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...

Max

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.

Max

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....

Max

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

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

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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated