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Carl Jaffe
Carl Jaffe (21 March 1902 – 12 April 1974) was a German actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career began to develop. In 1933 Jaffe changed his stage name to Frank Alwar, but in 1936, with the situation for Jews in Germany rapidly deteriorating, he made the decision to migrate to the United Kingdom. He remained in the UK for the rest of his life and appeared in more than 50 films and many television productions. Throughout his British career he was often cast as German or Central European characters, usually in supporting roles, and often with a war, crime or espionage setting. His film roles include ''The Lion Has Wings'', ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'', ''Two Thousand Women'', ''Operation Amsterdam'' and '' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone''. Jaffe's television credits included ''Danger Man'', ''Dad's Army'' and ''Oh, Brother!''. Partial filmography * ''Second Best Bed'' (1938) - George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Silent Battle
''The Silent Battle'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and starring Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson and John Loder. It is also known by the alternative titles ''Continental Express'' and ''Peace in our Time''. It was inspired by the novel ''Le Poisson Chinois'' by Jean Bommart. Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express. It is a remake of the French film '' The Silent Battle'' (1937). Cast * Rex Harrison as Jacques Sauvin * Valerie Hobson as Draguisha * John Loder as Bordier * Muriel Aked as Madame Duvivier * George Devine as Sonneman * John Salew as Ernest * Kaye Seeley as Bostoff * Carl Jaffe as Rykoff * Megs Jenkins as Louise * Arthur Maude as Editor Critical reception ''TV Guide'' wrote, "competent prewar spy drama with a fairly talented cast, but it doesn't pack the action or suspense of the great espionage drama Night Train to Munich (1940), also starring Harrison." External links * ''The Silent Battle''at BFI Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blind Goddess (1948 Film)
''The Blind Goddess'' is a 1948 British courtroom drama film directed by Harold French and starring Eric Portman, Anne Crawford and Hugh Williams. The screenplay concerns a secretary who sets out to expose his boss, Lord Brasted, for embezzlement. It was based on a popular 1947 play of the same title by noted barrister Patrick Hastings. Claire Bloom made her screen debut in the film. The "blind goddess" in question is Justice. Plot A valet shoots a man (later named as Count Mikla) dead, steals a bundle of documents, and sets up the crime scene to look like a suicide. Derek Waterhouse sits in an exclusive restaurant with a young woman, Mary Dearing. He is a lawyer and has a quick word with his client, Lady Brasted, before leaving. Outside he chats with the girl in his car until they are moved along by a policeman. Waterhouse is the private secretary to Lord Brasted. He tells Mary that Lord Brasted offered him £10,000 to stay silent on a complicated deal he was trying to stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterblast
''Counterblast'' is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam. It was made by British National Films at Elstree Studios. Plot A Nazi scientist escapes from prison, murders a leading professor and takes his place at a research laboratory, where he experiments with biological warfare with which he intends to wage the next war against Britain. Cast * Robert Beatty as Doctor Paul Rankin * Mervyn Johns as Doctor Bruckner * Nova Pilbeam as Tracy Hart * Margaretta Scott as Sister Johnson * Sybille Binder as Martha Lert, Bruckner's housekeeper * Marie Lohr as Mrs Coles * Karel Stepanek as Professor Inman * Alan Wheatley as M.W. Kennedy * Gladys Henson as Mrs Plum * John Salew as Padre Latham * Anthony Eustrel as Doctor Richard Forrester * Carl Jaffe as Heinz * Ronald Adam as Colonel Ingram * Martin Miller as Van Hessian * Aubrey Mallalieu as Major Walsh * Olive Sloane Olive Sloane (16 December 1896 – 28 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiety George
''Gaiety George'' is a 1946 British historical musical film directed by George King and Leontine Sagan and starring Richard Greene, Ann Todd and Peter Graves.Harper p.179 It is set in the late Victorian music hall, when an Irish impresario arrives in London. The film was inspired by the memory of George Edwardes. Cast * Richard Greene as George Howard * Ann Todd as Katharine Davis * Peter Graves as Henry Carter * Morland Graham as Morris * Hazel Court as Elizabeth Brown * Charles Victor as Danny Collier * Jack Train as Hastings * Leni Lynn as Florence Stevens * Ursula Jeans as Isobel Forbes * Daphne Barker as Miss de Courtney * Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Murphy * Frank Pettingell as Grindley * Phyllis Robins as Chubbs * John Laurie as McTavish * Frederick Burtwell as Jenkins * Anthony Holles as Wade * David Horne as Lord Mountsbury * Patrick Waddington as Lt. Travers * Claud Allister as Archie * Graeme Muir as Lord Elstown * Evelyn Darvell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Didn't Do It (film)
''I Didn't Do It'' is a 1945 British comedy crime film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring George Formby, Dennis Wyndham and Carl Jaffe. Formby's songs include: "She's Got Two Of Everything"' (Cunningham/Towers), "'I'd Like A Dream Like That'" (Formby/Cliffe), and "The Daring Young Man"' (Formby/Cliffe). Because of a realistic murder scene, the film was granted a British 'A' certificate, ensuring no one under the age of 16 would be admitted to the cinema unless accompanied by an adult. Plot A man named George Trotter staying at a theatrical boarding house is framed for a murder. Cast * George Formby as George Trotter * Billy Caryll as Tiger Tubbs * Hilda Mundy as Ma Tubbs * Gaston Palmer as Le Grand Gaston * Jack Daly as Terry O'Rourke * Carl Jaffe as Hilary Vance * Marjorie Browne as Betty Dickinson * Wally Patch as Sergeant Carp * Ian Fleming as Chief Inspector Twyning * Vincent Holman as Erasmus Montague * Dennis Wyndham as Tom Driscoll * Jack Raine as J.B Cato * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Morocco
