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Hal Young
Hal Young (1890–1970) was a British cinematographer.Macnab p.35 After gaining experience in Hollywood he returned to his native Britain where he was employed by Gainsborough Pictures. Selected filmography * '' The Common Law'' (1916) * ''The Foolish Virgin'' (1916) * ''The Price She Paid'' (1917) * ''Scandal'' (1917) * '' Private Peat'' (1918) * ''The Studio Girl'' (1918) * ''My Cousin'' (1918) * '' Here Comes the Bride'' (1919) * ''Anne of Green Gables'' (1919) * ''The Witness for the Defense'' (1919) * ''Civilian Clothes'' (1920) * ''The Great Day'' (1920) * ''Appearances'' (1921) * ''The Mystery Road'' (1921) * ''The Call of Youth'' (1921) * ''Burn 'Em Up Barnes'' (1921) * '' Fox Farm'' (1922) * '' The Rat'' (1925) * ''The Prude's Fall'' (1925) * ''The Triumph of the Rat'' (1926) * '' The Lodger'' (1927) * ''Suspense'' (1930) * '' Tons of Money'' (1930) * ''Many Waters'' (1931) * '' Love on the Spot'' (1932) * ''Broken Blossoms ''Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Day
''The Great Day'' is a 1920 British drama film directed by Hugh Ford. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. On 17 April 1921, Paramount Pictures released the film in the US at five reels (roughly 50 minutes). The film is now considered to be a lost film. Plot As described in a film publication, Frank Beresford (Burleigh) and Clara Borstwick (Hume) have married against the wishes of her father, Sir John Borstwick (Bourchier). Immediately following the marriage, Lillian Leeson (Albanesi), to whom Frank had formerly been married, appears with the intent to blackmail. Frank had told Clara of the former marriage and had believed that Lillian was dead. Frank goes to Paris to find a former friend that he believed to be dead who was a former husband of Lillian. He recognizes Dave Leeson (Kerr) and they return to England. Dave frustrates the attempt by Lillian to spoil Frank's happiness, and there is a reconciliation with Clara. Cast * Arthur Bourchier as Sir John Borstwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love On The Spot
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.''Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary'' (1998) Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self, or animals.Fromm, Erich; ''The Art of Loving'', Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Many Waters
''Many Waters'' is a 1986 novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the author's Time Quintet (also known as the Time Quartet). The title is taken from the Song of Solomon 8:7: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man were to give all his wealth for love, it would be utterly scorned." The principal characters of the story are Sandy and Dennys Murry, twin brothers who are somewhat out of place in the context of the multifarious and eccentric Murry family from ''A Wrinkle in Time''. The action of the story follows that of ''A Wind in the Door'' but precedes the climactic, apocalyptic event in ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. Plot summary In the middle of a New England winter, identical twin brothers Sandy and Dennys accidentally disturb an experiment in their parents' laboratory and are teleported to a sandy desert. There, they are acquired by water-prospector 'Japheth' and guided to an oasis, but Dennys is separated from the others. Sandy remains with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tons Of Money (1930 Film)
''Tons of Money'' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare and Gordon James, the same artistes responsible for the Aldwych farces. It was a remake of the 1924 film '' Tons of Money'' which had been based on the 1922 play '' Tons of Money'' by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. It was made at British and Dominion's Elstree StudiosWood p.70 with sets designed by the art director Lawrence P. Williams. Premise A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors. Cast * Ralph Lynn as Aubrey Allington * Yvonne Arnaud as Louise Allington * Mary Brough as Benita Mullet * Robertson Hare as Chesterman * Gordon James as George Maitland * Madge Saunders as Jane Everard * Philip Hewland as Henry * Willie Warde Willie Warde (1857 – 18 August 1943) was an English actor, dancer, singer and choreographer. The son of a dancer, his first theatre work was with a dance compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspense (1930 Film)
Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty, anxiety, being undecided, or being doubtful. In a dramatic work, suspense is the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty, puzzle, or mystery, particularly as it affects a character for whom one has sympathy. However, suspense is not exclusive to fiction. In drama In literature, films, television, and plays, suspense is a major device for securing and maintaining interest. It may be of several major types: in one, the outcome is uncertain and the suspense resides in the question of ''who, what, or how''; in another, the outcome is inevitable from foregoing events, and the suspense resides in the audience's anxious or frightened anticipation in the question of ''when''. Readers feel suspense when they are deeply curious about ''what'' will happen next, or when they know what is likely to happen but don’t know ''how'' it will happen. Even in historical fiction, with characters whose life stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Story Of The London Fog
