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Danny Green (actor)
Danny Green (26 May 1903 – 1973) was an English character actor. He was best known for his role as the slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in '' The Ladykillers''. He worked regularly in film, television and on the stage, including playing comic gangsters in the original London productions of ''Guys and Dolls'' (1953) and '' Do Re Mi'' (1961). One of his last roles was as ''Lord Surrey'' in the '' Randal and Hopkirk'' episode ''Just for the Record'' in 1969. Filmography * ''The Crooked Billet'' (1929) - Rogers * ''Atlantic'' (1929) - Passenger * '' The Fire Raisers'' (1934) - Stedding's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Wild Boy'' (1934) - Driver (uncredited) * ''Things Are Looking Up'' (1935) - Big Black Fox * ''Crime Over London'' (1936) - Klemm * '' Silver Blaze'' (1937) - Barton, Moriarty's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) - Socks, American Henchman * ''Gangway'' (1937) - Shorty * ''Jericho'' (1937) - Sergeant (uncredited) * '' The Squeaker'' (1937) - Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ladykillers (1955 Film)
''The Ladykillers'' is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. William Rose wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. He claimed to have dreamt the entire film and merely had to remember the details when he awoke. Plot Mrs Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding lopsided house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-Stop New York
''Non-Stop New York'' (also known as ''Lisbon Clipper Mystery'') is a 1937 British science fiction crime film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring John Loder, Anna Lee and Francis L. Sullivan. It is based on the 1936 novel ''Sky Steward'' by Ken Attiwill. A woman who can clear an innocent man of the charge of murder is pursued by gangsters onto a luxurious transatlantic flying boat. Plot On New Year's Eve 1938 in New York, lawyer Billy Cooper notices stranded English showgirl Jennie Carr (Anna Lee) gazing hungrily at other diners' plates in a restaurant and offers to buy her a meal. However, the restaurant has run out, so he invites her to his apartment. Before they arrive, Abel, another hungry, unemployed person, sneaks in for a chicken leg. Hearing them coming, he hides in a bedroom. When Jennie enters to remove her coat, he begs her not to cause trouble. She sympathizes with his plight and says nothing to Cooper. Just then, Hugo Brant (Francis L. Sullivan), Cooper†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once A Sinner (1950 Film)
''Once a Sinner'' is a 1950 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Pat Kirkwood (actress), Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling and Joy Shelton. Plot Bank clerk John Ross (Jack Watling) falls for good-time girl Irene (Pat Kirkwood), and, although at first she tries to discourage him, they are quickly married. They soon find that Irene does not get along with John's middle-class parents and friends, and when he finally insists on meeting Irene's mother he is taken aback by her hostility towards her own daughter, but he learns that Irene has a child by her former lover, Jimmy (Sidney Tafler). When John tells her it's over between them, Irene reluctantly goes back to Jimmy and they move to London. A few weeks later, when John's father gives him his letters from Irene which his mother had tried to hide from him, John realises he still wants Irene and he sets off to find her. When he arrives, he eventually persuades Irene to go with him and they decide they will try to make a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone At The Door (1950 Film)
''Someone at the Door'' is a 1950 British crime comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh and Yvonne Owen. Basis The film was based on Someone at the Door (play), a hit West End play by Campbell Christie (writer), Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy, which had Someone at the Door (1936 film), previously been turned into a film in 1936. Plot A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place. Cast * Michael Medwin as Ronnie Martin * Garry Marsh as Kapel * Yvonne Owen as Sally Martin * Hugh Latimer (actor), Hugh Latimer as Bill Reid * Danny Green (actor), Danny Green as Price * Campbell Singer as Inspector Spedding * John Kelly as Police Constable Critical reception The ''Radio Times'' wrote, "this is Hammer hokum of the hoariest kind. There isn't a semblance of suspense...Not even the arrival of jewel thieves at the haunted house... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helter Skelter (1949 Film)
''Helter Skelter'' is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson and Mervyn Johns. A radio star becomes involved with a wealthy heiress. The recurring English comic characters Charters and Caldicott also appeared in the film. Plot Susan Graham is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews. On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin, whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist. This, however, proves to be a mixed blessing for Susan; when the evening's principal performer, a ventriloquist, comes out, she laughs so hard at his routine that she gets a bad case of the hiccups. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good-Time Girl
''Good-Time Girl'' is a 1948 British film noir-crime drama film directed by David MacDonald. A homeless girl is asked to explain her bad behaviour in the juvenile court, and says she’s run away from home because she’s unhappy there. They explain in detail what happened to the last girl who thought she could cope on her own, and this becomes the main plot. Plot The film opens with Miss Thorpe, chairwoman of the Juvenile Court, giving advice to troubled teenager Lyla Lawrence. Miss Thorpe tells Lyla that her life has a similar beginning to that of Gwen Rawlings. She then recounts Gwen's story in a series of flashbacks. Gwen is a 16-year-old girl who repeatedly falls in with the wrong crowd. Her troubles begin with her employer, a pawnbroker, who catches her "borrowing" a brooch from his shop. Although Gwen had only borrowed it to wear at a dance and had every intention of returning it, she is fired. When she arrives home and informs her father, he beats her. The next day Gwen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Orchids For Miss Blandish (film)
