Screenplay: John Cresswell
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Cresswell. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Yield to the Night
1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Diana Dors · Yvonne Mitchell · Michael Craig · Marie Ney
Plot A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps...
6.8
61 votes
6.8
61 votes
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Margaret Lockwood · Kay Walsh · Kathleen Harrison
Plot A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of...
6.7
47 votes
6.7
47 votes
The Woman in Question
1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Jean Kent · Dirk Bogarde · John McCallum · Susan Shaw
6.5
65 votes
6.5
65 votes
Adventure in the Hopfields
1954 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Mandy Miller · Hilda Fenemore · Russell Waters · Harold Lang
Plot After accidentally smashing her mother's prized china dog, little London girl Jenny leaves her mother a note, and goes hop-picking to make the money to fix it.
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Three's Company
1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher · Charles Saunders
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Basil Sydney · Elizabeth Sellars · Andrew Osborn
Plot Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ..." (i)"The Surgeon" (ii)"Take A Number" (iii)"The Scream".
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So Little Time
1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Maria Schell · Marius Goring · Lucie Mannheim · Gabrielle Dorziat
Plot In Belgium, during World War II, a young music student and her mother are the only ones left of a large family, the men having all been lost in the...
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Charley Moon
1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Guy Hamilton
Cast Max Bygraves · Dennis Price · Michael Medwin · Florence Desmond
Plot Life and loves of a country boy who makes it on the London stage, but misses home.
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Spare the Rod
1961 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman
Cast Max Bygraves · Donald Pleasence · Geoffrey Keen · Betty McDowall
Plot It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term...
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Port Afrique
1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Pier Angeli · Phil Carey · Dennis Price · Eugene Deckers
Plot Rip Reardon, ex-Army flier, returns to his home in French Morocco and finds his wife dead, and he suspects she has been murdered. Police Colonel Moussac insists she committed suicide....
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Beyond the Curtain
1960 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Richard Greene · Eva Bartok · Marius Goring · Lucie Mannheim
Plot East German refugee Karen finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight she is stewardess on between Berlin and the West is forced down. She is then used...
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