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Edward Scaife
Edward Scaife British Society of Cinematographers, BSC (23 May 1912 – November 1994) was an English cinematographer, who worked five times with the director John Huston. Sometimes credited as Ted Scaife, he worked originally in the sound department of a London film company. From 1940 onwards, he was a member of the camera crew in productions such as Michael Powell's ''Black Narcissus'' (1947) and John Huston, Huston's ''The African Queen (film), African Queen''. From 1951 he was first employed as a chief camera man, and photographed films of all genres, including ''Night of the Demon'' (1957), ''633 Squadron'' (1964), ''Khartoum (film), Khartoum'' (1966), and ''The Dirty Dozen'' (1967), before retiring from the industry in 1979. Selected filmography *1947: ''Black Narcissus'' (Camera operator) *1949: ''The Third Man'' (Camera operator) *1951: ''Pandora and the Flying Dutchman'' (2nd Unit Photographer) *1951: ''Outcast of the Islands'' *1951: ''The African Queen (film), The Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Narcissus
''Black Narcissus'' is a 1947 British Psychological fiction, psychological drama film written, produced, and directed by Powell and Pressburger, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, Sabu Dastagir, Sabu, David Farrar (actor), David Farrar, Flora Robson, Esmond Knight, and Jean Simmons. The title refers to the Parfums Caron, Caron perfume ''Narcisse Noir''. Based on the 1939 Black Narcissus (novel), novel by Rumer Godden, the film revolves around the growing tensions within a small convent of Anglican religious order, Anglican sisters who are trying to establish a school and hospital in the old palace of an Indian Raja at the top of an isolated mountain above a fertile valley in the Himalayas. The palace has ancient Indian erotic paintings on its walls and is run by the agent of the Indian general who owns it, a handsome middle-aged Englishman who is a source of attraction for the sisters. ''Black Narcissus'' achieved considerable ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Intruder (1953 Film)
''The Intruder'' is a 1953 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price and Michael Medwin. The film is based on the 1949 novel by Robin Maugham called ''The Line on Ginger''. Post-war London is the backdrop including Belgravia, Covent Garden market, Loughborough Junction and Dulwich Hospital. A contemporary critic commented that the film treated the subject "with intelligence, taste, and a feeling for the medium"; he also wrote "Medwin... gives a brilliant study of a good fellow gone wrong". Plot Ex-Colonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton (Hawkins) returns home one evening to find it being burgled by an armed intruder. Merton recognises the culprit, Ginger Edwards (Medwin), as a former soldier who had fought courageously under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. Merton briefly questions Edwards on how he got into a life of crime, but, suspecting Merton has called the police, the burglar makes his escape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kremlin Letter
''The Kremlin Letter'' is a 1970 American neo-noir DeLuxe Color espionage thriller in PanavisionSeymour, Gene. "100 Greatest Spy Movies: A Special Collector's Edition from the Editors of American History. 2009. Weider History Group. directed by John Huston and starring Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Patrick O'Neal and George Sanders. It was released in February 1970 by 20th Century-Fox. The screenplay was co-written by Huston and Gladys Hill as a faithful adaptation of the novel by Noel Behn, who had worked for the United States Army's Counterintelligence Corps. Said by reviewers to be "beautifully" and "engagingly" photographed, the film is a highly complex and amoral tale of bitter intrigue and espionage set in the winter of 1969–1970 at the height of the US-Soviet Cold War. ''The Kremlin Letter'' was a commercial failure and thinly reviewed in 1970, but the film has gathered steady praise from some critics throughout the decades since its r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinful Davey
''Sinful Davey'' is a 1969 wikt:picaresque, picaresque adventure film, adventure/Crime fiction, crime/comedy film directed by John Huston and starring John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, and in early appearances Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston. John Huston later said the film was "very good" but "spoiled beyond recognition" by the producers. Plot In a British prison in the early 1800s, Scottish rogue Davey Haggart (John Hurt) is seen writing his memoirs while waiting to be hanged. Most of his story is told in Flashback (narrative), flashback with voice-over narration by Davey. His story begins as he is seen marching and beating a drum for the British Army, but he quickly Desertion, deserts by jumping off a bridge with his drum and floating away. We learn that his father had been a highwayman who was hanged at the age of 21 for attempting to rob the Duke of Argyll (Robert Morley) and that Davey is determined to exceed the number of his father's crimes. Annie (Pamela Franklin), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Walk With Love And Death
''A Walk with Love and Death'' is a 1969 American adventure drama historical romance war film directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Assi Dayan. Plot The story is based on the 1961 novel by Hans Koningsberger, set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie. Heron of Fois (Assi Dayan), a student from Paris, crosses territory devastated by the upheaval and the ferocious reprisals of the nobility. He meets with Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the aristocratic daughter of a royal official killed by the peasants, and they attempt to reach Calais. In the novel Heron's intended final destination is Oxford University while in the film "the sea" less specifically comes to represent an abstract freedom. While differing in their views of the ''Jacquerie''—Heron sympathises with the exploited peasantry while Claudia sees their rising as mindless savagery—the young couple become lovers. In the end they fail to escape the chaotic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Cassidy
