Skip to main content
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director 1895 - 1986

Brian Desmond Hurst

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Brian Desmond Hurst was an Irish film director. With over thirty films in his filmography, Hurst was hailed as Northern Ireland's best film director by BBC film critic Mike Catto. He is perhaps best known for the 1951 A Christmas Carol adaptation Scrooge.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

10 titles
His and Hers

His and Hers

Brian Desmond Hurst 1961 1h 22m 6.0

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...

Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask

Brian Desmond Hurst 1958 1h 39m 6.0

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

Malta Story

Malta Story

Brian Desmond Hurst 1953 1h 39m 6.0

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

Scrooge

Scrooge

Brian Desmond Hurst 1951 1h 26m 7.0

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.

The Mark of Cain

The Mark of Cain

Brian Desmond Hurst 1947 1h 28m

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…

Theirs Is the Glory

Theirs Is the Glory

Brian Desmond Hurst 1946 1h 22m 6.0

A re-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War which was later lavishly remade as A Bridge Too Far (1977).

The Lion Has Wings

The Lion Has Wings

Michael Powell, Brian Desmond Hurst 1939 1h 16m

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

On the Night of the Fire

On the Night of the Fire

Brian Desmond Hurst 1939 1h 34m

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man

Brian Desmond Hurst 1936 1h 8m 5.0

George Winters is a self-made man, a wealthy unscrupulous businessman and M.P. for Middlepool who has married into the impoverished nobility for reasons of status. But when his wife threatens to divorce him in public immediately before a general election, a scandal threatens that could endanger his latest bit of shady dealing.

Sensation

Sensation

Brian Desmond Hurst 1936 1h 6m 5.0

Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who devotion to his job is messing up his private life. Despite warnings from his girl friend that she'll walk out if he follows up one more hot scoop, Lodge tries to flush out the murderer of a waitress.

Discussion

Loading the discussion…