David MacDonald Movies

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

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

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

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

Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is...

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

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.

First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954)

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

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...

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

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

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

A cabaret singer is found dead in her flat and Viscount Brent becomes a suspect. His cousin is convinced of his innocence and with a journalist...

A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....

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

Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're...

The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of...

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...