Screenplay: John Gilling
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Gilling. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Peter Cushing · June Laverick · Donald Pleasence · George Rose
6.8
302 votes
6.8
302 votes
The Gorgon
1964 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Richard Pasco · Barbara Shelley
Plot Jules Heitz, a professor of literature at Heidelberg University, arrives in the village of Vandorf to investigate the circumstances of his son and his son’s girlfriend’s deaths. He is suspicious...
6.4
911 votes
6.4
911 votes
Wings of Danger
1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Zachary Scott · Robert Beatty · Naomi Chance · Kay Kendall
Plot When Richard Van Ness tries to ground dashing pilot Nick Talbot, his girlfriend's brother, from flying an unimportant cargo run in foul weather, he is blackmailed into allowing it because...
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Kerwin Mathews · Glenn Corbett · Christopher Lee · Peter Arne
Plot In a village of Huguenot refugees, Jonathon Standing is exiled by his father to a nearby penal colony for his improper relationship with a married woman. This penal colony is...
5.6
23 votes
5.6
23 votes
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Anthony Newley · Anne Aubrey · Grégoire Aslan
Plot An engineer must overcome local tribesmen, Arab slave traders and wild animals to build the first East African railway
5.5
134 votes
5.5
134 votes
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Ronald Lewis · Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Duncan Lamont
5.4
117 votes
5.4
117 votes
The Mummy's Shroud
1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast André Morell · John Phillips · David Buck · Elizabeth Sellars
5.2
206 votes
5.2
206 votes
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
1961 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Peter Cushing · John Fraser · Bernard Lee · Michèle Mercier
5.1
49 votes
5.1
49 votes
Odongo
1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Rhonda Fleming · Macdonald Carey · Juma · Eleanor Summerfield
Plot Pamela Muir is a lovely veterinarian, who thinks the animals should run free. Steve Stratton is a hunter, who hires natives to assist with the capture and care of the...
4.9
32 votes
4.9
32 votes
The Bandit of Zhobe
1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Victor Mature · Anne Aubrey · Anthony Newley · Norman Wooland
Plot On the British India a bandit goes on a rampage in the mistaken belief that the British have killed his family, which later proves to not be the case.
4.4
27 votes
4.4
27 votes
Trog
1970 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Freddie Francis
Cast Joan Crawford · Michael Gough · Bernard Kay · Kim Braden
Plot A sympathetic anthropologists uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.
4.2
79 votes
4.2
79 votes
La cruz del diablo
1975 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain
Direction John Gilling
Cast Carmen Sevilla · Adolfo Marsillach · Emma Cohen · Ramiro Oliveros
4.1
84 votes
4.1
84 votes
Recoil
1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Kieron Moore · Elizabeth Sellars · Edward Underdown · John Horsley
Plot Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang who killed her jeweller father, Michael.
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The Frightened Man
1952 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Dermot Walsh · Barbara Murray · Charles Victor · John Blythe
Plot The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks the heart of his...
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Escape by Night
1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Bonar Colleano · Andrew Ray · Sid James · Simone Silva
Plot An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
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No Trace
1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Hugh Sinclair · Dinah Sheridan · John Laurie · Dora Bryan
Plot When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then...
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Dark Interval
1950 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Saunders
Cast Zena Marshall · Andrew Osborn · John Barry · John Le Mesurier
Plot A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seems to be.
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Escape from Broadmoor
1948 · Movie · 38 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast John Stuart · Victoria Hopper · John Le Mesurier · Frank Hawkins
Plot Another forgotten horror film surfaces. A maid is murdered at a forlorn country mansion. Years later, the murderer returns to the scene of the crime where he encounters a chilling...
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The Embezzler
1954 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Charles Victor · Zena Marshall · Cyril Chamberlain · Avice Landone
Plot Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
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House of Darkness
1948 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Oswald Mitchell
Cast Laurence Harvey · Lesley Brook · John Stuart · George Melachrino
Plot A young man visiting a house that turns out to be haunted is terrorized by the ghost of a man who had been murdered there years before.
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