Ian DalrympleFilmography

Mix Me a Person

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith, David Kernan, Frank Jarvis

Synopsis: In this confusing drama, the IRA, intrigue, psychiatric analysis, and a young man framed for murder are thrown together in a series of events that were perhaps originally intended to highlight the psychological aspects of the case under study. One night, eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes (British rock Read More

Hunted in Holland

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: British youngster Scully along with new Dutch friends become entangled in a diamond theft ring while in Holland. The youngsters work to catch the criminals. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Cry from the Streets

Crew: Producer

Actors: Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray, Colin Petersen, Dana Wilson, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Max Bygraves, a popular British comedian who once in a while entertained thoughts of a dramatic career, is costarred with Barbara Murray in A Cry from the Streets. The two play a pair of ingenuous social workers, assigned to one of the grubbiest neighborhoods in London. They join forces to help a Read More

The Admirable Crichton

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton. In this Technicolor adaptation of James M. Barrie's oft-filmed stage play, Kenneth More stars as Crichton, the super-efficient butler for a family of haughty British aristocrats. Though More is true master of the Read More

Hell in Korea

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Baker, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Ronald Lewis

Synopsis: Filmed in Surrey, England, Hell in Korea was shipped out to more conservative movie houses as A Hill in Korea. The title essentially tells all in this no-nonsense account of a group of UN soldiers during the Korean "police action" of the early 1950s. This "skeleton" patrol maintains its tenuous Read More

Raising a Riot

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller

Synopsis: British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young husband and father. When Tony's wife Mary (Shelagh Fraser) takes a trip to Canada, the hapless hubby is left in charge of their three precocious (to put it mildly) children. Read More

Three Cases of Murder

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Badel, Hugh Pryse, John Salew, Leucen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne

Synopsis: The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first segment, "The Picture," was directed by Wendy Toye, based on a short story by Roderick Wilkinson. A museum tour guide, Jarvis (Hugh Pryse), is plagued by artworks going missing Read More

The Heart of the Matter

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott, Peter Finch

Synopsis: Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra Leone during WW II, the film stars Trevor Howard as assistant police commissioner Scobie. While his wife Louise (Elizabeth Allan) is away on vacation, Scobie falls in love with Read More

Maniacs on Wheels

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Renée Ashershon, Bill Owen, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is quite successful, becomes an egomaniac, loses his wife, and learns his lesson. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wooden Horse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Peter Burton

Synopsis: Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for every British POW to attempt escape, internees Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel hit upon a daring scheme. Building an outsized, boxlike vaulting horse Read More

All over the Town

Crew: Producer

Actors: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam, Bryan Forbes

Synopsis: Norman Wooland, who in 1948 made an excellent impression as Horatio in Olivier's Hamlet, is awarded top billing in the 1949 British comedy All Over the Town. A gentle satire of provincial politics, the film stars Wooland as ex-soldier Nat Hearn, who returns to his newspaper job after the war. Read More

Dear Mr. Prohack

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sheila Sim, Dirk Bogarde, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: Cecil Parker is the whole show in Dear Mr. Prohack, just as he'd been in the stage version by Edward Knoblock. The eponymous Prohack is a Royal Treasury official who is an expert at managing other people's money. Alas, when he himself inherits a fortune, Prohack is as financially naïve as a kid Read More

Esther Waters

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton

Synopsis: In this costume melodrama, a virginal maid is impregnated by the footman in the household where they work. He offers to marry her, but then suddenly disappears with another woman. The next few years of the woman's life are spent trying to eke out a living for her and her son. Once again she meets Read More

The Woman in the Hall

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Edward Underdown

Synopsis: A mother provides a lousy example for her daughter in this gritty, realistic drama. The mother is a mistress of manipulating the sympathies of others for her own gain. Rather than working, she solicits the sympathy of others. Like her mother, the daughter is equally manipulative and ends up with a Read More

Once a Jolly Swagman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Renée Ashershon, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Once a Jolly Swagman is the story of Bill Fox (Dirk Bogarde), a factory worker who dreams of fame and fortune as motorbike racer. After the standard romantic complications with "right" and "wrong" girl, the film arrives at its central crisis: Fox's attempts to organize a driver's union, and the Read More

Western Approaches

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Western Approaches was produced by Britain's Crown Film unit, with the cooperation of The Royal Navy. Lensed in vibrant color, this 83-minute documentary is a tribute to the Merchant Seamen of WW2. Merchant convoys from several allied nations are shown in action, under some of the most treacherous Read More

