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

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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