''No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' (US re-release title ''Black Dice'') is a 1948 British gangster film adapted and directed by St. John Legh Clowes from the 1939 novel of the same name by James Hadley Chase. It stars Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, and Linden Travers (reprising her title role from the West End play by Chase and Robert Nesbitt), with unbilled early appearances from Sid James, as a barman,Cliff Goodwin, ''Sid James: A Biography''. Random House, 2011 , (p. 67-68). and Walter Gotell, as a nightclub doorman. Due to the film's strong violence and sexual content for its time, amongst other reasons, several critics have called it one of the worst films ever made. Plot Miss Blandish (Linden Travers), a sheltered heiress, is targeted for a simple robbery by a cheap thug who ultimately involves two groups of rival gangsters, their goal being her diamond jewelry worth $100,000. The robbery is botched when Riley (Richard Nielson) kills her bridegroom and the three would-be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With Crime
''Dancing with Crime'' is a 1947 British film noir film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, starring Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes and Sheila Sim. It was shot at Southall Studios with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. Plot Boyhood friends and comrades in the Army, Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) and Dave Robinson ( Bill Owen) are back in civvies. Ted becomes a taxi driver and hopes to marry Joy Goodall (Sheila Sim), a pretty chorus girl. Dave, seeking easy money, joins a gang which has its headquarters in a suburban palais-de-danse. The gang is headed by a man called Gregory ( Barry Jones), and includes Paul Baker ( Barry K. Barnes), and petty crooks Sniffy and Pogson. Ted refuses to join them. Cast * Richard Attenborough as Ted Peters * Barry K. Barnes as Paul Baker * Sheila Sim as Joy Goodall * Garry Marsh as Sgt. Murray * John Warwick as Det. Insp. Carter * Judy Kelly as Toni * Barry Jones as Gregory * Bill Rowbotham as Dave Robinson * Cyril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Within (film)
''The Man Within'' is a 1947 British, Technicolor, adventure, crime, drama film, directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Ronald Shiner as Cockney Harry, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. In the United States, it was released in a slightly shorter version, retitled ''The Smugglers''. It was produced by Triton Films and Production Film Service. The film was also presented by J. Arthur Rank and the Rank Organisation. The film was adapted from the 1929 novel '' The Man Within'' by Graham Greene. Plot The story is told from the point of view of Seaman Andrews (Richard Attenborough), the ward of 19th-century smuggler chieftain, Carlyon (Michael Redgrave). Feeling persecuted by his stern disciplinarian guardian, Seaman Andrews jumps ship and turns Carlyon over to the customs officials. A deadly fight ensues, during which both Andrews and Carlyon escape and head their separate ways. Upon befriending the stepson of a customs agent who was killed by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Echo Murders
''The Echo Murders'' is a 1945 British thriller film directed by John Harlow and starring David Farrar and Dennis Price. It was one of two films directed by John Harlow in which David Farrar played Sexton Blake, the other being ''Meet Sexton Blake'' (1945). Plot summary A man's life is threatened and he seeks the assistance of Sexton Blake. Cast * David Farrar as Sexton Blake *Dennis Price as Dick Warren *Pamela Stirling as Stella Duncan *Julien Mitchell as James Duncan *Cyril Smith as Police Constable Smith *Dennis Arundell as Rainsford *Ferdy Mayne as Dacier *Johnnie Schofield as Purvis *Paul Croft as Marat *Kynaston Reeves as Beales *Desmond Roberts as Cotter * Danny Green as Carl *Patric Curwen as Dr. Grey *Tony Arpino as Fox *Vincent Holman as Col. Wills * Gerald Pring Gerald Pring (1888 – 1970) was a British stage and film actor. He played a number of supporting roles in British and American films during the silent and sound eras. In 1930 he appeared in the West E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna Of The Seven Moons
''Madonna of the Seven Moons'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. The film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas. Plot A buried trauma from the past holds the key to the disappearance of a respectable married woman. Maddalena has a dual personality which leads her to forsake her husband and daughter, to flee to the house of the Seven Moons in Florence as the mistress of a jewel thief. Cast * Phyllis Calvert as Maddalena Labardi * Stewart Granger as Nino Barucci * Patricia Roc as Angela Labardi * Peter Glenville as Sandro Barucci * John Stuart as Giuseppe Labardi * Nancy Price as Mama Barucci * Reginald Tate as Doctor Charles Ackroyd * Jean Kent as Vittoria * Peter Murray-Hill as Jimmy Logan * Dulcie Gray as Nesta Logan * Alan Haines as Evelyn * Hilda Bayley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddlers Three (1944 Film)
''Fiddlers Three'' is a 1944 British black-and-white musical comedy. It includes a number of musical sections, mainly focussing on replacing the word "home" with "Rome". The film was produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Harry Watt. The cast included Tommy Trinder, Sonnie Hale, Frances Day, Francis L. Sullivan, Diana Decker and Elisabeth Welch. Making their film debuts were James Robertson Justice, and Kay Kendall near the bottom of the cast list, as the "Girl Who Asks About Her Future At Orgy". The film follows the adventures of two sailors and a Wren who are struck by lightning and transported back to Ancient Rome, where they are accepted as seers. The title comes from the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole". The film was called ''While Nero Fiddled'' on its USA release. It is a loose sequel to the 1940 film ''Sailors Three'' which had also starred Trinder. The film was only moderately successful at the British Box Office but proved to be a major hit in Australia. Plot Tommy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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