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Frederick Schrecker
Frederick Schrecker (10 January 1892 – 13 July 1976) was an Austrian actor, who appeared on stage, screen and film in his home country and the United Kingdom. Beginning his career on stage, Schrecker went on to feature in German films "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1926) and "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (1931) under the names Fritz Schrecker and Franz Schrecker. As a result of the Nazi regime in Germany, Schrecker, being Jewish, was forced to flee to England. There, in 1939, he was a co-founder of the Viennese Theatre Club of Paddington, a "celebrated émigré cabaret and theatre", also known as Das Laterndl. The theatrical group of talented Austrian exiles, which included the likes of Lona Cross, Martin Miller and Marianne Walla''The Times'', 28 June 1939, p. 12. became known for their sketches and plays which represented a "satirical commentary on Vienna under Nazi rule". During the Second World War, Schrecker participated in BBC anti-Nazi information programmes. After the war end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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The Web Of Fear
''The Web of Fear'' is the Doctor Who missing episodes, partly missing fifth serial of the Doctor Who (season 5), fifth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the London Underground railway over forty years after the 1967 serial ''The Abominable Snowmen''. In the serial, the incorporeal Great Intelligence leads the Time travel in fiction, time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) into a trap where it can drain the Doctor's mind of all of his knowledge. This serial marked the last regular appearance of the Yeti (Doctor Who), Yeti, although they would return for small cameos in ''The Five Doctors'' and the Reeltime Pictures spin-off ''Downtime (Doctor Who), Downtime''. ''The Web of Fear'' marks the first appearance of actor Nicholas Courtney as Colonel Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, subsequently better known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakaway (1955 Film)
''Breakaway'' is a 1955 British thriller film directed by Henry Cass from a script by Norman Hudis. It stars Tom Conway, Michael Balfour (actor), Michael Balfour and Honor Blackman. A private investigator, private eye is hot on the tail of a stolen secret formula and a kidnapped young woman. It is a sequel to ''Barbados Quest''. Cast * Tom Conway as Tom 'Duke' Martin * Michael Balfour (actor), Michael Balfour as Barney * Honor Blackman as Paula Grant / Paula Jackson * Brian Worth (actor), Brian Worth as Johnny Matlock * Bruce Seton as Webb * Freddie Mills as Pat * Alexander Gauge as MacAllister * John Horsley (actor), John Horsley as Michael Matlock * Paddy Webster as Diane Grant * John Colicos as First Kidnapper * Larry Taylor (actor), Larry Taylor as Second Kidnapper * Arthur Lowe as Mitchell * Frederick Schrecker as Professor Dohlmann Critical reception In a contemporary review, ''Today's Cinema'' called the film "slickly manufactured crime entertainment"; while more recently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Intrigue (film)
''Foreign Intrigue'' is a 1956 American Eastmancolor film noir crime film starring Robert Mitchum. The film is written, produced and directed by Sheldon Reynolds, who had produced a television series called ''Foreign Intrigue'' in 1951. ''Foreign Intrigue'' was one of the first major Hollywood films to be based on a popular TV series. Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum), wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Bishop enters into a world of espionage and blackmail while uncovering Danemore's secret past. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was black-mailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during WW2. Cast * Robert Mitchum as Dave Bishop * Geneviève Page as Dominique Danemore * Ingrid Thulin as Brita Lindquist * Frédér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Divided Heart
''The Divided Heart'' is a 1954 British black-and-white drama film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell and Armin Dahlen. The film is based on a true story of a child, whose father was a member of Slovenian Partisans executed by Nazis and whose mother was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, while little Ivan was, like other 300 babies and young children from Slovenia, whose parents were declared Banditen by Nazis, sent to Germany in a Nazi program known as Lebensborn. It was made at Ealing Studios with sets designed by the art director Edward Carrick. Location shooting took place around St. Johann in Tirol in Austria. The script was written by Jack Whittingham and Richard Hughes. It was produced by Michael Truman and edited by Peter Bezencenet, with cinematography by Otto Heller and music by Georges Auric. ''The Divided Heart'' was widely admired, and won three British Academy Film Awards. Plot During the Second World War, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Plan (1954 Film)
''The Master Plan'' is a 1954 British film noir drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Norman Wooland, Tilda Thamar and Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris. It is set at the headquarters of NATO. Based on a teleplay ''Operation North Star'' by Harald Bratt, it was produced as a second feature. It was made at Southall Studios with sets designed by the art director Scott MacGregor (art director), Scott MacGregor. Plot Following the Second World War, an American army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, enemy agents know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor. Cast * Norman Wooland as Colonel Mark Cleaver * Tilda Thamar as Helen Quaid * Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris as Major Thomas Brent * Mary Mackenzie as Miss Gray * Arnold Bell as General Harry Goulding * Marjorie Stewart as Yvonne Goulding * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny On The Spot
''Johnny on the Spot'' is a 1954 British crime drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh McDermott, Elspet Gray and Paul Carpenter. It was shot at Bushey Studios and on location in London. It was produced as a second feature.Chibnall & McFarlane p.291 Cast * Hugh McDermott as Johnny Breakes * Elspet Gray as Joan Ingram * Paul Carpenter as Paul Carrington * Jean Lodge as Sally Erskine * Ronald Adam as Inspector Beveridge * Valentine Dyall as Tyneley * Graham Stark as Stevie * Bruce Beeby as Hotel Garage Attendant (uncredited) * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Jeremy Oulton (uncredited) * Conrad Phillips Conrad Philip Havord (13 April 1925 – 13 January 2016), known professionally as Conrad Phillips, was an English television and film actor. He is best known for playing William Tell in the adventure series ''The Adventures of William Tell'' (1 ... as Police Sergeant (uncredited) References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innocents In Paris
''Innocents in Paris'' is a 1953 British-French international co-production comedy film produced by Romulus Films, directed by Gordon Parry and starring Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, and Jimmy Edwards, and also featuring James Copeland. Popular French comedy actor Louis de Funès appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by Christopher Lee, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth Williams. The writer and producer was Anatole de Grunwald, born in Russia in 1910, who fled to Britain with his parents in 1917. He had a long career there as a writer and producer, including the films ''The Way to the Stars'', ''The Winslow Boy'', ''Doctor's Dilemma'', ''Libel'', and ''The Yellow Rolls-Royce''. Plot The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from The London Airport for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Without Crime
''Murder Without Crime'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson (his first film, credited as J. Lee-Thompson) and starring Dennis Price, Derek Farr and Patricia Plunkett. J. Lee Thompson also wrote the screenplay adapted from ''Double Error'', his own successful West End play. Plot Following a bitter row, writer Stephen Holt (Derek Farr) walks out on his wife Jan (Patricia Plunkett) and goes to drown his sorrows at a nightclub. A drunken Steve ends up returning home with the club's wily hostess, Grena (Joan Dowling). Just then Jan calls, and announces she is returning that night to the flat. Steve attempts to get rid of Grena, but a fight ensues and he believes he has killed her. He quickly hides her body in an ottoman. Downstairs, the suave and sinister landlord Matthew (Dennis Price) hears the disturbance and goes to investigate. Matthew suspects the edgy Steve is hiding something, and during the night continually taunts his tenant. Stephen eventually conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Man
''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that Lime has died. Viewing his death as suspicious, Martins elects to stay in Vienna and investigate the matter. The atmospheric use of black-and-white expressionist cinematography by Robert Krasker, with harsh lighting and largely subtle "Dutch angle" camera technique, is a major feature of ''The Third Man''. Combined with the iconic theme music by zither player Anton Karas, seedy locations and acclaimed performances from the cast, the style evokes the atmosphere of an exhausted, cynical post-war Vienna at the start of the Cold War. Greene wrote the novella of the same name as preparation for the screenplay. Karas's title composition "The Third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trunks Of Mr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandstand For General Staff (1926 Film)
''Grandstand for General Staff'' (German: ''Der Feldherrnhügel'') is a 1926 Austrian-German silent comedy film directed by Hans Otto and Erich Schönfelder and starring Alexander Roda Roda, Harry Liedtke and Olga Tschechowa. It is based on a play of the same name. Cast *Alexander Roda Roda as Korpskomandant *Robert Valberg as Erzherzog *Frederick Schrecker as Regimentsarzt *Harry Liedtke as Rittmeister Jennewein *Maria Mindzenty as Komptesse Lilly *Olga Tschechowa as Gräfin Landieren *Hansi Niese as Frau Oberst von Leukfeld *Karl Forest as Feldmarschalleutnant * Hans Moser as Regimentsschneider *Iván Petrovich as Colonel Esterhazy *Hans Marr *Mizzi Zwerenz *Hans Junkermann *Lupu Pick Lupu Pick (2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a German actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928. Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian,Hans Morgenst ... See also *'' Grandstand for Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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