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Eric Mason
Eric Mason (died 7 June 2010) was a British actor. Originally a stevedore working at Surrey Docks, he sustained a back injury in a road accident and end up taking an acting career. He made his theatrical debut in ''Gentle Jack'' by Robert Bolt, starring Dame Edith Evans."Ex-Stevedore's West-End Part", ''The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post'', 25 September 1963 (pg.17) His television credits include: ''Z-Cars'', '' Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Doctor Who'', '' Bergerac'', ''Sea of Souls'', ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'', ''Minder'' in episode ''Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away'' and ''The Bill''. He had a notable role in ''Hot Fuzz''. He played the husband of Billie Whitelaw's character, and was involved in the film's climax, where he fought Simon Pegg Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom ''Spaced'' (1999–2001), directed by Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bolt
Robert Oxton Bolt (15 August 1924 – 20 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''Doctor Zhivago'', and '' A Man for All Seasons'', the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Career He was born in Sale, Cheshire, to Methodist parents; his father owned a small furniture shop. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed. After leaving school aged sixteen, he worked in an insurance office, which he disliked; after studying in the evening for five weeks he passed three A-levels and went on to attend the University of Manchester, from which, after a year, he undertook wartime service, initially as a pilot officer candidate in the RAF (air-sickness preventing him from continuing past training) from 1943 to 1946. He then served as an Army officer in West Africa until 1947, when he returned to the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Met In The Dark
''They Met in the Dark'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring. The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along" (Ben Frankel, Moira Heath). The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel ''The Vanishing Corpse'' by Anthony Gilbert. It was shot at Teddington Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. Plot Commander R. F. Heritage is dismissed from the Royal Navy during the Second World War after being found guilty of losing some top secret documents. He revisits his places of the previous few days - mainly involving a string of women. He starts with Mary, a manicurist, in Blackpool. They originally meet in the Hotel Monopole. She has something to impart but then arranges to reconvene in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Body (1986 Film)
''Foreign Body'' is a 1986 British romantic comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and adapted from the 1975 Roderick Mann novel of the same name. The film stars Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, and Amanda Donohoe. It was Neame's final film. Plot Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in mid-1970s Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman. Cast *Victor Banerjee as Ram Das *Geraldine McEwan as Lady Ammanford *Warren Mitchell as I.Q. Patel *Denis Quilley as Prime Minister *Amanda Donohoe as Susan Partridge * Eve Ferret as Norah *Anna Massey as Miss Furze *Stratford Johns as Mr. Plumb *Trevor Howard as Dr. Stirry * Jane Laurie as Jo Masters (as Janet Laurie) * Rashid Karapiet as Mr. Nahan * Sinitta Renay as Indian girl *Marc Zuber as Macho escort *Janet Henfrey as Landlady *Ann Firbank as Mrs. Plumb * Richard Wilson as Colonel Partridge *Timothy Bateson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
''The Great Riviera Bank Robbery'', also known as ''Dirty Money'' and ''Sewers of Gold'', is a 1979 British heist film written and directed by Francis Megahy and starring Ian McShane, Warren Clarke, Stephen Greif and Christopher Malcolm. In the film, based on a bank robbery masterminded by Albert Spaggiari in 1976, members of a neo-fascist group team up with professional criminals to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank in a French resort town. It is the British version of the French film ''Les Égouts du paradis'', released the same year. Plot Bert and Jean are members of a right-wing nationalist organisation closely connected to the ''Organisation armée secrète''. Both men are ex-military, but now find themselves on the wrong side of the law in Nice, France. Needing to raise cash to buy weapons, Bert, an ex-paratrooper known as 'The Brain', devises a plan to dig their way into a bank vault from below. Requiring criminal expertise, they persuade some local French gangsters to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Sea Hijack
''North Sea Hijack'' (released as ''ffolkes'' outside the UK and as ''Assault Force'' on US TV) is a 1980 British adventure film starring Roger Moore, Lea Brodie, James Mason, Anthony Perkins and Michael Parks. It was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and adapted by Jack Davies from his novel, ''Esther, Ruth and Jennifer''. This film was a vehicle for both Moore and Perkins to try to escape typecasting. Previously, Moore had been practically typecast as a womanising, happy-go-lucky playboy in such series as ''The Saint, The Persuaders!'' and James Bond. In contrast to those parts, he portrays a bearded, eccentric, arrogant, cat-loving chauvinist with master strategist skills. Plot Eccentric and cat-loving counter-terrorism consultant Rufus Excalibur ffolkes is asked by Lloyd's of London to develop a contingency plan, should any of the North Sea oil installations it insures be threatened. Months later, a North Sea supply ship named ''Esther'' takes on board a group of men posing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Likely Lads (film)
''The Likely Lads'' is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It is a spin-off from ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'', although it shares its title with the earlier 1960s British television series ''The Likely Lads'', of which ''Whatever'' was the sequel. The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and the principal roles of Bob and Terry, as well as those of Bob's wife Thelma and Terry's sister Audrey, are played by the original television cast. This film was the final screen appearance of Bewes and Bolam together. At the time of the film's release, the two had fallen out over a quarrel involving the press, and never spoke to each other again. Bolam denied there was a rift between the two men when Bewes died in November 2017. Plot An opening pre-credits sequence shows the conception of both Lads during a Second World War air raid. After the opening titles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juggernaut (1974 Film)
''Juggernaut'' is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester, was largely shot on location aboard the TS ''Hamburg'' in the North Sea. It was inspired by real events aboard '' QE2'' in May 1972 when Royal Marines and Special Boat Service personnel parachuted onto the ship because of a bomb hoax. In the film, Richard Harris leads a team of Naval bomb disposal experts sent to disarm several large barrel bombs that have been placed aboard an ocean liner crossing the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, ashore, the police race against time to track down the mysterious bomb maker, who calls himself "Juggernaut", who will agree to a ransom in order to reveal the information that will disarm the bombs. Plot The ocean liner SS ''Britannic'' is in the middle of a voyage in the North Atlantic with 1200 passengers on board when the shipping line's owner Nicholas Porter in London receives a telephone ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Dog (film)
Yellow dog may refer to: Animals * Yellow Dog or Carolina Dog, wild dog variety in the southern United States * Nureongi, a Korean dog * A dog of any breed with a yellow coat of fur Arts Literature * ''Yellow Dog'' (novel), 2003 novel by Martin Amis * ''Old Yeller'', novel about a yellow dog * ''Yellow Dog'' (comics), an underground comix * Yellow Dog, a fictional dog from the Blinky comic strip in ''The Dandy'' * Yellow Dog Dingo, a character in Rudyard Kipling's ''Just So Stories'' Music * ''Yellow Dog'' (album), a 2007 album by Greg Brown * Yellow Dog (band), 1970s band, who charted in the UK with "Just One More Night" * Yellow Dog (bootlegger), publisher of bootleg records * Yellow Dog Records, a Memphis music label named after the railroad * The Yellow Dogs, rock band from Tehran, Iran Other uses * ''Yellow Dog'' (Variety), a Swedish variety show by Hasseåtage * '' Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog'', 1995 family film starring Jesse Bradford Other * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mackintosh Man
''The Mackintosh Man'' is a 1973 British Cold War neo noir spy thriller film, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason. Huston called it "a spy thriller with some amusing moments" that was similar to his earlier ''The Kremlin Letter''. Plot Joseph Rearden, a British Intelligence agent, arrives in London and makes a rendezvous with Mackintosh, the head of his organisation, in a discreet office located just off Trafalgar Square. Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs Smith, inform him of a simple way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service to avoid attention. This he does, apparently getting successfully away after punching a postman, and making off with the diamond-filled parcel. However, that evening, in his hotel room he is paid a visit by two Metropolitan Police detectives who have received an anonymous phone call advising them about the robbery. They are unconvinced by Rearden's pretence to be an innocent Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villain (1971 Film)
''Villain'' is a 1971 British gangster film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport and Donald Sinden. It is based on James Barlow's 1968 novel '' The Burden of Proof''. ''Villain'' was director Michael Tuchner's first feature film after directing in television. As with other films of ''Villain'''s same era and genre (''Get Carter'', ''A Clockwork Orange'' and ''Performance'', for example), some of the violence is quite graphic, especially during the heist scene, and it foreshadows several 1970s cop TV shows such as ''The Sweeney'', ''Target'' and ''Special Branch''. Plot Ruthless East End gangster Vic Dakin has plans for an ambitious raid on the wages van of a plastics factory. This is a departure from Dakin's usual ''modus operandi'' and the job is further complicated by having to work with fellow gangster Frank Fletcher's firm. The film's intricate subplots explore Dakin's sadistic nature, his relationship with small-time assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blood On Satan's Claw
''The Blood on Satan's Claw'' is a 1971 British supernatural horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, and Barry Andrews. Set in early 18th-century England, it follows the residents of a rural village whose youth fall under the influence of a demonic presence after a local farmer unearths a mysterious deformed skull buried in a field. The screenplay for the film was originally written by Robert Wynne-Simmons as an anthology of horror stories set in a small village, and had the working title of ''Satan's Skin''. After director Haggard was hired for the project, he and Wynne-Simmons reworked the screenplay into a singular cohesive narrative. Principal photography took place in 1970, mainly in the Chiltern Hills region of England. ''The Blood on Satan's Claw'' premiered in New York City in April 1971, and was subsequently released in London on 16 July 1971. It was met with middling reviews from critics, and underperformed at the box office. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Limbo Line
''The Limbo Line'' is a 1968 British spy thriller film directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Craig Stevens, Kate O'Mara and Eugene Deckers. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same title by Victor Canning. It was made as part of a 1960s boom in spy films in the wake of the success of the James Bond series. It was shot at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director Scott MacGregor. Synopsis Through a network known as the "Limbo Line", the KGB is kidnapping figures who have recently defected to the West and returning them to the Soviet Union for punishment. A British intelligence agent identifies the ballerina Irina Tovskia as the next victim, and sets out to rescue her in a mission that takes him from London, to Amsterdam and finally to Lübeck on the East German border. He is able to destroy the Limbo Line, but not prevent Irina being taken to Moscow. Reception The film received generally bad reviews, with ''The Times'' critic feeling it was old-fashioned. The Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
