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

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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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