Allan Scott
Allan Scott (born September 16, 1939, as Allan George Shiach) is a Scottish screenwriter and producer for film and television.
Works
You're Cordially Invited
When two weddings are accidentally booked on the same day at the same venue, each bridal party is challenged with preserving their family's special moment while making the most of the unanticipated tight quarters. In a hilarious battle of determination and grit, the father of the bride and sister of the other bride chaotically go head-to-head as they stop at nothing to uphold an unforgettable celebration for their loved ones.
Release Date: 2025-01-29
Character: Puppeteer
Vote Count: 347
The Spirit of 1926
In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.
Release Date: 2022-11-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Creating The Queen's Gambit
A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.
Release Date: 2021-01-10
Character: Self - Co-Creator
Vote Count: 132
The Queen's Gambit
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
Release Date: 2020-10-23
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 4896
Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
New featurette, writer/director Brad Bird, writer/director Andrew Haigh, director Danny Boyle, and cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, amongst others, discuss the Nic Roeg's diverse body of work and his visual style as well as Don't Look Now.
Release Date: 2019-07-29
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
Kon-Tiki
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Release Date: 2012-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Script Consultant
Vote Count: 770
Dark Side
After her twin sister mysteriously commits suicide, a lawyer begins to investigate and stumbles upon her sister's dark secrets.
Release Date: 2003-08-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
The Fourth Angel
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
Release Date: 2001-08-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 65
Grizzly Falls
When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full of breathtaking excitement, harrowing danger and thrilling surprises.
Release Date: 1999-11-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 34
The Match
Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
Release Date: 1999-08-13
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 13
Regeneration
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Release Date: 1997-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 26
In Love and War
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
Release Date: 1996-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 144
The Preacher's Wife
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
Release Date: 1996-12-13
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 235
Samson and Delilah
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
Release Date: 1996-12-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 41
Samson and Delilah
Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One day, a mysterious stranger appears to Mara and promises her that she will bear a son whom she is to call Samson.
Release Date: 1996-12-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
True Blue
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Release Date: 1996-11-15
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 9
Two Deaths
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Release Date: 1996-06-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 7
Shallow Grave
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
Release Date: 1994-12-22
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1046
Fallen Angels
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
Release Date: 1993-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 10
Cold Heaven
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.
Release Date: 1992-05-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 11
The Witches
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Release Date: 1990-05-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1277
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Release Date: 1988-05-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Taffin
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
Release Date: 1988-02-26
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 42
Apprentice to Murder
Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.
Release Date: 1988-02-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 30
Castaway
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
Release Date: 1986-03-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 117
D.A.R.Y.L.
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
Release Date: 1985-06-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 339
Martin's Day
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.
Release Date: 1985-02-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
The Awakening
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Release Date: 1980-07-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 75
Golden Rendezvous
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacked by a heavily armed group of mercenaries, led by John Vernon. Complicating matters, a nuclear warhead has been smuggled aboard as collateral for a rendezvous with another ocean liner, loaded with gold bullion. A cast full of supernovas, dazzling set & stunt work, and a catchy theme tune by Jeff Wayne create a pleasing audio-visual experience light on logic but fast paced and entertaining nonetheless.
Release Date: 1977-12-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Release Date: 1977-03-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 9
The Spiral Staircase
A mute young woman is stalked by a serial killer at her uncle's mansion.
Release Date: 1975-01-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 11
The Girl from Petrovka
A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up.
Release Date: 1974-12-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
Don't Look Now
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Release Date: 1973-10-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1090
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
Release Date: 1970-08-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6