''Young Cassidy'' is a 1965 British biography drama film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith. It is a biographical drama based upon the life of the playwright Seán O'Casey. Plot Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Seán O'Casey)Sean O'Casey on Dublin Info page. is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, '''', which he submits to the |
Tarzan's Three Challenges
''Tarzan's Three Challenges'' is a 1963 British-American adventure film filmed in Metrocolor. It is a follow-up to 1962's '' Tarzan Goes to India''. The film was Jock Mahoney's second and final turn as the apeman, was produced by Sy Weintraub, written by Robert Day and Berne Giler, and directed by Robert Day.''Variety'' film review; July 3, 1963. The film was released in June 1963. Plot Tarzan, of Africa, is summoned to an unnamed Asian country to protect Kashi (Ricky Der), the youthful heir to the throne, from his evil uncle, Gishi Khan, played by Tarzan veteran Woody Strode. Arriving by parachute from a light airplane and armed with a Spanish bolo hunting knife, Tarzan dons monk's robes and travels by boat to a monastery. The first set of three challenges are for Tarzan to prove he is worthy to be accepted into Kashi's service. First is an archery contest to test his skill. Then Tarzan stands between two tall posts, grasps handles which are attached to two ropes which run o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The List Of Adrian Messenger
''The List of Adrian Messenger'' is a 1963 American mystery film directed by John Huston starring Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper and Herbert Marshall. It is based on a 1959 novel of the same name written by Philip MacDonald. Plot A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery, and provides him with a list of the victims' names. Soon afterward, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tells a fellow passenger the key to the mystery. The passenger survives and turns out to be Raoul Le Borg, Gethryn's old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. The two of them join forces to investigate Messenger's list of names and decode his cryptic final words. They are joined by Lady Jocelyn Brut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dock Brief
''The Dock Brief'' (US title ''Trial and Error'') is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough, and based on the play of the same name written by John Mortimer (creator of Horace Rumpole). The film had its world premiere on 20 September 1962 at the Plaza Theatre in London's West End. Richard Attenborough was nominated for the 1963 BAFTA Award for best British actor for his role. Plot In a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, a single barrister who never gets any cases and is overjoyed to have won this ''dock brief'', the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense). The other is his client Herbert Fowle, an insignificant man who just wants to plead guilty to murdering his wife and get it all over. Flashbacks show that the wife was impossible to live with and Fowle, who avoided her as much as possible, hatched a plot to get rid of her by taking in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carry On Constable
''Carry On Constable'' is a 1960 British comedy film, the fourth in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992). It was released in February 1960. Of the regular team, it featured Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, and Hattie Jacques. Sid James makes his debut in the series here, while early regulars Leslie Phillips, Eric Barker, and Shirley Eaton also turn up, although Phillips did not appear again in the series for 32 years. It was the first ''"Carry On..."'' film to include some nudity with Connor, Hawtrey, Williams, and Phillips baring their behinds during a shower scene. Plot A suburban police station is understaffed due to a flu epidemic, and Sergeant Wilkins, under pressure to maintain staffing levels, is pleased to hear that three new recruits, straight from training school, are due shortly. Before even arriving, the three policemen inadvertently assist some bank robbers into their getaway car, and are embarrassed when they learn the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
''Tarzan's Greatest Adventure'' is a 1959 Eastmancolor adventure film directed by John Guillermin, produced by Sy Weintraub and Harvey Hayutin, and written by Les Crutchfield, based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. With a strong supporting cast that included Anthony Quayle and Sean Connery, and a focus on action and suspense, the film won critical praise as a Tarzan film that appealed to adults as well as children. The film features a literate Tarzan portrayed by Gordon Scott. The character of Jane, Tarzan's wife, does not appear and is not mentioned. At one point, Tarzan briefly romances a female character, suggesting that he is a loner, not a family man. Cheeta, Tarzan's chimp companion in many films, appears only a few times near the start of the film, and the kind of comic relief that Cheeta represents is generally absent from the film. Plot At night, the village of Mantu is raided for its supply of dynamite. The village doctor and radio operator inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of The Seven Hawks
''The House of the Seven Hawks'' is a 1959 British mystery film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey and Linda Christian. It was the final film by Robert Taylor under his twenty five-year contract with MGM. The film follows an American captain searching for sunken treasure who becomes entangled with criminals and is arrested by the Dutch police. It is based on the Victor Canning novel '' The House of the Seven Flies'', published in 1952. Plot Story of an American skipper who becomes entangled with the Dutch police and international crooks over sunken treasure but survives and finds romance. Cast * Robert Taylor as John Nordley * Nicole Maurey as Constanta Sluiter * Linda Christian as Elsa * Donald Wolfit as Inspector Van Der Stoor * David Kossoff as Wilhelm Dekker * Eric Pohlmann as Captain Rohner * Philo Hauser as Charlie Ponz * Gerard Heinz as Inspector Sluiter * Paul Hardtmuth as Beukleman * Lily Kann as Gerta * Richard Shaw as Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |