Writing

Brock Williams

Place of birth

Truro, Cornwall, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Meet Mr. Callaghan poster
6.5

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

Meet Mr. Callaghan

1954

Isn't Life Wonderful! poster
5.4

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

Isn't Life Wonderful!

1953

A Place of One's Own poster
5.8

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

A Place of One's Own

1945

Black Coffee poster
8.0

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Black Coffee

1931

The Root of All Evil poster
7.4

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she can always turn to reliable Joe Bartle in times of need.

The Root of All Evil

1947

I'm A Stranger poster
6.3

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?

I'm A Stranger

1952

Behind the camera

Meet Mr. Callaghan poster
6.5

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

Meet Mr. Callaghan

1954

Isn't Life Wonderful! poster
5.4

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

Isn't Life Wonderful!

1953

A Place of One's Own poster
5.8

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

A Place of One's Own

1945

Black Coffee poster
8.0

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Black Coffee

1931

The Root of All Evil poster
7.4

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she can always turn to reliable Joe Bartle in times of need.

The Root of All Evil

1947

The Root of All Evil poster
7.4

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she can always turn to reliable Joe Bartle in times of need.

The Root of All Evil

1947

I'm A Stranger poster
6.3

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?

I'm A Stranger

1952

I'm A Stranger poster
6.3

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?

I'm A Stranger

1952

Naked Fury poster
7.0

A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl - provoking a serious falling-out and a violent conclusion to the disastrous heist.

Naked Fury

1959

Three Steps In The Dark poster
6.1

A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.

Three Steps In The Dark

1953

The Lackered Box poster
8.0

Fearing the theft of an important secret formula, the scientist Claude Amory asks for help from Monsieur Préval, director of the Sûreté. But when Amory is mysteriously poisoned inside his own home, the detective realizes the case is more serious than he had imagined and decides to investigate each of the suspects.

The Lackered Box

1932

Crime Unlimited poster
6.0

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

Crime Unlimited

1935

Date with Disaster poster
5.9

A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.

Date with Disaster

1958

The Dark Tower poster
6.2

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

The Dark Tower

1943

The Night Won't Talk poster
7.0

When a beautiful young artist's model is strangled in her bed, Scotland Yard find themselves with three suspects -- her sinister ex-husband (Elwyn Brook-Jones), a sexually disturbed artist (Ballard Berkeley) and her violent new boyfriend (John Bailey), who is prone to unexplained blackouts.To catch the killer, the police must set a dangerous trap with the aid of a famous sculptress (Hy Hazell).

The Night Won't Talk

1952

Crown v. Stevens poster
6.5

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.

Crown v. Stevens

1936

Rag Doll poster
5.5

A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.

Rag Doll

1961

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk poster
7.1

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

1935

Meet Mr. Malcolm poster
6.8

Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home -- and when his body is found, the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim?

Meet Mr. Malcolm

1954

No artwork available
10.0

American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.

You Live and Learn

1937

Candlelight in Algeria poster
5.9

Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands

Candlelight in Algeria

1944

Strictly Confidential poster
5.3

Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.

Strictly Confidential

1959

This Was Paris poster
5.9

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

This Was Paris

1942

No artwork available
7.0

An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...

The Wrong Mr. Perkins

1931

The Time of His Life poster
6.7

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!

The Time of His Life

1955

Stormy Crossing poster
5.7

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.

Stormy Crossing

1958

Flying Fortress poster
6.3

Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!

Flying Fortress

1942

The Briggs Family poster
7.0

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

The Briggs Family

1940

Dancing with Crime poster
6.1

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.

Dancing with Crime

1947

The Eternal Feminine poster
9.0

Backstage drama in which the love of a young actress for her crippled husband triumphs.

The Eternal Feminine

1931

Widow's Might poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Widow's Might

1935

Irish for Luck poster
9.0

An impoverished Irish Duchess tries to survive on her small income.

Irish for Luck

1936

Something Always Happens poster
6.5

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Something Always Happens

1934

Wanted! poster
9.0

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.

Wanted!

1937

No artwork available
10.0

Investigation into the murder of a village squire.

The Thirteenth Candle

1933

The Gilded Cage poster
6.8

Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.

The Gilded Cage

1955

Condemned to Death poster
7.0

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

Condemned to Death

1932

No artwork available
9.0

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

The Hundred Pound Window

1944

The Peterville Diamond poster
5.8

Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

The Peterville Diamond

1943

No artwork available
8.0

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.

The Vulture

1937