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Jack E. Cox
Jack E. Cox, BSC, known variously as J. J. Cox, Jack Cox, John J. Cox and John Cox, was an English cinematographer born in London, on 26 July 1896. After a prolific career of 85 films in 33 years, Cox died in Surrey on 29 July 1960. Selected filmography * ''The Four Feathers'' (1921) * '' The Yellow Claw'' (1921) * ''Petticoat Loose'' (1922) *'' The Gold Cure'' (1925) * '' Confessions'' (1925) *'' The Chinese Bungalow'' (1926) *'' Hindle Wakes'' (1927) *''Blighty'' (1927) * '' The Ring'' (1927) *''The Farmer's Wife'' (1928) *''Champagne'' (1928) * ''Weekend Wives'' (1928) *'' The Manxman'' (1929) * ''The Lady from the Sea'' (1929) *'' Blackmail'' (1929) *''Murder!'' (1930) * '' The Middle Watch'' (1930) * '' Almost a Honeymoon'' (1930) *'' Juno and the Paycock'' (1930) * '' Cape Forlorn'' (1931) *''The Skin Game'' (1931) * ''The Love Habit'' (1931) * ''Mary'' (1931) * '' Glamour'' (1931) * '' Lucky Girl'' (1932) * '' Sleepless Nights'' (1932) *''Hawley's of High Street'' (1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London, England
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Farmer's Wife
''The Farmer's Wife'' is a 1928 British silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Harker. It is adapted from a 1916 play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon. ''The Farmer's Wife'' is produced by British International Pictures at Elstree studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. The film was remade as a 1941 film '' The Farmer's Wife'' directed by Leslie Arliss. Plot Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) dies, and shortly afterwards his daughter marries and leaves home, leaving him on his own with his two servants. His wife had told him that he should remarry after her death, so he pursues some local spinsters who were at his daughter's wedding after he and his housekeeper Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis) make out a list of possibilities. First is Widow Louisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary (1931 Film)
''Mary'' (1931) is a British-German thriller film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the German language version of Hitchcock's ''Murder!'' (1930), shot simultaneously on the same sets with German speaking actors. The film is based on the 1928 book ''Enter Sir John'' by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, and stars Alfred Abel and Olga Tschechowa. Miles Mander reprises his role as Gordon Druce from ''Murder!'', though the character's name was changed to Gordon Moore. Plot Mary Baring (renamed Diana in the English version) is a member of a touring acting troupe. When she is found one day with no memory next to the corpse of a colleague, all circumstances point to the fact that she committed the crime. At the murder trial, theater producer, writer and actor Sir John Menier is the only juror who has doubts about her guilt to the end. However, he bowed to pressure from the rest of the jury and finally voted guilty. Driven by his bad conscience, Sir John sets out on his own to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Love Habit
''The Love Habit'' is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Seymour Hicks, Margot Grahame and Edmund Breon. It was made at Elstree Studios with production beginning in August 1930.Wood p.69 Produced by British International Pictures, the largest British film company of the time, it was released in January the following year. It was based on a French play ''Pour avoir Adrienne'' by Louis Verneuil. Cast * Seymour Hicks as Justin Abelard * Margot Grahame as Julie Bubois * Edmund Breon as Alphonse Dubois * Ursula Jeans as Rose Pom Pom * Clifford Heatherley as Santorelli * Walter Armitage as Max Quattro * Elsa Lanchester Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British-American actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Obituary '' Variety'', 31 December 1986. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the F ... as Mathilde References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Skin Game (1931 Film)
''The Skin Game'' is a 1931 British drama film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1920 play by John Galsworthy and produced by British International Pictures. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrists and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them. Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye reprised their respective roles as Mr. Hornblower and Mrs. Hillcrist from the 1921 silent version. Plot The plot concerns a feud between the long-established (upper class) Hillcrists, played by C.V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the ''nouveau riche'' (formerly working class) Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam, and Frank Lawton. Underlying themes in the story include class warfare and the results of avarice. For his love of riches, Mr. Hornblower coldly enjoys a "skin game" of buying up land under false pretenses of letting the tenant farmers remain and then booting them out, in order to build factories. The Hillcrists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Forlorn
''Cape Forlorn'' is a 1931 British drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fay Compton, Frank Harvey and Ian Hunter. It was the English-language version of a British International Pictures multiple-language production with France and Germany which also made ''Le cap perdu'' and '' Menschen im Käfig''. The film is also known as ''The Love Storm''. It was based on a stage play by Harvey. Plot A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead. Cast * Fay Compton as Eileen Kell * Frank Harvey as William Kell * Ian Hunter as Gordon Kingsley * Edmund Willard Edmund Willard (19 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno And The Paycock (1930 Film)
