Robin Estridge Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter

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Permission to Kill

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan

Synopsis: Yet another in the stable of spy movies which depict espionage as a dirty business. Here, we have Dirk Bogarde heading the "Western Intelligence Liaison" his specific task is to keep the head of a radical third-world organization from returning to his country. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Eye of the Devil

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Edward Mulhare, Flora Robson

Synopsis: A fine cast distinguishes this unusual supernatural thriller. When London-based vintner Phillippe de Montfaucon (David Niven) receives the bad news that dry weather is expected to destroy crops in his vineyard in France for the third year in a row, he immediately leaves for his castle on the Read More

1967
The Boy Cried Murder

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A young lad with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder. Unfortunately no one believes him--except the killer. This drama, set within a resort community on the Adriatic Sea is a remake of the Read More

1966
Drums of Africa

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes place on the east, equatorial region of the so-called "dark continent," in 1897. The story features Mariette Hartley as Ruth Knight and Lloyd Bochner as David, an engineer and Read More

1963
Escape from Zahrain

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden, Madlyn Rhue, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Essentially a chase film from beginning to end, this standard adventure yarn by director Ronald Neame is set in "Zahrain," a barely-disguised Middle Eastern nation. Sharif (Yul Brynner) is a rebel who has taken up arms against the country's corrupt government and the forces of Western imperialism. Read More

1962
No Kidding

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This is one of the rare comedies by director Gerald Thomas that does not have the words "Carry On...." in the title, and that is the first indication that the wacky, hare-brained, ribald core of the "Carry On" series is missing here. The premise is that a young couple, David and Catherine Robinson Read More

1960
Northwest Frontier

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, I.S. Johar

Synopsis: Northwest Frontier was the original British title for Flame Over India. When the Moslems attack a British fortress in colonial India, it is imperative that the local Maharaja's son be taken to safety. The man for the job is commander Kenneth More, who uses a rusty old train for that purpose. Among Read More

1959
Campbell's Kingdom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce Campbell, a British aristocrat who has been given only six months to live. Inheriting a financially troubled Canadian valley, Campbell finds a new lease on life as he Read More

1957
Dangerous Exile

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the opulent British swashbuckler Dangerous Exile. Louis Jourdan stars as the Duc de Beauvais, who manages, at great personal sacrifice, to smuggle the son (Richard O'Sullivan) of Read More

1957
Checkpoint

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy, this pulse-pounding race-car melodrama stars Anthony Steel as ambitious driver Bill Fraser. Stanley Baker costars as O'Donovan, the purchasing agent for unscrupulous auto magnate Warren Ingram (James Robertson Justice). O'Donovan has no reservations about resorting to murder to Read More

1957
Simba

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are targeted for extermination by the zealously nationalistic Mau Maus. Native doctor Joseph Tomelty, whose brother had earlier been killed under questionable Read More

1955
Above Us the Waves

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Michael Medwin

Synopsis: Judging by the number of times it has shown up on TV, Above Us the Waves may be American viewers' favorite British war film. Most of the film is set in a British midget submarine, commandeered by John Mills. The sub's mission (together with its "fellow" vessels) is to sink the German battleship Read More

1955
Chance Meeting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Odile Versois, David Knight, Joseph Tomelty, Paul Carpenter, Theodore Bikel, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Also known as Chance Meeting, The Young Lovers can be described as an Iron Curtain romance. The boy, Ted (David Knight), works as a code expert at the American Embassy in London. The girl, Anna (Odelle Versois), is the daughter of a communist dignitary. When Ted and Anna fall in love, they find Read More

1954
A Day to Remember

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, James Hayter

Synopsis: Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver (Donald Sinden Read More

1953
House of Darkness

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. He then throws his wife and his other step-brother out of the house. But his actions do Read More

1948