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Writer 1907 - 1972

Alec Coppel

Melbourne, Australia

Alec Coppel (17 September 1907 – 22 January 1972) was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent most of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo(1958), The... Read full bio →

Filmography

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7 titles
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Joseph McGrath 1968 1h 33m 5.0

While her husband works, the wife of a bra manufacturer leads a secret life with her lover, whom she conveniently hides in her attic.

Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment

Mervyn LeRoy 1966 1h 48m

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

Vertigo

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock 1958 2h 8m 8.9

An ex-police officer is asked to follow an old friends wife who thinks she is being followed by ghosts. A classic Hitchcock about a man who’s afraid of heights and a woman he must unfortunately follow to great heights.

Appointment with a Shadow

Appointment with a Shadow

Richard Carlson 1957 1h 12m 6.0

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.

The Captain's Paradise

The Captain's Paradise

Anthony Kimmins 1953 1h 34m

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky

Henry Koster 1951 1h 38m 7.0

An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of airplane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number of flying hours due to metal fatigue.

Obsession

Obsession

Edward Dmytryk 1949 1h 36m 7.0

Dr. Clive Riordan's beautiful-but-flirty wife, "Storm", comes home one night in the company of an American diplomat, Bill Kronin. Riordan, obsessed with jealousy, determines to murder his most recent rival and plans, as only a psychiatrist would, to not only kill bill, but to commit the perfect crime in the process.

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