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Alec Coppel

Writer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alec Coppel (17 September 1907 – 22 January 1972) was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent the majority of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo (1958), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Mr Denning Drives North (1951) and Obsession (1949), and the plays I Killed the Count and The Gazebo.

17-09-1907

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Virgo

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Melbourne, Australia

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Jo

Jo

A writer plots to murder a blackmailer.
6.5

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2019

Unfinished Crime

Unfinished Crime

Essam takes a loan from a contractor to buy a house, but the contractor starts blackmailing and threatening him to pay his debt.
0.0

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1990

Joe: The Busybody

Joe: The Busybody

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
7.2

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1971

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
6.7

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1968

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
6.7

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1968

Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.
5.4

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1966

Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.
5.4

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1966

The Laughing Crime

The Laughing Crime

A comedy about a television director who gets provoked by his uncle to avenge his dead father, but he prefers to let things go and get married to Layla. But he then gets informed that one of the members of the family who killed his father was released form prison and is planning to kill him.
6.5

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1963

The Swordsman of Siena

The Swordsman of Siena

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
2.5

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1962

The Gazebo

The Gazebo

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
6.9

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1960

Vertigo

Vertigo

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
8.2

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1958

Appointment with a Shadow

Appointment with a Shadow

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
5.4

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1957

The Black Knight

The Black Knight

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
6.2

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1954

Hell Below Zero

Hell Below Zero

Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
6.0

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1954

The Captain's Paradise

The Captain's Paradise

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
5.5

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1953

The Captain's Paradise

The Captain's Paradise

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
5.5

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1953

Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
6.0

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1951

Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
6.0

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1951

Two on the Tiles

Two on the Tiles

A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
5.5

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1951

No Highway in the Sky

No Highway in the Sky

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
6.9

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1951

Smart Alec

Smart Alec

A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
8.5

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1951

Obsession

Obsession

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
6.8

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1949

Obsession

Obsession

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
6.8

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1949

Obsession

Obsession

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
6.8

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1949

Brass Monkey

Brass Monkey

Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
5.5

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1948

Woman Hater

Woman Hater

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
7.0

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1948

Just like a Woman

Just like a Woman

A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
0.0

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1939

Over the Moon

Over the Moon

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
5.3

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1939

Vertigo

Vertigo

A retired detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
0.0

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I Killed the Count

I Killed the Count

Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
0.0

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1939