Screenplay: Gordon Wellesley

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


Night Train to Munich

1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford

Synopsis When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent...

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Sons of the Sea

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power

Synopsis After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach and eventually joins forces with former rivals but decides the...

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The Green Scarf

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

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Shanghai Madness

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fay Wray · Ralph Morgan · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat...

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The Inheritance

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernard Knowles

Cast Jean Kent · Guy Rolfe · Paul Dupuis · Lana Morris

Synopsis An English governess marries a complete stranger while he is on his deathbed. When he dies, she inherits his estate but is soon involved with some French spies working for Napoleon. Where should her loyalties lie?

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Visa to Canton

1961 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Carreras

Cast Richard Basehart · Lisa Gastoni · Athene Seyler · Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he discovers that the girl has a surprise for him--she wants him to fill his plane with Chinese refugees and fly...

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Mr. Emmanuel

1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Felix Aylmer · Greta Gynt · Walter Rilla · Peter Mullins

Synopsis An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.

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The March Hare

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George More O'Ferrall

Cast Peggy Cummins · Terence Morgan · Martita Hunt · Cyril Cusack

Synopsis Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store...

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Laburnum Grove

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

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Lorna Doone

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Victoria Hopper · John Loder · Margaret Lockwood · Roy Emerton

Synopsis High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

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Love, Life & Laughter

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Gracie Fields · John Loder · Ivor Barnard · Alan Aynesworth

Synopsis Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King (John Loder).

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Sailors Three

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Tommy Trinder · Claude Hulbert · Carla Lehmann · Michael Wilding

Synopsis Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.

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Java Head

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson · J. Walter Ruben

Cast Anna May Wong · Elizabeth Allan · John Loder · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due...

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The Silver Fleet

1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell · Gordon Wellesley

Cast Ralph Richardson · Googie Withers · Esmond Knight · Beresford Egan

Synopsis Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how...

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Freedom Radio

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Clive Brook · Diana Wynyard · Raymond Huntley · Derek Farr

Synopsis Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin....

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This Was Paris

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Harlow

Cast Ann Dvorak · Ben Lyon · Griffith Jones · Robert Morley

Synopsis On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other .

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