Movies: David MacDonald

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps....

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away m...

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre....

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes....

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going ...

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime....

Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder....

A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters....

Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns....

Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series "The Veil" (1958) - "Summer Heat," "Genesis," "Food on the Table," and "Jack the Ripper."...

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result....

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you ...

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds th...

A Film Directed by David MacDonald .......

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer rea...

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the st...

An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery....

Esther and her sister Jennifer have just taken a remote country cottage. But there is strange gossip about the previous occupants....

Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during World War II finds the Nazis don't respect the lightships' humanitarian purpose....

A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise":- (i) "Cruel Test" (ii) "Death on the Boards" and (iii) "The Fair and The Fallen"...