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Jack Stewart (actor)
Jack Stewart (1913–1966) was a Scottish actor. In addition to his movie roles, he appeared in many British television series. Selected filmography * ''The Gorbals Story'' (1950) - Peter Reilly * ''Morning Departure'' (1950) - Leading Seaman Kelly * ''Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.'' (1951) - Seaman (uncredited) * '' The Dark Light'' (1951) - Matt * '' A Case for PC 49'' (1951) - Cutler * '' Hunted'' (1952) - Mr. Campbell * ''The Brave Don't Cry'' (1952) - Willie Duncan * ''Ghost Ship'' (1952) - 2nd Engineer * ''The Kidnappers'' (1953) - Dominie * '' Stryker of the Yard'' (1953) * ''The Maggie'' (1954) - Skipper * ''Trouble in the Glen'' (1954) - Thomas - the Gatekeeper (uncredited) * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) - Mac Gregson * ''Johnny, You're Wanted'' (1956) - Inspector Bennett * '' The Intimate Stranger'' (1956) - Constable Burton (uncredited) * '' The Spanish Gardener'' (1956) - Police Escort * ''The Steel Bayonet'' (1957) - Pvt. Wentworthy * ''The Heart Within'' (1957) - I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Case For PC 49
''A Case for PC 49'' is a 1951 British mystery film directed by Francis Searle and starring Brian Reece, Joy Shelton and Christine Norden.Chibnall & MacFarlane p.79 It was made by Hammer Films at Bray Studios. The film was based on a popular radio series, which already been adapted into the 1949 production ''The Adventures of PC 49''. It was released as a second feature. Cast * Brian Reece as Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby * Joy Shelton as Joan Carr * Christine Norden as Della Dainton * Leslie Bradley as Victor Palantine * George McLeod as Inspector Wilson * Campbell Singer as Sgt. Wright * Jack Stewart as Cutler * Michael Balfour as Chubby Price * Michael Ripper Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 – 28 June 2000) was an English character actor. He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. Along with Michael Gough ... as George Steele * Joan Seton as Elsie * Edna Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Intimate Stranger (1956 Film)
''The Intimate Stranger'' is a 1956 British film noir drama film directed by Joseph Losey (under the pseudonym Alec C. Snowden), and starring Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings and Roger Livesey. It was released in the U.S. as ''Finger of Guilt''. Plot Reggie Wilson's Hollywood career as a film editor ended after he had an affair with his boss's wife. He then moved to England, became successful and married the daughter of a producer. They are both working on a new film called ''Eclipse''. His new life is threatened when he starts receiving intimate letters from a woman. She reminds him of a relationship that they had some time ago, but has no knowledge of it. Cast * Richard Basehart - Reginald "Reggie" Wilson * Mary Murphy - Evelyn Stewart * Constance Cummings - Kay Wallace * Roger Livesey - Ben Case * Faith Brook - Lesley Wilson * Mervyn Johns - Ernest Chaple * Vernon Greeves - George Mearns * André Mikhelson - Steve Vadney * David Lodge - Police Sergeant B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jones (1963 Film)
''Tom Jones'' is a 1963 British comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'', starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film was produced and directed by Tony Richardson and the screenplay was adapted by playwright John Osborne. A period piece set in 18th-century Somerset and London, ''Tom Jones'' was a success both critically and at the box office. At the 36th Academy Awards, it was nominated for ten Oscars, winning four: Best Picture, Best Director for Richardson, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. It also won two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and three BAFTA Awards, including Best Film and Best British Film. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it as the 51st greatest British film of the 20th century. Plot The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Matter Of Choice
''A Matter of Choice'' is a 1963 British drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody and Ballard Berkeley. The screenplay concerns two youths who accidentally kill a man. It was one of a number of low budget British films Steel made in the 1960s while based in Rome. Cast * Anthony Steel - John Crighton * Jeanne Moody - Lisa Grant * Ballard Berkeley - Charles Grant * Malcolm Gerard - Mike * Michael Davis - Tony * Penny Morrell - Jackie * Lisa Peake - Jane * James Bree - Alfred * George Moon - Spike * Richard Bebb as Waiter * Garard Green as Shop Keeper * Frank Pettitt Frank Pettitt (16 October 1899 – 27 March 1964) was an English stage, film and television actor. He played Albert Finney's father in the film ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960). Filmography * '' Night and the City '' (1950) - Cab ... as Police Sergeant * Frank Shelley as Police Doctor References External links * 1963 films 1963 drama films Films dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amorous Prawn
''The Amorous Prawn'' or ''The Amorous Mr. Prawn'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker. The film was based on a 1959 farcical play by Kimmins. In the United States the film was retitled ''The Playgirl and the War Minister'' to exploit the Profumo affair. Premise General Fitzadam receives his final posting in the remote Scottish Highlands. When the General and his wife discover that they cannot afford the country cottage where they plan to retire, his wife decides to run their residence as a hotel for wealthy Americans using the services of soldiers and an expert poacher. Cast Production The original play had run for over 900 performances in the West End. Critical reception ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirates Of Blood River
