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Writer 1918 - 2000

William Fairchild

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

9 titles
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

John Huston 1973 1h 39m 6.0

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

Star!

Star!

Robert Wise 1968 2h 56m 6.0

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

The Silent Enemy

The Silent Enemy

William Fairchild 1958 1h 52m 8.0

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.

The Extra Day

The Extra Day

William Fairchild 1956 1h 23m 6.0

The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot.

Value for Money

Value for Money

Ken Annakin 1955 1h 30m 6.0

A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

The Net

The Net

Anthony Asquith 1953 1h 26m 6.0

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly.

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.

Gift Horse

Gift Horse

Compton Bennett 1952 1h 35m

In 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.

Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands

Carol Reed 1951 1h 42m

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

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