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Gerald Gibbs (cinematographer)
Gerald Ernest Gibbs, BSC (7 November 1907 – 23 January 1990) was an English cinematographer. Selected filmography * ''The Schooner Gang'' (1937) * ''Welcome, Mr. Washington'' (1944) * ''Don Chicago'' (1945) * ''Loyal Heart'' (1946) * '' No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' (1948) * ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1949) * '' Whisky Galore!'' (1949) * ''High Jinks in Society'' (1949) * ''The Lady from Boston'' (1951) * '' Night Was Our Friend'' (1951) * ''Johnny on the Run'' (1953) * ''There Was a Young Lady'' (1953) * ''The Straw Man'' (1953) * ''Hill 24 Doesn't Answer'' (1955) * '' The Green Man'' (1956) * '' Fortune Is a Woman'' (1957) * ''At the Stroke of Nine'' (1957) * ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'' (1957) * ''The Safecracker'' (1958) * '' The Man Upstairs'' (1958) * ''Further Up the Creek'' (1958) * '' This Other Eden'' (1959) * ''Left Right and Centre'' (1959) * ''The Pure Hell of St Trinian's'' (1960) * ''A Prize of Arms'' (1962) * '' Station Six-Sahara'' (1962) * ''The Boys'' (1962 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Society Of Cinematographers
The British Society of Cinematographers (abbreviated B.S.C. or BSC) was formed in 1949 by Bert Easey (23 August 1901 – 28 February 1973), the then head of the Denham and Pinewood studio camera departments, to represent British cinematographers in the British film industry. The stated objectives at the formation of the BSC were: * To promote and encourage the pursuit of the highest standards in the craft of Motion Picture Photography. * To further the applications by others of the highest standards in the craft of Motion Picture Photography and to encourage original and outstanding work. * To co-operate with all whose aims and interests are wholly or in part related to those of the society. * To provide facilities for social intercourse between the members and arrange lectures, debates and meetings calculated to further the objects of the Society. There were originally 55 members. Currently, there are 256 full, honorary and associate members. For a British cinematographer, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortune Is A Woman
''Fortune Is a Woman'' is a 1957 black and white British-American film noir crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl. Its plot concerns an attempted insurance fraud that goes badly wrong. In the United States, it was released as ''She Played With Fire''. The film is based on Winston Graham's novel ''Fortune Is a Woman'' (1953). Plot In a dream sequence, a ticking metronome transforms into the sweeping windscreen wiper of a sports car travelling at night in heavy rain. The car pulls up before a large Gothic mansion; the dreamer enters and walks to where a painting of the same house hangs above the mantelpiece; the camera zooms in on the door in the painting. The dreamer, Oliver Branwell, awakes with a start. Branwell is an insurance investigator with a London firm of adjusters, Anderson & Son. Though it is Christmas Eve, he is sent north to Lowis Manor to probe a recent fire. Mr. Tracey Moreton lives there with his mother and wife Sarah. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leather Boys
''The Leather Boys'' is a 1964 British drama film about the rocker subculture in London featuring a gay motorcyclist. This film is notable as an early example of a film that violated the Hollywood production code, yet was still shown in the United States, as well as an important film in the genre of queer cinema.Raymond Murray, ''Images in the dark: an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video'', TLA Publications, 1994, , p.414 An example of British kitchen sink realism, it was considered daring in 1964 as it touched upon homosexuality, however obliquely. Reviewers have noted that it contains naturalistic photography, and period locations such as the Ace Cafe and the Tidal Basin Tavern in Silvertown, east London. The film is based on a 1961 novel commissioned by the London literary agent and publisher Anthony Blond, who suggested that Gillian Freeman write about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs". Plot Working class cockney teenagers Dot (Rita Tushingham) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Jolly Bad Fellow
''A Jolly Bad Fellow'' (US: ''They all Died Laughing'') is a 1964 British black comedy film directed by Don Chaffey. It stars Leo McKern and Janet Munro."A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)" British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 April 2021 Cast * as Prof Bowles-Ottery * as Delia Brooks * as Clarina Bowles-Ottery *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boys (1962 British Film)
''The Boys'' is a 1962 British courtroom drama film, directed by Sidney J. Furie and with a screenplay by Stuart Douglass. Plot Four youth Teddy boys are on trial for the murder of a garage night watchman in the course of a burglary on the night of January 15. Witnesses and the accused give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, a dispiriting and frustrating evening out in London. Flashbacks of the teenagers' insecure and sometimes alienated lives contrast strongly with the austere legality of the courtroom as, by degrees, the truth emerges. The film acts as a series of vignettes, relating to the evidence of each witness, who saw the boys on the evening in question. Each story helps to build an overall picture of their character. The overall ambience is that adults presumed they were bad without basing this on any actual observation. Most witnesses admit they prejudged the boys' character based on appearance. The boys admit to their defence that they are hooligans an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station Six-Sahara
''Station Six-Sahara'' is a 1963 British-West German drama film directed by Seth Holt and starring Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck and Ian Bannen. It is a remake of the 1938 film '' S.O.S. Sahara'', which had been based on a play by Jean Martet. Plot On December 9, 1962, the film ''Station Six Sahara'' premiered featuring stars Carroll Baker, Peter Van Eyck, Hansjörg Felmy and many more. Martin, played by Hansjörg Felmy, takes a job and heads out into the Sahara Desert to a pumping station in which he will work for an oil company out of the United States. The truck that Martin is riding in is carrying a coffin that is being used to transfer a worker from the oil pumping station that was killed on the job. The person in the coffin was the former owner of Martin's new job. Martin has chosen to work for 5 years for the oil company that is owned and operated by an authoritarian named Kramer. Kramer is known as a disillusioned American that has ties with Germany. Martin and Kramer s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Prize Of Arms
