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Hugh Perceval
Hugh Perceval (18 February 1908 – July 1987) was a British screenwriter and film producer.Landy p.516 He was portrayed by Michael Kitchen in the 2011 film ''My Week with Marilyn'', which chronicles the filming of ''The Prince and the Showgirl'' (1957), whose production Perceval managed. Filmography Producer * '' After Dark'' (1933) * '' The Jewel'' (1933) * ''Death at Broadcasting House'' (1934) * ''The Silent Passenger'' (1935) * ''Calling the Tune'' (1936) * ''The House of the Spaniard'' (1936) * '' Secret Lives'' (1937, also screenwriter) * ''Brief Ecstasy'' (1937) * '' What a Man!'' (1938) * '' Garrison Follies'' (1940) * ''Danny Boy'' (1941) * ''The Missing Million'' (1942) * ''Front Line Kids'' (1942) * ''The Third Man'' (1949) * ''Outcast of the Islands'' (1951) * '' Home at Seven'' (1952) * ''Who Goes There!'' (1952) * '' The Ringer'' (1952) * ''The Holly and the Ivy'' (1952) * ''The Man Between'' (1953) * ''Three Cases of Murder'' (1955) * ''The Man Who Loved Redheads'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, west-northwest of central London and south-southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within : Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High Wycombe. The town is adjacent to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has a wide area of Georgian, neo-Georgian and Tudor revival high street architecture, known as the Old Town. It is known for the first model village in the world and the National Film and Television School. Beaconsfield was named 'Britain's richest town' (based on an average house price of £684,474) by ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 2008. In 2011 the post town had the highest proportion in the UK of £1 million-plus homes for sale (at 47%, compared to 3.5% nationally). In 2011, Burkes Road was named as the second most expensive road in the country outside London. History and description The parish comprises Beaconsfield town and land mainly given o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrison Follies
''Garrison Follies'' is a 1940 British comedy musical revue film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Barry Lupino, Nancy O'Neil and H.F. Maltby. It was produced by the independent Butcher's Film ServiceMackenzie p.178 and shot at Walton Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Holmes Paul. Cast * Barry Lupino as Alf Shufflebottom * Nancy O'Neil as Sally Richards * H.F. Maltby as Maj. Hall-Vett * John Kevan as Dick Munro * Hugh Dempster as Adjutant * Gabrielle Brune as Lady Cynthia Clayton * Neville Brook as Commanding Officer * Dennis Val Norton as Plummer * Harry Herbert as Self - Harry Herbert * Sylvia Kellaway as Self - Sylvia Kellaway * Ann Lenner as Self - Ann Lenner * The Six Rose Petals as Themselves, The Six Rose Petals * Percival Mackey Thomas Percival Montague Mackey (1 June 1894 – 23 November 1950) was a British pianist, composer and bandleader. He is particularly known for his work as a composer and musical direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raising A Riot
''Raising a Riot'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser and Mandy Miller about a naval officer who attempts to look after his three children in his wife's absence. It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Joseph Bato. Plot summary Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging from five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighbourhood. Cast * Kenneth More as Peter Kent * Shelagh Fraser as Mary Kent * Mandy Miller as Anne Kent * Gary Billings as Peter Kent * Fusty Bentine as Fusty Kent * Ronald Squire as Grampy * Olga Lindo as Aunt Maud * Lionel Murton as Hary * Mary Laura Wood as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Loved Redheads
''The Man Who Loved Redheads'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Moira Shearer, John Justin and Roland Culver. The film is based on the play '' Who is Sylvia?'' (1950) by Terence Rattigan, which is reputedly a thinly veiled account of the author's philandering father. The film follows the play fairly closely, its main difference being the turning of Sylvia into a redhead. The film contains a ballet sequence featuring extracts from '' The Sleeping Beauty'', which was decorated by Loudon Sainthill. Plot Young peer and junior member of the Foreign Office, Mark St. Neots (John Justin), is obsessed with the memory of Sylvia (Moira Shearer), a 16-year-old redhead he met at a party as a boy, and vowed he would love forever. Now older and respectably married, Mark still retains his image of the beautiful young girl with the red hair, and spends the rest of his life searching for her, through a string of casual affairs. Cast * Moira Shearer - Sylvia / ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Cases Of Murder
''Three Cases of Murder'' is a 1955 British horror omnibus film comprising three stories: "The Picture," "You Killed Elizabeth," and "Lord Mountdrago." Eamonn Andrews introduces each. Alan Badel appears in all three.John Hamilton, ''The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70'' Hemlock Books 2013 p 24-27 Cast Main cast * Orson Welles as Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) * John Gregson as Edgar Curtain ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment) * Elizabeth Sellars as Elizabeth ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment) * Emrys Jones as George Wheeler ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment) * Alan Badel as Owen (segment "Lord Mountdrago") / Mr. X (segment "In the Picture") / Harry (segment "You Killed Elizabeth") * André Morell as Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) * Hugh Pryse as Jarvis ("In the Picture" segment) * Leueen MacGrath as Woman in the House ("In the Picture" segment) * Eddie Byrne as Snyder ("In the Picture" segment) * Helen Cherry as Lady Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Between
