John Dighton

Nacimiento : 1909-12-08, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1989-04-16

Películas

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Screenplay
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
El discípulo del diablo
Screenplay
Adaptación de una conocida obra teatral de Bernard Shaw basada en ciertos hechos ocurridos en 1777. Durante la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos (1775-1783), en la que los colonos de Nueva Inglaterra se sublevaron contra la metrópoli, surgió una estrecha amistad entre un colono americano y un pastor protestante inglés.
Las vírgenes de Wimpole Street
Screenplay
En la Inglaterra victoriana del siglo XIX, la joven poetisa Elizabeth Barret vive recluida en su casa bajo el estricto control de un padre tiránico. Sus desgracias se ven recompensadas cuando se enamora del poeta Robert Browning... Remake de un film de mismo título de 1934 con Norma Shearer y Charles Laughton.
El cisne
Writer
Los días de disfrutar de la vida real de la princesa Beatriz están contados, a menos que su única hija, la princesa Alexandra, cause una buena impresión en un primo lejano cuando le haga una visita sorpresa a su palacio. El príncipe Alberto ha buscado una novia por toda Europa y está aburrido de toda la rutina del noviazgo. Está más interesado en la lechería de la finca que en el jardín de rosas de Alexandra. Y luego comienza a jugar al fútbol con el tutor y los hermanos de Alexandra. Invite al tutor al baile de esa noche y observe con qué gracia baila Alexandra con él.
Vacaciones en Roma
Screenplay
Durante una visita a Roma, Ana, la joven princesa de un pequeño país centroeuropeo que detesta sus obligaciones y desea pasar inadvertida, se escapa de palacio para visitar la ciudad de incógnito. Así conoce a Joe, un periodista americano que busca una exclusiva y finge desconocer su verdadera identidad. La pareja vivirá entonces unas jornadas inolvidables.
Folly to Be Wise
Screenplay
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
Who Goes There!
Screenplay
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
Brandy for the Parson
Screenplay
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
El hombre del traje blanco
Screenplay
Sydney Stratton (Alec Guinness) es un joven investigador que, tras arduos esfuerzos, consigue inventar un tejido tan revolucionario que no se puede romper ni manchar. Sin embargo, a la alegría inicial pronto le sigue la decepción, pues tanto los empresarios como los trabajadores de la industria textil llegan a un acuerdo para impedir la fabricación y difusión del nuevo tejido. La razón es obvia: los primeros temen la ruina de sus empresas y los segundos la pérdida de sus puestos de trabajo.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Screenplay
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Theatre Play
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Ocho sentencias de muerte
Screenplay
Un joven ambicioso y sin escrúpulos (Dennis Price) proyecta vengar la afrenta que la aristocrática familia D'Ascoyne, a la cual pertenece, les ha infligido a él y a su madre. El plan consiste en eliminar a todos los miembros de la familia que le preceden en la sucesión al título de Duque.
Matrimonio de estado
Writer
Después de haberse casado por razones de estado con el heredero del trono inglés, el futuro Jorge I, Sophie Dorotea busca el amor verdadero.
Vida y aventuras de Nicholas Nickleby
Screenplay
Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.
Champagne Charlie
Screenplay
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
My Learned Friend
Screenplay
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Undercover
Screenplay
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
Went the Day Well? (48 Hours)
Screenplay
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Goose Steps Out
Screenplay
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Somewhere In France
Screenplay
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
The Next of Kin
Writer
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Original Story
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Screenplay
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Sailors Three
Screenplay
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Saloon Bar
Writer
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
The Briggs Family
Writer
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
Let George Do It!
Screenplay
Poco después del comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una persona que toca el ukelele (George) toma el barco equivocado y se encuentra en Noruega (aún sin invadir). Una mujer (Mary) lo confunde con un compañero agente de inteligencia británico y se ve involucrado en el intento de derrotar a los agentes nazis.
Hoots Mon
Screenplay
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
Thank Evans
Writer
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.