''The Man from Morocco'' is a 1945 British action adventure film directed by Mutz Greenbaum as Max Greene and starring Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott andMary Morris. The film was shot at Welwyn Studios of Associated British. Plot A group of men who have spent two years in an internment camp are sent by the Vichy Government to build a railway in the Sahara. One escapes and returns to London to find his lover believes him to be dead and that she is being pursued by his deadliest enemy. Cast * Anton Walbrook as Karel Langer * Margaretta Scott as Manuela de Roya * Mary Morris as Sarah Duboste * Reginald Tate as Captain Ricardi * Peter Sinclair as Jock * David Horne as Doctor Duboste * Hartley Power as Colonel Bagley * Sybille Binder as Erna * Charles Victor as Bourdille * Joseph Almas as Franz * Carl Jaffe as German General * Orlando Martins as Jeremiah Crew * Director: Max Greene * Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation * Producer: Warwick Ward * Unit Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Invader
''The Night Invader'' is a 1943 British, black-and-white, drama, thriller, war film, directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Max Milder for Warner Bros. - First National Productions Ltd. the British subsidiary of Warner Bros. and starring Ronald Shiner as Witsen, Anne Crawford and David Farrar. Plot Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister. Cast * Anne Crawford as Karen Lindley * David Farrar as Dick Marlow * Sybille Binder as Baroness von Klaveren * Carl Jaffe as Count von Biebrich * Marius Goring as Oberleutnant * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warn That Man
''Warn That Man'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell and Finlay Currie. It was based on the 1941 play '' Warn That Man!'' by Vernon Sylvaine which had run for ten months on the West End stage, with Harker reprising his original role. The film was made at Welwyn Studios, with sets designed by the art director Charles Gilbert. The plot is noted for the similarity of the later '' The Eagle Has Landed'' which also concerns a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill from rural England. Premise At a country house during the Second World War, an impersonator takes the place of a peer as part of a German attempt to kidnap the Prime Minister Winston Churchill when he visits the estate. Unfortunately for their plans, the niece of a peer arrives unannounced along with three sailors she has recently met. Cast * Gordon Harker as George Hawkins * Raymond Lovell as Hausemann / Lord Buckley * Finlay Currie as Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squadron Leader X
''Squadron Leader X'' is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger. Plot Erich Kohler (Eric Portman), a crack Luftwaffe pilot who speaks fluent English, is ordered by his superior, Inspector Siegel ( Frederick Richter) to drop a "stick" of bombs on the Belgian city of Ghent. He is further instructed to bail out of his aircraft wearing a British RAF uniform, gain the confidence of the local populace and then try to convince them that the British are responsible for the bombing of civilian targets in Belgium. Despite being able to have a convincing English accent, and equipped with a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players cigarettes, the plan goes awry when Kohler falls into the hands of the Belgian Resistance. The resistance members believe they are doing him a favour by arranging for him to be smug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncensored (film)
''Uncensored'' is a 1942 British war drama film directed by Anthony Asquith starring Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. The film was produced at Gainsborough Pictures by Edward Black, with cinematography from Arthur Crabtree and screenplay by Rodney Ackland, Wolfgang Wilhelm and Terence Rattigan based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Oscar Millard. The film was shot at the company's Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush, with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. ''Uncensored'' is set in occupied Belgium and shares the propagandistic tone of many British films of its era. While its reception was mainly positive, it was criticised in some quarters for its unrealistic portrayal of the occupying German forces as bungling, incompetent and easily outwitted buffoons. On its original UK release ''Uncensored'' ran for 108 minutes; for overseas distribution however it was trimmed to 83 minutes and the cut version subsequently became more widely c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gasbags
''Gasbags'' is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel and starring The Crazy Gang as well as Moore Marriott. The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the Second World War. Production It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. It was the fourth and final film starring the comedians at Gainsborough Pictures. Flanagan and Allen subsequently moved to British National where they made a further four films over the next few years. Plot summary The Crazy Gang's mobile fish and chip shop is tethered to a barrage balloon which lifts the shop into the air and the gang is carried to Nazi Germany. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate Adolf Hitler and return to England in a stolen secret weapon. Cast *Bud Flanagan as Bud * Chesney Allen as Ches * Jimmy Nervo as Cecil * Teddy Knox as Knoxy * Charlie Naughton as Charlie *Jimmy Gold as Goldy *Moore Marriott as J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
