Muriel Box

Writing

Muriel Box

Born — Died

1905-09-22 — 1991-05-18

Place of birth

Tolworth, Surrey, England

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Muriel Box was an English director and writer.

Known for

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A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

1986

The Blind Goddess poster
5.8

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.

The Blind Goddess

1948

The Truth About Women poster
6.2

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

The Truth About Women

1957

Christopher Columbus poster
5.8

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

Christopher Columbus

1949

Subway in the Sky poster
5.9

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

Subway in the Sky

1959

29 Acacia Avenue poster
6.0

The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.

29 Acacia Avenue

1945

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Blind Goddess poster
5.8

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.

The Blind Goddess

1948

The Truth About Women poster
6.2

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

The Truth About Women

1957

The Truth About Women poster
6.2

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

The Truth About Women

1957

Christopher Columbus poster
5.8

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

Christopher Columbus

1949

Subway in the Sky poster
5.9

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

Subway in the Sky

1959

29 Acacia Avenue poster
6.0

The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.

29 Acacia Avenue

1945

The Happy Family poster
7.8

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

The Happy Family

1952

The Happy Family poster
7.8

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

The Happy Family

1952

The Man Within poster
6.8

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

The Man Within

1947

The Man Within poster
6.8

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

The Man Within

1947

Here Come the Huggetts poster
6.7

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

Here Come the Huggetts

1948

Portrait from Life poster
6.3

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.

Portrait from Life

1948

Simon and Laura poster
5.9

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

Simon and Laura

1955

To Dorothy, a Son poster
5.8

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?

To Dorothy, a Son

1954

The Seventh Veil poster
6.6

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

The Seventh Veil

1945

Too Young to Love poster
7.1

A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.

Too Young to Love

1960

Too Young to Love poster
7.1

A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.

Too Young to Love

1960

The Lost People poster
6.0

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

The Lost People

1949

Street Corner poster
5.5

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

Street Corner

1953

Street Corner poster
5.5

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

Street Corner

1953

Easy Money poster
6.1

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

Easy Money

1948

The Beachcomber poster
6.2

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.

The Beachcomber

1954

Good-Time Girl poster
6.4

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.

Good-Time Girl

1948

Holiday Camp poster
6.8

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

Holiday Camp

1947

The Brothers poster
5.4

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

The Brothers

1947

Rattle of a Simple Man poster
5.6

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards. However, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident.

Rattle of a Simple Man

1964

Dear Murderer poster
5.9

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

Dear Murderer

1947

This Other Eden poster
7.0

A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.

This Other Eden

1959

The Years Between poster
6.7

After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.

The Years Between

1946

The Passionate Stranger poster
5.5

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!

The Passionate Stranger

1957

The Passionate Stranger poster
5.5

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!

The Passionate Stranger

1957

No artwork available
7.0

A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.

Alibi Inn

1935

Eyewitness poster
6.8

Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.

Eyewitness

1956

The Piper's Tune poster
9.0

A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.

The Piper's Tune

1962

A Girl in a Million poster
6.3

A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.

A Girl in a Million

1946

A Girl in a Million poster
6.3

A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.

A Girl in a Million

1946

Daybreak poster
6.0

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Daybreak

1948

No artwork available
6.0

A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".

The Day Begins Early

1950

No artwork available
NR

A typical Verity propaganda short produced for the British Council.

The English Inn

1941