Pimpernel Smith

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Peter Gawthorne

Synopsis: The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also directed) plays bespectacled and seemingly mild-mannered Professor Smith, who under cover of darkness transforms into a tireless defender of democracy. With the help of several Read More

Old Bill and Son

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston, Renee Ray

Synopsis: Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfeather's woebegone WW1 British soldier Old Bill was revived for WW2 in Old Bill and Son. When his son Young Bill (John Mills) signs up for military duty against the Nazis, Old Bill (Morland Graham) tries to re-enlist as well. Turned down for the obvious reasons, Old Bill Read More

The Lion Has Wings

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging German-dictator Adolf Hitler and appeasing British prime minister Neville Chamberlain with stock shots of bleating sheep. The film then depicts Great Britain as a great lion, willing Read More

French Without Tears

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, David Tree, Roland Culver

Synopsis: This Anglo-American coproduction was based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students Read More

Clouds over Europe

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Curzon, George Merritt

Synopsis: This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand test pilot who falls under suspicion when several planes disappear. Costar Ralph Richardson steals the film as a seemingly befuddled secret service operative assigned to Read More

Cheer Boys Cheer

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Cheer Boys Cheer is a provincial British comedy with slight Romeo and Juliet undertones. Edmund Gwenn and Moore Marriott play rival brewery owners who detest the sight of one another. Not so their children--the son of one man, the daughter of the other--who fall in love. One glance at the film's Read More

Lady in Distress

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas, Hartley Power, Patricia Roc

Synopsis: Filmed in 1939 but not put into general release until 1942, Lady in Distress stars Michael Redgrave as an innocent bystander who thinks he's witnessed a murder. In fact, what he's seen is the rehearsal of an illusion conjured up by stage magician Paul Lukas. Sally Gray, Lukas' wife and assistant Read More

The Divorce of Lady X

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Morton Selten

Synopsis: Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of Lady X is at base a trivial little farce, buoyed by the sprightly performances of star Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Ms. Oberon plays a costume-party guest who is forced Read More

South Riding

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, John Clements, Milton Rosmer, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who is trying to keep himself solvent by buying into a real estate plan which he doesn't realize is morally suspect. The original British cut of South Riding ran 90 minutes, but Read More

Pygmalion

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Synopsis: Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland Read More

The Citadel

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to treating the residents of a poverty-stricken Welsh mining community. Tuberculosis runs rampant in the village, and Manson is determined to help stem its tide and bring good Read More

Storm in a Teacup

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison's filmographies. Set in an old-fashioned Scottish town, Storm in a Teacup features Rex Harrison as an English newpaper reporter who has traveled north Read More

Jury's Evidence

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hartley Power, Margaret Lockwood, Nora Swinburne, Sebastian Shaw, Jane Millican

Synopsis: One man's attempts to convince his fellow jurors of the defendant's innocence provides the basis of this drama. The others point out that all the evidence presented proves his guilt, but the man is not swayed. Finally he asks them to reconstruct the crime. They do and find out that the holdout is Read More

The Brown Wallet

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: John Gillespie is a publisher enduring a crisis: his partner has left town with all the firm's money, and Gillespie will be ruined if he cannot come up with capital quickly. With no other resources, he turns to his wealthy Aunt Mary, who is decidedly unsympathetic to his plight and refuses to loan Read More

Radio Lover

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedy, the homely singer hires a handsome pal to lip-sync his songs. They do quite well until their secret is revealed. Even then, they still do well. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Her Last Affaire

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Francis L. Sullivan, Sophie Stewart, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches the sexes of its leading characters so that the protagonist is now a male, Alan Heriot (Hugh Williams). Heriot is the secretary to Sir Julian Weyre (Francis L. Sullivan) a Read More

Prince of Wales

Crew: Dialogue Writer

Synopsis: The future King Edward VIII was still two years away from his brief ascension to the British throne when this 60-minute documentary appeared. Produced with full cooperation of Buckingham Palace (on the proviso that all profits would go to Charity), The Prince of Wales shows the title character at Read More

Evergreen

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay, Hartley Power, Ivor McLaren

Synopsis: The old Ben W. Levy war-horse play Evergreen proved to be an excellent film vehicle from British music-comedy star Jessie Matthews. Our heroine plays a popular music hall thrush of the early 1900s, whose impending marriage into nobility is destroyed by the arrival of her long-thought-dead lover. Read More

The Iron Duke

Crew: Editor

Actors: George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper, A.E. Matthews, Allan Aynesworth

Synopsis: The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with the usual glossovers and embellishments, of course). Arliss plays the Duke of Wellington, the brilliant and foresighted British diplomat -- warrior of the Napoleonic Era. Read More

Channel Crossing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matheson Lang, Constance Cummings, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Dickson, Nigel Bruce, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: In this drama a rich banker loses his fortune in the stock market. His secretary's lover finds out that the banker has been using fake bonds to make a deal. The opportunistic young lout then begins threatening to blackmail the financier. In a panic, the banker tosses the extortionist overboard. Read More

The Ghoul

Crew: Editor

Actors: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernst Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his deathbed insists that he be buried with a rare jewel that was once part of an Oriental idol. It is Morant's belief that the gem will one day restore him to life, a contingency Read More

Rome Express

Crew: Editor

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, Donald Calthrop, Frank Vosper, Hugh Williams

Synopsis: Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among Read More

The Good Companions

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne, Max Miller, Percy Parsons

Synopsis: Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes of a floundering touring theatrical troupe. Inigo Jolifant (John Gielgud) is a schoolteacher with a talent for songwriting, and Jess Oakroyd (Edmund Gwenn) is a man with Read More

The Woman in Command

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Edward Everett Horton, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Hyson, Frank Cellier, Bransby Williams

Synopsis: The Woman in Command in this well-appointed British musical is vaudeville star Maisie Marvello, played by Cicely Courtenedge. Born into a theatrical family that dates back to the 16th century, Maisie has every intention of carrying on the tradition into the 1930s, even though money is in short Read More

Night and Day

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Winifred Shotter, Francis Lister, Peter Gawthorne

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a clumsy young man must make do by joining the police force instead of Scotland Yard like his father, who thinks the boy is ill-suited to be a detective. His father may well be right, yet, somehow, the lad manages to stumble after some famed jewel thieves and redeem Read More

The Man They Couldn't Arrest

Crew: Editor

Actors: Hugh Wakefield, Nicholas Hannen, Gordon Harker, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: An inventive amateur detective devises a listening device that allows him to eavesdrop on criminals. The trouble begins when he overhears the notorious Black Pearl gang planning their latest heist. Much to his surprise, one of the gangsters is the father of his fiancee. He then hears a murder Read More

The Cuckoo in the Nest

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this film, an inn is filled to capacity and a couple must spend the night together in a room. The problem is that both of them are married to other people; before that, they had been engaged to each other. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lord Babs

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Ship's steward Howes unhappily inherits an earldom and a fortune and his friend Dempster convinces Howes to revert back to his youth. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Michael and Mary

Crew: Editor

Actors: Frank Lawton, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Edna Best, D.A. Clarke-Smith

Synopsis: This romance, based on a surprisingly sophisticated story by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne, teams up Herbert Marshall with his then-wife Edna Best. Best is Mary Price, deserted by her husband when he leaves England to seek his fortune during the Boer War in 1900. Destitute and desperate, she Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Crew: Editor

Actors: Elizabeth Vaughan, John Stuart, Reginald Bach

Synopsis: This first talkie version of Conan Doyle's classic thriller The Hound of the Baskervilles stars Robert Rendel as master detective Sherlock Holmes. Though the story has been modernized, the basic sequence of events remains. After being apprised of the curse of the Baskervilles by Dr. Mortimer Read More

The Ghost Train

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Donald Calthrop, Ann Todd, Cyril Raymond, Allan Jeayes

Synopsis: In this British drama, a superstitious group of people, stranded in a lonely, isolated train station are frightened by the distant rumble and roar of what they think is a "ghost train." But the train is very real; it is only its contents that should frighten them as a detective reveals that it is Read More

The Office Girl

Crew: Editor

Actors: Owen Nares, Renate Muller, Jack Hulbert, Morris Harvey

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as The Office Girl, Sunshine Susie is the English-language version of the German comedy hit Die Privatsekretarian. The charming Renate Muller repeats her role from the German version as Susie, the perky new stenographer for a stuffy Viennese banking firm. Here she falls in Read More

Taxi for Two

Crew: Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a poor but honest young woman finds an aristocrat's missing necklace. She returns it to the lady and is given a reward which she uses to buy a taxi. The lady's son has a crush on the girl and gets hired on as her driver. Romance ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More