David Pursall (Writer)

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Release Date1962-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Consultant

Vote Count1034

The Blue Max

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Release Date1966-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count120

Murder She Said

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Release Date1961-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count240

Murder Most Foul

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.

Release Date1964-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count174

The Secret Partner

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

Release Date1961-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count16

Village of Daughters

A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.

Release Date1962-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Release Date1965-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count49

Murder Ahoy

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Release Date1964-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count159

Kill or Cure

A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.

Release Date1962-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

The Southern Star

Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.

Release Date1969-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Tomorrow Never Comes

Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...

Release Date1978-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

Carry On England

Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...

Release Date1976-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count46

Black Arrow

In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival houses who want the throne. Fresh from battle, a knight finds his family dead. He joins the outlaws led by the Black Arrow (Stephan Chase) to seek justice. The noble Black Arrow foils Sir Brackley's (Oliver Reed) plan to kill one ward (Benedict Taylor) and marry the other. This is a classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson turned into film by Disney pictures.

Release Date1985-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Count Five and Die

Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.

Release Date1957-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

It's Murder. But Is It Art?

It's Murder. But Is It Art? is a 1976 six-part comedy thriller serial written by David Pursall and Jack Seddon, and produced for BBC One. It stars Arthur Lowe, John Gower, Dudley Foster, Arthur Howard, and Anthony Sagar. Eccentric artist-turned-detective called Phineas Drake investigates when beautiful blonde Tina Kent is discovered murdered in the drawing-room of Brigadier Austin Binghop. Insp. Hook is convinced that Binghop is the culprit and takes him into custody. However, Mr Drake thinks otherwise and places himself in considerable personal jeopardy – with the trail leading him to the house of Chelsea socialite Mrs MacPherson. Barring some low-quality, off-air recorded monochrome trailers from the time, the entire series is believed to be lost.

Release Date1972-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

What Changed Charley Farthing?

Charley Farthing is on the run. Chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind, Charley finds himself hopping on a ship, chased by authorities on a politically turmoiled island and forced to skipper an old ship all the way to Ireland.

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1