1945 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mutz Greenbaum
Cast Anton Walbrook · Margaretta Scott · Mary Morris · Reginald Tate
Plot A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns...
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Get Cracking
1943 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Dinah Sheridan · Edward Rigby · Frank Pettingell
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The Romantic Age
1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edmond T. Gréville
Cast Mai Zetterling · Hugh Williams · Margot Grahame · Petula Clark
Plot Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the...
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The Patient Vanishes
1941 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lawrence Huntington
Cast James Mason · Mary Clare · Margaret Williams · Gordon McLeod
Plot James Mason as a private detective, whose father is a Scotland Yard man, takes a case involving extortion and kidnapping. A young girl is kidnapped from a nursing home and...
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The House of the Arrow
1953 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Oskar Homolka · Robert Urquhart · Yvonne Furneaux · Josephine Griffin
Plot A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most...
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This Was Paris
1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Harlow
Cast Ann Dvorak · Ben Lyon · Griffith Jones · Robert Morley
Plot On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other .
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Bell Bottom George
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Anne Firth · Reginald Purdell · Peter Murray-Hill
Plot Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three...
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Castle in the Air
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast David Tomlinson · Helen Cherry · Margaret Rutherford · Barbara Kelly
Plot The near-bankrupt Earl of Locharne must contend with a government agent trying to requisition his ancestral Scottish castle, as well as a beautiful American woman who wants to buy the...
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