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Alec C. Snowden
Alec Crawford Snowden (1901–1983) was a British film producer. He was the son of Agnes Adamson Wallace ''née'' Crawford and the novelist J. Keighley Snowden. Selected filmography * ''Little Red Monkey'' (1955) * '' The Brain Machine'' (1955) * ''Confession'' (1955) * '' The Intimate Stranger'' (1956) * '' The Key Man'' (1957) * '' This Other Eden'' (1959) Snowden also produced some early episodes of the ''Scotland Yard Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, but not the City of London, the square mile that forms London's ...''film series. References External links * 1901 births 1983 deaths People from Keighley British film producers 20th-century British businesspeople {{UK-film-producer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Red Monkey
''Little Red Monkey'', released in the United States as ''Case of the Red Monkey'', is a 1955 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Richard Conte, Rona Anderson and Russell Napier. Detectives from Scotland Yard investigate a series of murders of leading nuclear scientists, and are intrigued by strange reports received about the crimes. The film was based on a BBC Television series of the same name, written by Eric Maschwitz and produced by Bill Lyon-Shaw, which ran for six 30-minute episodes in 1953. The film was made by Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios. The film was an international hit, and along with ''Confession'' proved a breakthrough for Anglo-Amalgamated. After its success the company began making more expensive productions, often hiring American stars for international appeal. Cast * Richard Conte - Bill Locklin * Rona Anderson - Julia Jackson * Russell Napier - Superintendent John Harrington * Sylva Langova - Hilde Heller, chief spy * Colin Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brain Machine (film)
''The Brain Machine'' is a 1956 Cinema of the United Kingdom, British thriller film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Maxwell Reed, Elizabeth Allan and Patrick Barr. Premise A husband and wife team of doctors attempt to stop a dangerously unbalanced man from committing a series of crimes. Production The film was made at Merton Park Studios in South London by Anglo-Amalgamated. It was released as a co-feature, as part of a double bill. Cast * Maxwell Reed as Frank Smith * Elizabeth Allan as Doctor Phillipa Roberts * Patrick Barr as Doctor Geoffrey Allen * Russell Napier as Inspector Durham * Gibb McLaughlin as Spencer Simon * Neil Hallett as Detective Superintendent John Harris * Mark Bellamy as Louie, the gangster * Bill Nagy (actor), Bill Nagy as Charlie, gym owner * Edwin Richfield as Henry Arthur Ryan * Clifford Buckton as Edward Jarritt * John Horsley (actor), John Horsley as Doctor Richards * Gwen Bacon as Nurse-Matron * Donald Bisset as Major Gifford * Thomas Gallagher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confession (1955 Film)
''Confession'', released in the United States as ''The Deadliest Sin'', is a 1955 British drama film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton and John Bentley. Production The film was made at Merton Park Studios by Anglo-Amalgamated. Along with ''Little Red Monkey'', released the same year, the film was an international hit and led to the company producing films with a higher production quality than they had previously, often importing American stars to give the films more international appeal. Plot A man stands in a large church. He enters a confessional box and tells the priest: "I have killed a man, Father". After the title sequence, Mike Nelson arrives at an idyllic English country cottage in a chauffeur-driven car. He has an American accent as he has been in the USA working in the oil business for many years. He is greeted enthusiastically by his sister, but his elderly father is more reserved. His sister, Louise, shows him to his old room. Her fia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Intimate Stranger (1956 Film)
''The Intimate Stranger'' is a 1956 British film noir drama film directed by Joseph Losey (under the pseudonym Alec C. Snowden), and starring Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings and Roger Livesey. It was released in the U.S. as ''Finger of Guilt''. Plot Reggie Wilson's Hollywood career as a film editor ended after he had an affair with his boss's wife. He then moved to England, became successful and married the daughter of a producer. They are both working on a new film called ''Eclipse''. His new life is threatened when he starts receiving intimate letters from a woman. She reminds him of a relationship that they had some time ago, but has no knowledge of it. Cast * Richard Basehart - Reginald "Reggie" Wilson * Mary Murphy - Evelyn Stewart * Constance Cummings - Kay Wallace * Roger Livesey - Ben Case * Faith Brook - Lesley Wilson * Mervyn Johns - Ernest Chaple * Vernon Greeves - George Mearns * André Mikhelson - Steve Vadney * David Lodge - Police Sergeant B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Key Man (1957 Film)
''The Key Man'' (released in the USA as ''Life at Stake'') is a 1957 British B movie. The film was shot in black and white during a three week period in 1957 in response to an initiative by Anglo-Amalgamated to increase the number of British made B movies available. Directed by Montgomery Tully, the screenplay was adapted from his own original story by Julian MacLaren-Ross. MacLaren-Ross had been persuaded by producer Alec C. Snowden to write a script in late 1956 and after some doubts about the project delivered a screenplay to Snowden in January 1957, filming was started and completed the next month. The film was subsequently released in the USA by United Artists under the title ''Life at Stake''. The story was adapted as a radio play and broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1960. Plot and reception The film starts with footage of VE Day and crowds singing the Hokey Cokey and Auld Lang Syne. Lee Patterson plays the lead character, Lionel Hulme, a radio reporter who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Other Eden (film)
''This Other Eden'' is a 1959 Irish comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips and Niall MacGinnis. The film's prologue involves the death of an Irish commandant during the Irish War of Independence, who is shot by the Black and Tans. The film then skips forward a few decades, to the unveiling of a statue commemorating the war hero. When an Englishman arrives to settle in Ireland, the locals distrust him and soon blame him for the statue's destruction. Plot The film opens with a prologue set during the Irish War of Independence. Mick Devereaux and Commandant Jack Carberry of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are meeting a British officer to negotiate a cease-fire. Carberry walks down a deserted road and is suddenly fired upon by hidden Black and Tan soldiers. Devereaux kneels beside Carberry as he dies, and Carberry pleads with him to "see to everything". Several years later, local Gombeen man McRoarty is attending a meeting of the Carb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Yard (film Series)
''Scotland Yard'' is a series of 39 half-hour episodes produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. Produced between 1953 and 1961, they are short films, originally made to support the main feature in a cinema double-bill. Each film focuses on a true crime case with names changed, and feature an introduction by the crime writer Edgar Lustgarten. The earlier films were produced by Alec C. Snowden, who was succeeded by Jack Greenwood. Directors included Ken Hughes and Montgomery Tully. The principal character in each film is a Detective Inspector, played by a variety of actors but most frequently by Russell Napier (usually portraying DI Duggan). Many of the films feature, in supporting roles, actors later to become well-known. They include Jill Bennett, Peter Arne, Harry H. Corbett, James Villiers, Arthur Lowe, Peter Halliday, Wilfrid Brambell, Rita Webb, Peter Bowles and Roger Delgado. All of the episodes were shot at Merton Park Studios in London and on location on monochrome 35mm film. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Births
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1983 Deaths
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Keighley
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British Film Producers
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