
Muriel Box
Writing
Biography
Muriel Box was an English director and writer.
Known For
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Holiday Camp

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Good-Time Girl

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Easy Money

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
The Seventh Veil

A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Too Young to Love

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
Simon and Laura

After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
The Years Between

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
The Truth About Women

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Street Corner

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Portrait from Life

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Here Come the Huggetts

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
The Man Within

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
The Lost People

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Dear Murderer

Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
Eyewitness

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
The Brothers
A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.
Alibi Inn

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
Subway in the Sky

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?