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Guy Kingsford
Guy Duncan Kingsford (September 30, 1911 – November 9, 1986) was an English-born American film, television, and radio actor. Biography Born in Redhill, Surrey in the United Kingdom, he was the son of British actor Walter Kingsford who moved with his wife to New York City. In 1938 he was in the theatrical production Once is Enough. He was in the US Army during World War II. He performed in a vaudeville-style variety show at Camp Sibert alongside other enlisted industry professionals. According to Sidney Skolsky, when Kingsford was traveling in Berlin, Germany that same year as part of a touring company, the Reich Film Chamber tried to recruit him to act in a propaganda film. In the role, he would have portrayed a "so-called "patriot" who would turn over United States military secrets to the German High Command." Kingsford was offered $3,000 up front and an additional $15,000 upon completion of the film. Kingsford sarcastically asked the recruiter from the Chamber if he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dressed To Kill (1946 Film)
''Dressed to Kill'', released in 1946, also known as ''Prelude to Murder'' (working title) and ''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code'' in the United Kingdom, is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The film has an original story, but combines elements of the short stories "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" and " A Scandal in Bohemia." It is one of four films in the series which are in the public domain. Plot John Davidson, a convicted thief in Dartmoor prison (played by an uncredited Cyril Delevanti) embeds code revealing the hidden location of extremely valuable stolen Bank of England currency printing plates in the melody notes of three music boxes that he crafts to be sold at auction. Each box plays a subtly different version of "The Swagman". At the auction each is purchased by a different buyer. Dr. Watson's friend Julian Emery, a music box collector, pays him and Sherlock Holmes a visit and tells the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayonet
A bayonet (from French ) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar firearm, allowing it to be used as a spear-like weapon.Brayley, Martin, ''Bayonets: An Illustrated History'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, , (2004), pp. 9–10, 83–85. From the 17th century to World War I, it was a weapon for infantry attacks. Today it is considered an ancillary weapon or a weapon of last resort. History The term ''bayonette'' itself dates back to the mid-to-late 16th century, but it is not clear whether bayonets at the time were knives that could be fitted to the ends of firearms, or simply a type of knife. For example, Cotgrave's 1611 ''Dictionarie'' describes the bayonet as "a kind of small flat pocket dagger, furnished with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle". Likewise, Pierre Borel wrote in 1655 that a kind of long-knife called a ''bayonette'' was made in Bayonne but does not give any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris After Dark
''Paris After Dark'' is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring George Sanders, Philip Dorn and Brenda Marshall. It portrays the activities of the French resistance in occupied Paris during World War II. The portrayal of the resistance was modeled on the Communist-led Front National, possibly due to the influence of screenwriter Harold Buchman who was known for his left-wing views.Dick p.148-49 The film's sets were designed by art directors James Basevi James Basevi (born 21 September 1890, Plymouth, Devon, England – d. 27 March 1962, Bellflower, California) was a British-born art director and special effects expert. After his military service during World War I Basevi emigrated to Canada an ... and John Ewing. Partial cast References Bibliography * Dick, Bernard F. ''The Star-spangled Screen: The American World War II Film''. University Press of Kentucky, 1996. * McLaughlin, Robert and Parry, Sally. ''We'll Always Have the Movies: Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Errors
''House of Errors'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Bernard B. Ray and written by Ewart Adamson and Eddie Davis (director), Eddie Davis. The film stars Harry Langdon, Charley Rogers, Marian Marsh, Ray Walker (actor), Ray Walker, Betty Blythe and John Holland (actor, 1908–1993), John Holland. The film was released on April 10, 1942, by Producers Releasing Corporation. Plot Cast *Harry Langdon as Bert *Charley Rogers as Alf *Marian Marsh as Florence Randall *Ray Walker (actor), Ray Walker as Jerry Fitzgerald *Betty Blythe as Mrs. Martha Randall *John Holland (actor, 1908–1993), John Holland as Paul Gordon *Guy Kingsford as Drake *Roy Butler as Mr. Carr *Gwen Gaze as Molly *Monte Collins as Prof. Stark *Vernon Dent as White *Robert Barron as Samson *Lynn Starr as Waitress *Richard Kipling as Hiram Randall *Frank Hagney as Black References External links * {{Bernard B. Ray 1942 films American comedy films 1942 comedy films Producers Releasing Corporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Of The Jungle (film)
''Law of the Jungle'' is a 1942 American adventure film directed by Jean Yarbrough. Plot A singer, Nona Brooks, is stranded at a hotel in Africa because her passport is missing. It turns out enemy agents, in collaboration with hotel owner Simmons, have stolen her papers, then try to use her for their nefarious schemes. Brooks flees and encounters paleontologist Larry Mason in the jungle. He and his assistant Jefferson Jones give her shelter, then fend off unfriendly natives while Simmons is murdered by the villainous agents. All looks hopeless until the tribal chief turns out to be a reasonable, Oxford-educated man who helps Larry and Nona out of their jam. Cast *Arline Judge as Nona Brooks *John 'Dusty' King as Larry Mason *Mantan Moreland as Jefferson 'Jeff' Jones *Arthur O'Connell as Simmons *C. Montague Shaw as Sgt. Burke *Guy Kingsford as Constable Whiteside *Laurence Criner as Chief Mojobo - an Oxford Graduate * Victor Kendall as Grozman *Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas To Bataan
''Texas to Bataan'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is the seventeenth in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars John "Dusty" King as Dusty, "Davy" Sharpe and Max "Alibi" Terhune, with Marjorie Manners, Steve Clark and Budd Buster. This is the first in the series with "Davy" Sharpe taking the place of Ray "Crash" Corrigan as one of the leads. The film is also known as ''The Long, Long Trail'' in the United Kingdom. Premise Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army buys some horses from the Range Busters' ranch for service in the Philippines. The cowboys tangle with Axis spies in both Texas and in the Philippines. Cast *John 'Dusty' King as Dusty King * David Sharpe as Davy Sharpe *Max Terhune as Alibi Terhune *Elmer as Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's dummy *Marjorie Manners as Dallas Conroy *Steve Clark as Tom Conroy *Budd Buster as Tad Kelton *E. Baucin as Cookie (the spy) * Frank Ellis as Ken Richards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stagecoach Express (film)
''Stagecoach Express'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by George Sherman and written by Arthur V. Jones. The film stars Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Al St. John, Robert Kent, Emmett Lynn and Guy Kingsford. The film was released on March 6, 1942, by Republic Pictures Republic Pictures Corporation (currently held under Melange Pictures, LLC) was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles. It had studio facilities in Studio City an .... Plot Cast References External links * 1942 films 1942 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American Western (genre) films 1940s English-language films Films directed by George Sherman Films shot in Los Angeles Republic Pictures films 1940s American films {{1940s-Western-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Hamilton Woman
''That Hamilton Woman'', also known as ''Lady Hamilton'', is a 1941 black-and-white historical film drama produced and directed by Alexander Korda for his British company during his exile in the United States. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the film tells the story of the rise and fall of Emma Hamilton, dance-hall girl and courtesan, who married Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, and later became Admiral Horatio Nelson's mistress. The film was a critical and financial success, and while on the surface the plot is both a war story and a romance set in Napoleonic times, it was also intended to function as a film that would portray Britain positively within the context of World War II, which was being fought at that time. At the time it was released, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Denmark had all surrendered to the Nazis and the Soviet Union was still officially allied with them, so the British were fighting against the Nazis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escort Girl (film)
''Escort Girl'' is a 1941 American film directed by Edward E. Kaye; it is also known as ''Scarlet Virgin''. Plot summary Ruth Ashley (Betty Compson) is a former escort girl who now owns the Hollywood Escort Bureau in Los Angeles together with Gregory Stone (Wheeler Oakman). Ruth is co-owner of the Café Martinique, where the escorts go with their dates to watch striptease and drink champagne. The escort bureau is managed by Breeze Nolan (Guy Kingsford) who provides customers with both male and female escorts. Ruth has a daughter, June (Margaret Marquis), who is ignorant of her mother's occupation. June believes that her mother works in real estate. Ruth had sent her daughter to a private school in the eastern U.S. Eventually June is engaged to Drake Hamilton (Robert Kellard), and when Drake travels to Los Angeles for work, June decides to accompany him to meet her mother. At the same time, Ruth and her partner learn that the district attorney is planning to put an end to illega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Go Lucky (1936 Film)
''Happy Go Lucky'' is a 1936 American musical film directed by Aubrey Scotto and written by Olive Cooper. The film stars Phil Regan, Evelyn Venable, Jed Prouty, William Newell, Jonathan Hale and Harlan Briggs. The film was released on December 14, 1936. by Republic Pictures. Plot Cast * Phil Regan as John L. 'Happy Jack' Cole / Bill Lyons *Evelyn Venable as Mary Gorham *Jed Prouty as Charles Gorham * William Newell as Charlie Davis *Jonathan Hale as J. Lansing Bennett *Harlan Briggs as U.S. Consul E.R. Brown *Stanley Andrews as Capt. Matzdorf *Claude King as Col. Wallis *Carleton Young as Al *Karl Hackett as Porozzi * Guy Kingsford as Joe *Howard Hickman as Dr. Wilson *Willie Fung Willie Fung (3 March 1896 – 16 April 1945) was a Chinese-American film actor who played supporting roles in 125 American films between 1922 and 1944. Like many Chinese actors working in Hollywood during the era, he often played Japanese charac ... as Coolie Fisherman References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Headline Woman
''The Headline Woman'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by William Nigh and starring Heather Angel and Ford Sterling. The film is also known as ''The Woman in the Case'' in the United Kingdom. Cast * Heather Angel as Myrna Van Buren *Roger Pryor as Bob Grayson *Ford Sterling as Hugo Meyer *Conway Tearle as Police Commissioner Frank Desmond * Robert Gleckler as Harry Chase *Russell Hopton as Craig, Reporter *Jack La Rue as Phil Zarias *Theodore von Eltz as Johnny "Full House" Corinti *Morgan Wallace as Clarkey *Franklin Pangborn as Hamilton, Reporter * Ward Bond as Johnson, Reporter *Wade Boteler as Police Lt. Flanagan *Syd Saylor as Murphy, Reporter * George J. Lewis as O'Shay, Reporter *George "Gabby" Hayes as Police Desk Sgt. Duffy *Wheeler Oakman as Panther Fielding *Lillian Miles as Trini *Warner Richmond Warner Richmond (born Werner Paul Otto Raetzmann; January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a stock theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salome (1953 Film)
''Salome'' is a 1953 American drama Biblical film directed by William Dieterle and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Jesse Lasky Jr. The music score was by George Duning, the dance music by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by Charles Lang. Rita Hayworth's costumes were designed by Jean Louis. Hayworth's dances for this film were choreographed by Valerie Bettis. This film was the last produced by Hayworth's production company, the Beckworth Corporation. The film stars Rita Hayworth as Salome, as well as Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton and Judith Anderson, with Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel and Basil Sydney. Plot Although based on the New Testament story, the film does not follow the Biblical text, critically passing the blame of John the Baptist's death wholly upon her mother. In Galilee, during the rule of Rome's Tiberius Caesar (Cedric Hardwicke), King Herod ( Charles Laughton) and Queen Herodias (Judith Anderson) sit on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