''A Prize of Arms'' is a 1962 British crime film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Patrick Magee and Tom Bell with early appearances by several actors including Fulton Mackay, Michael Ripper, Stephen Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer, Tom Adams and Rodney Bewes. Set in 1956, the film follows a criminal gang as it tries to rob an army pay convoy during the Suez Crisis. Plot Three criminals have hatched a plan to rob an army barracks. The troops are about to be dispatched to take part in a war in the Middle East and there is believed to be a large amount of pay on the premises, to be shipped out with them. The gang enters an army barracks, disguised as soldiers and proceeds to the pay corps headquarters where, under the guise of maintenance work, they make sure that the alarms are disabled — which will give them time to make their escape once the robbery takes place. For the rest of the day they try to integrate themselves into the workings of the base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pure Hell Of St Trinian's
''The Pure Hell of St Trinian's'' is a 1960 British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School. Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat, it was the third in a series of four films. Plot The St. Trinian's girls burn down the school building and are, subsequently, put on trial at the Old Bailey in London, found guilty, and await sentencing the next day by Judge Slender (Raymond Huntley). This leads to rejoicing at the Ministry of Education, and in Barset, the school's village home, where Sergeant Ruby Gates (Joyce Grenfell) and Superintendent Samuel Kemp-Bird (Lloyd Lamble) can finally plan their marriage, which is predicated on the end of St. Trinian's. However, beautiful sixth-form pupil Rosalie Dawn ( Julie Alexander) has been flirting with Slender during the trial, where she gives him her telephone numbers, and continues flirting at the sentencing session. Consequently, when Professor of Philosophy Canford ( Cecil Parker) of the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Right And Centre
''Left Right and Centre'' is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim. It was produced by Frank Launder. A political comedy, it follows the events of a by-election in a small English town. Plot Robert Wilcot, a popular television personality, is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale in the upcoming by-election. His selection is mostly due to the influence of his uncle, Lord Wilcot, a powerful local figure. His opponent is to be Stella Stoker, a fishmonger's daughter with a degree from the London School of Economics who has been chosen to stand for the Labour Party. Travelling up on the train to Earndale, the two candidates meet and while she quickly works out who he is, he remains ignorant of her true identity. To try to show off he begins to tell her about his selection for the seat and how he expects to win. He describes his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Other Eden (film)
''This Other Eden'' is a 1959 Irish comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips and Niall MacGinnis. The film's prologue involves the death of an Irish commandant during the Irish War of Independence, who is shot by the Black and Tans. The film then skips forward a few decades, to the unveiling of a statue commemorating the war hero. When an Englishman arrives to settle in Ireland, the locals distrust him and soon blame him for the statue's destruction. Plot The film opens with a prologue set during the Irish War of Independence. Mick Devereaux and Commandant Jack Carberry of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are meeting a British officer to negotiate a cease-fire. Carberry walks down a deserted road and is suddenly fired upon by hidden Black and Tan soldiers. Devereaux kneels beside Carberry as he dies, and Carberry pleads with him to "see to everything". Several years later, local Gombeen man McRoarty is attending a meeting of the Carb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Further Up The Creek
''Further Up the Creek'' is a 1958 British comedy film written and directed by Val Guest and starring David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird, Desmond Llewelyn and Lionel Jeffries. It served as a follow up to '' Up the Creek'', with Peter Sellers not reprising his role because it clashed with the filming of ''The Mouse That Roared''. Frankie Howerd replaced him. Plot Navy frigate the "Aristotle" is sold to a Middle Eastern power, and against regulations the ship's bosun tries to make a profit by selling tickets to passengers seeking a luxury cruise. When the Captain discovers what is going on, he attempts to straighten things out. Cast * David Tomlinson as Lieutenant Fairweather * Frankie Howerd as Bosun * Shirley Eaton as Jane * Thora Hird as Mrs. Galloway * Lionel Jeffries as Steady Barker * Lionel Murton as Perkins * David Lodge as Scouse * John Warren as Cooky * Sam Kydd as Bates * Edwin Richfield as Bennett * Peter Collingwood as Chippy * Ian Whittaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Upstairs (1958 Film)
''The Man Upstairs'' is a 1958 British psychological drama film directed by Don Chaffey. It stars Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. The film was produced by Robert Dunbar for Act Films Ltd. Plot Peter Watson, a tenant of a boarding house, is troubled with pain and an inability to sleep. He repeatedly tries unsuccessfully to light the gas-fire that requires coins and seeks help from another lodger, artist Nicholas, who is spending the night with his model, and is reluctant to be disturbed. Another neighbour, Pollen, calls for police help. The other occupants in the property are awake by this time, and one of them, Mrs Barnes, tries to help the mentally confused Watson (known to them as John Wilson) but he also refuses her help. The police clash with Mr Sanderson, a mental health worker, who thinks he can take Watson, who is armed, without complications, but when a police sergeant is injured Inspector Thompson is determined to remove him by force if necessary. Eventually Mrs B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |