Screenplay: Basil Dean

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Basil Dean. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


21 Days

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

5.9

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5.9

151 votes

The Constant Nymph

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

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The Water Gipsies

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

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The Constant Nymph

1928 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Brunel

Cast Mary Clare · Mabel Poulton · Georg Henrich · Benita Hume

Plot Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in...

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1929 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Clive Brook · H. Reeves-Smith · Betty Lawford · Charles Hay

Plot Doctor Watson's daughter(!) Mary is engaged to Roger Longmore, played by neurotic-looking effeminate actor Phillips Holmes, who can't act but certainly knows how to flare his nostrils. Roger is a...

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Penny Paradise

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Betty Driver · Jimmy O'Dea · Ethel Coleridge

Plot A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive...

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Birds of Prey

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Robert Loraine · Warwick Ward · Frank Lawton · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot The story revolves around the murder of Arthur Hilton (played by C. Aubrey Smith) by two men he had arrested many years before whilst working as a policeman in Africa....

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Sensation

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom

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Looking on the Bright Side

1932 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts · Basil Dean

Cast Gracie Fields · Richard Dolman · Julian Rose · Wyn Richmond

Plot Gracie and Laurie are lovers who together form a musical act. Gracie sings and Laurie writes the songs, but when Laurie gets a taste of fame, he runs off after...

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