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

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

5.4

117 votes

5.4

117 votes

The Mummy's Shroud

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

5.2

206 votes

5.2

206 votes

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

1961 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

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

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.

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated