Writing

Donald Bull

Born — Died

1913-09-21 — 1993-01-01

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

11 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Storm in a Teacup poster
7.4

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Storm in a Teacup

1937

Dear Mr. Prohack poster
6.4

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.

Dear Mr. Prohack

1949

Maigret at Bay poster
NR

Inspector Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.

Maigret at Bay

1969

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery poster
7.2

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

1939

Something in the Cellar poster
NR

Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.

Something in the Cellar

1969

Cheer Boys Cheer poster
6.3

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Cheer Boys Cheer

1939

South Riding poster
6.6

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

South Riding

1938

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9.0

A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!

Dreams Come True

1936

Just Joe poster
10.0

A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.

Just Joe

1960

Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder poster
NR

A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.

Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder

1940