David MacDonald

Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case....

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to...

In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind....

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in...

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In...

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine...

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future...

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where...

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary...

Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.

Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during...

First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954) q.v.

Film directed by David MacDonald

A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing...

A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise" :- (i) "Behind The Mask" (ii) "The Deception" and (iii) "Broken Honeymoon"

Two crime drama tales of plans for a murder gone wrong.

Film directed by David MacDonald

A compilation of episodes, "Set A murderer" and "Yellow Robe", from the TV series "The Vise".

A cabaret singer is found dead in her flat and Viscount Brent becomes a suspect. His cousin is convinced of his innocence and with a journalist...

"There is a crisis in suburban politics because of a store magnate's plans to build a warehouse on the site of the local allotments.

The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of...

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

Popular comedian Claude Dampier is seen at his best here, as he disrupts the sedate peace of Victorian England in his attempt to help a village...

Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series "The Veil" (1958) - "Summer Heat," "Genesis," "Food on the Table," and "Jack the Ripper."

A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise":- (i) "Cruel Test" (ii) "Death on the Boards" and (iii) "The Fair and The Fallen"

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

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Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is...

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In...

Esther and her sister Jennifer have just taken a remote country cottage. But there is strange gossip about the previous occupants.

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...