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Cloudburst (1951 Film)
''Cloudburst'' is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the author of a memoir about his wartime work, '' Between Silk and Cyanide'' (1998). Plot A World War II veteran, a former operative for the SOE, seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his wife. Cast * Robert Preston as John Graham * Elizabeth Sellars as Carol Graham * Colin Tapley as Inspector Davis * Sheila Burrell as Lorna Dawson * Harold Lang as Mickie Fraser / Kid Python * Mary Germaine as Peggy Reece * George Woodbridge as Sergeant Ritchie * Lyn Evans as Chuck Peters * Thomas Heathcote as Jackie * Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reece * Daphne Anderson as Kate * Edward Lexy as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Searle
Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer. He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry. Amongst the films he directed were '' The Lady Craved Excitement'' (1950), '' One Way Out'' (1955) and '' It All Goes to Show'' (1969). Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1972. Selected filmography * '' A Girl in a Million'' (1946) * '' Things Happen at Night'' (1947) * '' Man in Black'' (1949) * '' Celia'' (1949) * ''A Case for PC 49'' (1951) * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) * ''Love's a Luxury'' (1952) * '' Never Look Back'' (1952) * '' Profile'' (1954) * '' Undercover Girl'' (1958) * ''The Diplomatic Corpse'' (1958) * ''Freedom to Die'' (1961) * '' Ticket to Paradise'' (1961) * '' Gaolbreak'' (1962) * '' Emergency'' (1962) * ''Dead Man's Evidence'' (1962) * ''Night of the Prowler ''Night of the Prowler'' is a 1962 British crime thriller film directed by Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crime Drama Films
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British Black-and-white Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Films
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine ''Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's ''Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Crime Drama Films
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Boddey
Albert Martin Boddey (16 April 1907 – 24 October 1975) was a British film and television actor. He was a founder member of the Lord's Taverners charity. Boddey started acting when he was nearly 40, often portraying irritable authority figures such as police officers or magistrates. Selected filmography * '' A Song for Tomorrow'' (1948) - Major * ''The Third Man'' (1949) - Russian Military Policeman (uncredited) * ''Landfall'' (1949) - Civilian (uncredited) * ''The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery'' (1950) - 2nd Plainclothesman (uncredited) * ''Cairo Road'' (1950) - Maj. Ahmed Mustafa * '' State Secret'' (1950) - Clubman * ''The Dancing Years'' (1950) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Seven Days to Noon'' (1950) - Gen. Willoughby * '' Cage of Gold'' (1950) - Adams * '' The Franchise Affair'' (1951) - Insp. Hallam * '' The Adventurers'' (1951) - Chief Engineer * '' Laughter in Paradise'' (1951) - Store Shopwalker * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) - Desk Sergeant * ''Valley of Eagles'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Howlett
Noel Howlett (22 December 1902 – 26 October 1984) was an English actor, principally remembered as the incompetent headmaster, Morris Cromwell, in the ITV 1970s cult television programme ''Please Sir!'' He was the subject of infatuation by Deputy Head Doris Ewell, played by Joan Sanderson. Howlett was born in Bexley, Kent, and began his career as Richard Greatham in Noël Coward's '' Hay Fever''. At Northampton Repertory Theatre in 1930 he played Sherlock Holmes. He also appeared as Mr Williams in the 1948 film ''The Winslow Boy'', starring Robert Donat. At Stratford-on-Avon in 1953, he played Old Gobbo (father to Donald Pleasence's Launcelot Gobbo) in ''The Merchant of Venice'', Edward IV (brother to Marius Goring's Richard III), Baptista in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' and Gloucester in ''King Lear''. An early TV role was portraying a vicar in the 1958/59 BBC series '' Quatermass and the Pit''. He appeared as Professor Rushton in a one-off 1967 edition ("Mission Highly I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lexy
Edward Lexy (18 February 1897, in London – 31 January 1970, in Dublin) was a British actor. He was born Edward Little. Career He made his London stage début in 1936, and his first film the following year. His film roles were a mixture of substantial supporting parts and minor bit parts. He retired in 1958.https://www.allmovie.com/artist/edward-lexy-p42271. Selected filmography * '' Action for Slander'' (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Mademoiselle Docteur'' (1937) - (uncredited) * '' Farewell Again'' (1937) - Sgt. Brough * ''Knight Without Armour'' (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Smash and Grab'' (1937) - Inspector McInerney * '' Under Secret Orders'' (1937) - Carr's Orderly * '' The Green Cockatoo'' (1937) - (uncredited) * '' South Riding'' (1938) - Mr. Holly * '' The Divorce of Lady X'' (1938) - Peters - Club Attendant (uncredited) * '' Second Best Bed'' (1938) - Murdock * '' The Drum'' (1938) - Sgt. Major Kernel (uncredited) * ''The Terror'' (1938) - Inspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Anderson
Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film, and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson appeared in such films as ''The Beggar's Opera'', ''Hobson's Choice'' and ''The Scarlet Pimpernel''. Biography Anderson was born on 27 April 1922, in London, to parents Alan Edward Scrutton and Gladys Amy Scrutton (''née'' Juler). Her surname was originally "Scrutton", but she later changed it to "Anderson". Anderson attended Kensington High School. She married Lionel William Carter. Her aunt was the composer Mary Anderson Lucas. Theatrical career Daphne Anderson studied dancing under Zelia Raye. She made her first stage performance in 1937 at the Richmond Theatre as a chorus member in a production of ''Cinderella''. The following year, Anderson made her London theatre debut in the chorus of the ''Revudeville'' at the Windmill Theatre. She played sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Sharpe
Edith Mary Sharpe (14 September 1894 – 6 June 1984) was a British actress. Born in Hackney, London. She married Alexander Francis Part in 1931 and had one child. She appeared in TV series such as Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars, Emergency Ward 10, and Probation Officer (TV series). Her last known TV appearance was in War and Peace (1972 TV series). She died in Harrow on the Hill, London, aged 89. Selected filmography * ''The Education of Elizabeth'' (1921) - Lucy Fairfax * '' Music Hath Charms'' (1935) - Miss Wilkinson * ''Broken Blossoms'' (1936) - Mrs. Reed * '' The Tenth Man'' (1936) - Miss Hobbs * ''Old Mother Riley'' (1937) - Matilda Lawson * '' When the Bough Breaks'' (1947) - Matron * '' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) - Mrs. Hartley * '' That Dangerous Age'' (1949) - Angela Caine * ''Landfall'' (1949) - Mrs. Chambers - Rick's Mother * ''No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) - The Doctor * ''Once a Sinner'' (1950) - Mrs. Ross * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) - Mrs. Reece * ''The Death of the Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Heathcote
Thomas Heathcote (9 September 1917 – 5 January 1986) was a British character actor, a former protégé of Laurence Olivier. He was educated at Bradfield College in Bradfield, near Reading in Berkshire, England. His films included '' A Night to Remember'' (1958), '' Village of the Damned'' (1960), ''Billy Budd'' (1962), '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), ''Night of the Big Heat'' (1967) and ''Quatermass and the Pit'' (1967). On television he had notable guest roles in '' Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Onedin Line'' and ''Crossroads''. Heathcote was also a regular actor in BBC radio drama, notably in several series of Paul Temple. Selected filmography * ''Dance Hall'' (1950) - Fred * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) - Jackie * '' Malta Story'' (1953) - Soldier (uncredited) * '' The Sword and the Rose'' (1953) - Wrestling Second * '' The Red Beret'' (1953) - Alf * ''Blood Orange'' (1953) - Detective Sgt. Jessup * '' The Large Rope'' (1953) - James Gore * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
