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Jan Read

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

7 titles
First Men in the Moon

First Men in the Moon

Nathan Juran 1964 1h 43m 7.2

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl

Gerry O'Hara 1963 1h 18m 6.0

That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.

Jason and the Argonauts

Jason and the Argonauts

Don Chaffey 1963 1h 44m 7.8

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.

Grip of the Strangler

Grip of the Strangler

Robert Day 1958 1h 18m 7.7

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

The Flying Scot

The Flying Scot

Compton Bennett 1957 1h 10m 6.0

Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on 'The Flying Scotsman' passenger train, carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.

Blood Orange

Blood Orange

Terence Fisher 1953 1h 16m 5.0

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

Basil Dearden 1950 1h 24m 6.5

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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