Jack Higgins (Writer)
Little is known about Jack Higgins, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Thunder Point
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
Release Date1998-05-30
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
Midnight Man
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain.
Release Date1997-08-20
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count6
The Wrath of God
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Release Date1972-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count29
Night of the Fox
This classic war movie stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine the fate of millions. U.S. Officer Colonel Hugh Kelso has inside knowledge about the imminent and highly secretive D-Day Invasion. When he washes ashore behind enemy lines, special agents Harry Martineau and Sara Drayton of the Allied Forces must stage a covert rescue to save his life – or end it – before the Germans acquire the valuable information he possesses. Joined by an Italian naval officer and a Jewish actor-turned-German paratrooper, the agents embark on a thrilling rescue mission with a shocking twist.
Release Date1990-11-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count12
The Eagle Has Landed
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Release Date1976-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count365
To Catch a King
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
Release Date1984-01-20
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
On Dangerous Ground
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Release Date1996-05-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
The Windsor Protocol
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States. The Windsor Protocol is a list created by Adolf Hitler that will help revive the Nazi party; Dillon must find it before it falls into the wrong hands.
Release Date1998-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count5
A Prayer for the Dying
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
Release Date1987-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count104
Confessional
A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him.
Release Date1989-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Roseland
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York City dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Release Date1977-10-02
DepartmentSound
JobSound Mixer
Vote Count8
The Violent Enemy
During the troubles in Ireland an IRA bomb plot is hatched to blow up a British power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) is an IRA bomb expert and escapes from prison to try and stop the destruction.
Release Date1967-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Kim Congdon: Childless Milf
Kim Congdon fearlessly delves into the chaotic world of dating, navigating the absurdities of being a woman in comedy, the unnerving reality of dealing with stalkers, the chilling specter of school shooters, and so much more in her uproarious comedy special at Jam in the Van.
Release Date2024-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1