''The Man Between'' (also known as ''Berlin Story'') is a 1953 UK, British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason, Claire Bloom and Hildegard Knef. The screenplay concerns a British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin, who is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc. Plot Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives at Tempelhof Airport to the post-war West Berlin, at that point still generally open to the people of East Berlin before the construction of the Berlin Wall. She looks around the war-ravaged city with her sister-in-law Bettina, including the ruins of the Reichstag building, Reichstag. After a night in a nightclub they plan to visit the eastern sector the next day. Entry is simple, and they show their papers and a barrier lifts to give them entry. The atmosphere is different, with huge posters of Stalin decorating the buildings. There they bump into Ivo Kern (James Mason) in a cafe. They return to the west sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holly And The Ivy (film)
''The Holly and the Ivy'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, and Margaret Leighton with Denholm Elliott, John Gregson and Hugh Williams also in the cast. It was adapted from the 1950 play of the same name by Wynyard Browne. Produced by Anatole de Grunwald and co-scripted by Browne and de Grunwald it was distributed by British Lion Films. It is about an Irish clergyman whose neglect of his grown offspring, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering. The film was shot at Shepperton Studios outside London with sets designed by the art director Vincent Korda. Actresses Margaret Halstan and Maureen Delany reprised their roles from the stage. It was released in the United States in 1954 by the independent Pacemaker Pictures. Plot It is traditional for the widespread Gregory family to return home for Christmas at the parsonage in the remote village of Wynde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ringer (1952 Film)
''The Ringer'' is a 1952 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Herbert Lom, Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Greta Gynt, William Hartnell, and Denholm Elliott. It was Hamilton's directorial debut and the third English-language sound version of Edgar Wallace's 1929 play. It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London. The film's sets were designed by the art director William Hutchinson. Premise An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes from a mysterious killer who's also a master of disguise, and the police are called in to protect him. Cast * Herbert Lom as Maurice Meister * Donald Wolfit as Dr. Lomond * Mai Zetterling as Lisa * Greta Gynt as Cora Ann Milton * William Hartnell as Sam Hackett * Denholm Elliott as John Lemley * Norman Wooland as Inspector Bliss * Dora Bryan as Mrs. Hackett * Charles Victor as Inspector Wembury * Walter Fitzgerald as Commissioner * John Stuart as Gardener * John Slater as Bell * Edward Chapman as Stranger * Campbell S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Goes There!
''Who Goes There!'' is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson and George Cole. The film depicts the farcical activities of the various inhabitants of a grace and favour house near St James's Palace in Central London. Production It is based on a 1950 play of the same title by John Dighton, who also wrote the screenplay. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with some location filming around the Palace in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton. It was retitled ''The Passionate Sentry'' for its United States release with American censors removing two uses of the word "Cripes!". A version of ''Who Goes There!'' was broadcast on the BBC Radio ''Saturday Night Theatre'' on 20 March 1954.http://www.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk/broadcasts.php Cast * Nigel Patrick as Miles Cornwall * Valerie Hobson as Alex Cornwall * George Cole as Guardsman Arthur Crisp * Peggy Cummins as Christina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home At Seven (film)
''Home at Seven'' is a 1952 British mystery drama film directed by and starring Ralph Richardson. It also features Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Campbell Singer and Michael Shepley. It is based on the 1950 play '' Home at Seven'' by R. C. Sherriff. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art directors Vincent Korda and Frederick Pusey. The film is Richardson's only work as director. Guy Hamilton was assistant director. It was released on DVD in the UK on 30 June 2014 by Network Distributing. Plot Preston, a City of London banker, returns at 7 pm to his suburban home in Kent one Tuesday evening to discover that he has been missing for 24 hours, yet he does not remember the lost day. He discovers that he was seen at the social club which he is the treasurer of on Monday evening taking 515 pounds from the safe. The man who saw this, Robinson, is found murdered in an allotment the evening he comes home. When questioned by the police he lies that he spent the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outcast Of The Islands
''Outcast of the Islands'' is a 1951 British adventure drama film directed by Carol Reed based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel ''An Outcast of the Islands''. The film features Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley and Wendy Hiller. Plot Peter Willems (Trevor Howard), a selfish and ambitious man, is accused of stealing in his position as manager of a shipping port operation near Singapore. After he is dismissed for his misconduct he reacquaints himself with the trading ship Capt. Lingard ( Ralph Richardson) who befriended him as a 12-year-old boy. Lingard agrees to help Willems regain his reputation by taking him to a trading village located up a difficult-to-navigate channel near the coast of Batam. Lingard's son-in-law, Elmer Almayer (Robert Morley), operates a trading operation for Capt. Lingard in the village. Lingard asks Almayer to take Willems under his wing and teach him the business. While Lingard is away on one of his sea trips, Willems abuses his trust, seduce ... [...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] |