''The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' is a 1927 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. The film is based on the 1913 novel '' The Lodger'' by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ''Who Is He?'' co-written by Belloc Lowndes. Its plot concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer in London. Hitchcock's first thriller, the film established him as a name director. Upon its release the trade journal ''Bioscope'' wrote: "It is possible that this film is the finest British production ever made". It also saw Hitchcock make his first cameo appearances in a film; he was depicted sitting in a newsroom, and in the second, standing in a crowd as the leading man is arrested. Plot A young blonde woman screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Triumph Of The Rat
''The Triumph of the Rat'' is a 1926 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans and Nina Vanna. Background The film is the second in a trilogy featuring Novello as Pierre Boucheron (The Rat), following the popular success of the previous year's '' The Rat.'' Both films were based on plays cowrittened by Ivor Novello, Graham Cutts, Constance Collier and Reginald Fogwell. Jeans also returned to reprise her role from the first film, as did Marie Ault and Julie Suedo. A notable absence is the character of Odile, a central figure in ''The Rat'' as played by Mae Marsh. At the end of the previous film Pierre had seemingly rejected the lure of life in high society as represented by the Jeans character of Zélie, and he and Odile had finally realised the depth of their love for each other. However ''The Triumph of the Rat'' finds him back with Zélie, and not only does Odile not appear in the film, but not even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prude's Fall
''The Prude's Fall'' is a 1925 British silent film, silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Julanne Johnston and Warwick Ward. The film was shot at Islington Studios, produced by a company that would soon develop into Gainsborough Pictures. It was an adaptation of a play by Rudolph Besier and May Edington with the screenplay written by Alfred Hitchcock. Its German title is ''Seine zweite Frau''. It was also known by the alternative title of ''Dangerous Virtue''. It was not very well regarded. Iris Barry's review in the ''Daily Mail'' ran as follows: "An English picture, not of first-rate quality, but with an interesting cast."''Daily Mail'', 23 November 1925, p. 6. Cast * Jane Novak as Beatrice Audley * Julanne Johnston as Sonia Roubetsky * Warwick Ward as Andre le Briquet * Hugh Miller (actor), Hugh Miller as Marquis de Rocqueville * Gladys Jennings as Laura Westonry * Miles Mander as Sir Neville Moreton * Henry Vibart as Dean Carey * Marie A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rat (1925 Film)
''The Rat'' is a 1925 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans. The film is based on the 1924 play of the same title written by Novello and Constance Collier, set in the Parisian criminal underworld. The film's louche settings and melodramatic storyline proved popular with audiences, and its success spawned two sequels, ''The Triumph of the Rat'' (1926) and ''The Return of the Rat'' (1929). Plot Zélie de Chaumet (Jeans) is a bored, sensation-seeking demimondaine, living with her older lover and keeper Herman Stetz (Robert Scholz) in a lavish apartment in a wealthy area of Paris. By contrast career criminal Pierre Boucheron (Novello), known as The Rat, lives with his casual girlfriend Odile (Marsh) in a run-down room in a squalid part of the city. One evening Zélie has an arrangement to attend a performance at the Folies Bergère with friends. Fearing that this will be a dreary evening out, she asks Herman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Farm (film)
''Fox Farm'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Guy Newall and starring Newall, Ivy Duke and Barbara Everest. It is based on the 1911 novel '' Fox Farm'' by Warwick Deeping. A farmer's wife becomes obsessed with the high life, and abandons him after he loses his sight. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.Warren p.11 Unlike many of the era, the film is still extant. Cast * Guy Newall - James Falconer * Ivy Duke - Ann Wetherall * Barbara Everest Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film ''The Man Without a Soul''. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 his ... - Kate Falconer * Cameron Carr - Jack Rickerby * A. Bromley Davenport - Sam Wetherall * Charles Evemy - Slim Wetherall * John Alexander - Jacob Boase References Bibliography * Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s''. I.B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921 Film)
''Burn 'Em Up Barnes'' is a 1921 American silent comedy action film directed by George Beranger and starring Johnny Hines, Edmund Breese and George Fawcett.Munden p. 98 It was loosely remade as a 1934 film of the same title. Cast * Johnny Hines as Johnny 'Burn 'em Up' Barnes * Edmund Breese as King Cole * Betty Carpenter as Madge Thompson * George Fawcett as Flannel * J. Barney Sherry as Whitney Barnes * Matthew Betz as Ed Scott * Richard Thorpe as Stephen Thompson * Julia Swayne Gordon Julia Swayne Gordon (born Sarah Victoria Smith; October 29, 1878 – May 28, 1933) was an American actress who appeared in at least 228 films between 1908 and 1933. Early years Gordon was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Louis and Anna Smith and wa ... as Mrs. Whitney Barnes * Dorothy Leeds as Betty Scott * Harry Frazer as Francis Jones * Billy Boy Swinton as The Baby References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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