Writing

Scott Swanton

Known for

Writing

Credits

11 titles

Known for

Murder in Three Acts poster
6.0

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Murder in Three Acts

1986

Murder: By Reason of Insanity poster
5.7

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

1985

Death in Small Doses poster
6.5

One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.

Death in Small Doses

1995

A Promise to Carolyn poster
7.1

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

A Promise to Carolyn

1996

Race for Glory poster
7.1

A member of an up and coming motorcycle racing team abandons his teamates to join a rival team. He ends up playing second fiddle to the champion of the new team. Not satisfied, and against the wishes of his new boss, he tries to beat the champion but fails. He leaves racing, eventually to return and reunite with his old friends in an attempt to win the Grand

Race for Glory

1989

Nightmare at Bittercreek poster
6.3

In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.

Nightmare at Bittercreek

1988

Behind the camera

Murder in Three Acts poster
6.0

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Murder in Three Acts

1986

Murder: By Reason of Insanity poster
5.7

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

1985

Death in Small Doses poster
6.5

One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.

Death in Small Doses

1995

A Promise to Carolyn poster
7.1

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

A Promise to Carolyn

1996

Race for Glory poster
7.1

A member of an up and coming motorcycle racing team abandons his teamates to join a rival team. He ends up playing second fiddle to the champion of the new team. Not satisfied, and against the wishes of his new boss, he tries to beat the champion but fails. He leaves racing, eventually to return and reunite with his old friends in an attempt to win the Grand

Race for Glory

1989

Nightmare at Bittercreek poster
6.3

In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.

Nightmare at Bittercreek

1988

Nightmare at Bittercreek poster
6.3

In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.

Nightmare at Bittercreek

1988

Finding the Way Home poster
8.2

Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out. On top of that he owns an antique hardware store which is close to bankruptcy. While driving home Max is involved in a traffic accident which gives him amnesia. Confused, lost and in a disordered state, he wanders into a camp full of Latin American farm workers. There he finds a new meaning of life, happiness and a sense of belonging. However, as his memory slowly returns, it's inevitable that he must confront his past.

Finding the Way Home

1991

Not Our Son poster
7.0

A Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.

Not Our Son

1995

A Father for Brittany poster
7.6

Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.

A Father for Brittany

1998

The Killing of Randy Webster poster
6.0

When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.

The Killing of Randy Webster

1981