Screenplay: Arthur Wimperis
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Arthur Wimperis. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Random Harvest
1942 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Ronald Colman · Greer Garson · Philip Dorn · Susan Peters
Plot As the First World War ends a soldier wanders out of a Midlands asylum. Smithy was found in the trenches having lost his memory and all contact with the past....
7.4
933 votes
7.4
933 votes
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Christopher Severn · Richard Ney
Plot A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Korda
Cast Charles Laughton · Binnie Barnes · Robert Donat · Elsa Lanchester
Plot This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Four Feathers
1939 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast John Clements · Ralph Richardson · C. Aubrey Smith · June Duprez
Plot Action-packed story of a young British army officer who fights to preserve his honour after being branded a coward during the war in Egypt in 1898.
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold Young
Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Gardner · Merle Oberon · Raymond Massey
Plot From the famous novel by Baroness Orczy, this is the fictionalized story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the saviour of the French aristocracy during the bloody revolution of the 18th century....
6.6
894 votes
6.6
894 votes
Young Bess
1953 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Jean Simmons · Stewart Granger · Deborah Kerr · Charles Laughton
Plot Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas...
6.4
372 votes
6.4
372 votes
The Divorce of Lady X
1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan
Cast Laurence Olivier · Merle Oberon · Binnie Barnes · Ralph Richardson
Plot Fogbound in a hotel, Leslie Steele tricks handsome, cynical divorce lawyer Everard Logan into sharing his suite. She lets him think she's married; next day Lord Mere, whose thrice- divorced...
6.3
245 votes
6.3
245 votes
Dark Journey
1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Conrad Veidt · Vivien Leigh · Joan Gardner · Anthony Bushell
Plot During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
6.3
65 votes
6.3
65 votes
Knight Without Armour (Knight Without Armor)
1937 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jacques Feyder
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Robert Donat · Irene Vanbrugh · Herbert Lomas
6.1
144 votes
6.1
144 votes
Julia Misbehaves
1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Peter Lawford · Elizabeth Taylor
Plot English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William...
6.1
30 votes
6.1
30 votes
The Drum
1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Sabu · Raymond Massey · Roger Livesey · Valerie Hobson
Plot Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries...
5.9
153 votes
5.9
153 votes
The Rise of Catherine the Great
1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Czinner · Alexander Korda
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Flora Robson · Gerald du Maurier
Plot A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)...
5.6
58 votes
5.6
58 votes
Sanders of the River
1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Leslie Banks · Paul Robeson · Nina Mae McKinney · Martin Walker
Plot British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
5.6
45 votes
5.6
45 votes
Wedding Rehearsal
1932 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Korda
Cast Roland Young · George Grossmith · John Loder · Wendy Barrie
Plot To avoid marriage, a nobleman schemes to marry off the eligible women on his family''s list.
5.5
23 votes
5.5
23 votes
The Red Danube
1949 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Walter Pidgeon · Ethel Barrymore · Peter Lawford · Angela Lansbury
Plot Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the...
5.4
42 votes
5.4
42 votes
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1937 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Hanns Schwarz
Cast Barry K. Barnes · Sophie Stewart · Margaretta Scott · James Mason
5.1
43 votes
5.1
43 votes
The Beloved Vagabond
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Betty Stockfeld · Margaret Lockwood · Desmond Tester
Plot Maurice, a landlord, has to leave his official fiancé, (Joanna Rushworth), played by Betty Stockfeld, because he does not want her fraudulent father to suffer the weight of the law...
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The Girl from Maxim's
1933 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Korda
Cast Frances Day · Lady Tree · Leslie Henson · George Grossmith
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Cash
1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Edmund Gwenn · Wendy Barrie · Robert Donat · Patrick Barr
Plot A schemer and his daughter have lived the high life, but they are out of cash. A last-ditch plan to lure investors goes awry when the electric company shows up...
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Victor Saville
Cast Walter Pidgeon · Margaret Leighton · Robert Beatty · David Tomlinson
Plot With a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an assumed name....
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