Simon Hitchman
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Shorts
Completed:
A Show of Strength (1993)   a bomb disposal expert faces the ultimate test of nerve.
     
Out of Focus (1994)   a photographer in a park is haunted by a strange spectral figure.
     
The Frontiersman (1998)   a 19th century adventurer adrift in modern day London.
     
City of Spies (2002)   the story of what happens when the boundary between fiction and reality disappears.


In development:
Times Like These   an honest employee takes a quixotic stand when faced for the first time with the discrepancy between the values he is taught and the values that actually exist.
     
This Film is Dangerous   a man transports a dangerous cargo across Nazi occupied Paris.



Features
Screenplays:
The Man Who Was Thursday   adapted from the novel by G.K. Chesterton.
     
Assassin of the Children   political thriller co-written with David Sherwin.
     
The Guantanamo Boys   a coming of age drama based on a true story. Developed with the Gersh Agency.
The Heart of a Traitor   historical drama. Developed with Starfield Films.
     
The Landlord   a psychological thriller.
     
All Quiet on the Orient Express   adapted from the novel by Magnus Mills.
     
Bright Star   historical drama based on a true story.
     
Disappearing Act   supernatural mystery story.
     
Midnight Movie   a neo-noir thriller.
     
Five O’Clock Shadow   a detective investigates the disappearance of a writer.
     
Sugar Mountain   a gothic drama set at the end of the 1960s.


Plays
The Hunters   a father and son, with two very different ideas about manhood and success, confront each other. When loyalty is called into question, the unearthing of a family secret leads to tragic consequences.
     
Let the Great Axe Fall   on his opening night in the West End, an actor is visited in his dressing room by an old acquaintance with a score to settle.
     
The Blue Hotel   a dramatization of the Stephen Crane short story about a group of strangers who meet in a hotel in a small town in Nebraska in the 1880s.
     
The Penthouse   a chance meeting between two former school friends leads to the reawakening of long buried rivalries.