''Juno and the Paycock'' is a 1930 British tragicomedy film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. Plot Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the original stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene, but has no other role. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman) lives in a two-room tenement flat with his wife Juno (Sara Allgood) and their two adult children Mary (Kathleen O'Regan) and Johnny ( John Laurie). Juno has dubbed her husband "the Paycock" because she thinks him as useless and vain as a peacock. Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the family's meagre finances at the neighbourhood pub. Daughter Mary has a job but is on strike against the victimisation of a co-worker. Son Johnny has become a semi-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost A Honeymoon (1930 Film)
''Almost a Honeymoon'' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison, Dodo Watts and Donald Calthrop. It was based on the play '' Almost a Honeymoon'' by Walter Ellis. A second adaptation was made in 1938. It was made by British International Pictures at their Elstree Studios. Premise An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him. Cast * Clifford Mollison as Basil Dibley * Dodo Watts as Rosalie Quilter * Lamont Dickson as Cuthbert de Gray * Donald Calthrop as Charles, the butler * C. M. Hallard as Sir James Jephson * Winifred Hall as Lavinia Pepper * Pamela Carme as Margaret Brett * Edward Thane as Clutterbuck Critical reception Allmovie noted that "Donald Calthrop, as the butler, has all the best lines." See also *''The Man at Midnight ''The Man at Midnight'' (French: ''Le mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Middle Watch (1930 Film)
''The Middle Watch'' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Norman Walker and starring Owen Nares, Jacqueline Logan, Jack Raine and Dodo Watts. It was based on a play of the same title by Ian Hay. (The play is mentioned by David Niven in his memoir , along withe Ann Todd who had a minor role in it )The film's sets were designed by John Mead. The film was made by British International Pictures at its Elstree Studios. It was later remade in 1940 by the same company. Cast * Owen Nares as Captain Maitland * Jacqueline Logan as Mary Carlton * Jack Raine as Commander Baddeley * Dodo Watts as Fay Eaton * Frederick Volpe as Admiral Sir Herbert Hewitt * Henry Wenman as Marine Ogg * Reginald Purdell as Corporal Duckett * Margaret Halstan as Lady Agatha Hewitt * Phyllis Loring as Nancy Hewitt * Hamilton Keene as Captain Randall * Muriel Aked as Charlotte Hopkinson * George Carr as Ah Fong * Syd Crossley Syd Crossley (18 November 1885 – 1 November 1960) was an English stage a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder!
''Murder!'' is a 1930 British thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville and Walter C. Mycroft, it is based on the 1928 novel ''Enter Sir John'' by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after ''Blackmail'' (1929) and '' Juno and the Paycock'' (1930). Plot In 1930, Diana Baring (Norah Baring), a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit the murder was at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes the crime was committed. The two young women were thought to have been rivals, and the police arrest her. Diana withholds some important information deliberately, to protect something about the identity of a man that she will not name. At her trial most of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackmail (1929 Film)
''Blackmail'' is a 1929 British thriller drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard. Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her. After starting production as a silent film, British International Pictures decided to adapt ''Blackmail'' into a separate sound film. It became the first successful European talkie; a silent version was released for theaters not equipped for sound (at 6,740 feet), with the sound version (7,136 feet) released at the same time. Both versions are held in the British Film Institute collection. ''Blackmail'' is frequently cited as the first British sound feature film. Voted the best British film of 1929 in a UK poll the year it was released. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for '' Time Out'' magazine ranked ''Blackmail'' as the 59th best British film e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady From The Sea (1929 Film)
''The Lady from the Sea'' is a 1929 British romance film directed by Castleton Knight and starring Ray Milland, Mona Goya, and Moore Marriott. A fisherman working off the Goodwin Sands becomes romantically attached to an upper-class woman. The film was also known as ''Goodwin Sands''. The film was originally released as a silent film, but was re-released in a sound film version. It was shot at Elstree Studios and originally released by Paramount British.Wood p.67 The film's sets were designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. Cast * Mona Goya as Claire le Grange * Ray Milland as Tom Roberts *Moore Marriott George Thomas Moore Marriott (14 September 1885 – 11 December 1949) was an English character actor best remembered for the series of films he made with Will Hay. His first appearance with Hay was in the film '' Dandy Dick'' (1935), but he wa ... as Old Roberts *Bruce Gordon as Dick Roberts *Eugenie Amami as Rose *Anita Graham as Mrs. Roberts * Wilfred Shine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