''The Pirates of Blood River'' is a 1962 British adventure film directed by John Gilling and starring Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Plot While in a penal colony, Huguenot Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is captured by pirates led by Capt. LaRoche ( Christopher Lee) who force him to lead them back to his home village to retrieve a treasure supposedly hidden there. Cast * Kerwin Mathews ... Jonathon Standing * Glenn Corbett ... Henry * Christopher Lee ... Captain LaRoche * Peter Arne ... Hench, a pirate * Marla Landi ... Bess Standing * Desmond Llewelyn ... Tom Blackthorne * Oliver Reed ... Brocaire, a pirate * Andrew Keir ... Jason Standing * Michael Ripper ... Mack, a pirate * David Lodge ... Smith * Dennis Waterman ... Timothy Blackthorne * Jack Stewart ... Godfrey Mason * Marie Devereux as Maggie * Lorraine Clewes ... Martha Blackthorne * Jerold Wells Jerold Wells (8 August 1908 – 19 July 1999) was an English actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strongroom (film)
''Strongroom'' is a 1962 British crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon and Ann Lynn. The screenplay concerns a group of criminals who lock two bank employees in a safe during a robbery. Sewell called it "a terrific movie." The BFI called it Sewell's most wholly realised film." Plot Three small-time crooks, Griff, Len and Len's brother Alec, hold up a bank just after closing time on a Saturday preceding an Easter Monday bank holiday. The stuffy bank manager (Mr Spencer) and his secretary, Rose are locked in the bank's airtight vault, or "Strongroom" by the crooks when two cleaners unexpectedly arrive. The robbers escape but realise that they face possible murder convictions as the bank will be closed for days and the two employees will suffocate. The crooks improvise a plan to leave the keys to the vault in a telephone box and alert the police by an anonymous phone call. Alec has this task. He is seen driving off but is killed in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frightened City
''The Frightened City'' is a 1961 British neo-noir gangster film about extortion rackets and gang warfare in the West End of London. It stars Herbert Lom, John Gregson and a pre-Bond Sean Connery, who plays a burglar called Paddy Damion. He is lured into a protection racket by oily mobster Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks), in order to support his partner in crime Wally Smith (Kenneth Griffith), who is injured in a robbery. Although Connery's character has a girlfriend, he seduces the beautiful Anya (Yvonne Romain), the mistress of the seedy and sinister crime boss Zhernikov (Herbert Lom). John Gregson plays Detective Inspector Sayers who is dedicated to tackling organised crime. The Shadows had a hit single, no. 3 on the British charts in May 1961, with the main theme. It was subsequently covered by Peter Frampton in the 1996 collection ''Twang!: A Tribute to Hank Marvin & the Shadows''. Cast * Herbert Lom as Waldo Zhernikov * John Gregson as Detective Inspector Sayers * Sean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Mine Mink
''Make Mine Mink'' is a 1960 British comedy farce film directed by Robert Asher (director), Robert Asher and featuring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay concerns a group of eccentric misfits who go on a spree, stealing mink coats for charity in a Robin Hood-style gang. It was based on the play ''Breath of Spring'' by Peter Coke, and its sequels. Seyler and Elspeth Duxbury reprised their stage roles from the London production of ''Breath of Spring''. Plot A group of lodgers - Major Rayne, Nanette ("Nan") and "Pinkie" Pinkerton - staying at the Kensington apartment of Dame Beatrice, an elderly philanthropist, are bored with their humdrum, restricted lives. Lily, Dame Bea's beautiful, young housekeeper, overhears an argument between their neighbours, the Spanagers. When Mrs. Spanager rejects her husband's gift of a mink coat due to his lies about his business trip, he pretends to throw the coat off their balcony, but actually just hide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy And The Bridge
''The Boy and the Bridge'' is a 1959 British drama film produced and directed by Kevin McClory. It featured Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond, James Hayter (actor), James Hayter, Geoffrey Keen, and Arthur Lowe. The film was shot during the summer of 1958 and set around London's Tower Bridge from which the film takes its name. Synopsis Believing his widowed father, Pat Doyle (Liam Redmond) to have killed a man and that the police, having arrested him, will soon come to put him in a children's home, Tommy Doyle (Ian MacLaine), a little Cockney, cockney boy, runs away from his Bermondsey lodgings and seeks sanctuary within the confines of his dream castle, Tower Bridge. He makes his home in a room at the top of the north tower, coming and going without being seen and, bit by bit, furnishing it with all the ingenuity of a nine-year-old boy. Here, he makes one friend, a seagull he names Sammy. To the boy, the bridge is a living character with a personality of its own and the catwalks, stairc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidnapped (1960 Film)
''Kidnapped'' is a 1960 American adventure drama film. It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1886 novel ''Kidnapped''. It stars Peter Finch and James MacArthur, and was Disney's second production based on a novel by Stevenson, the first being ''Treasure Island''. It also marked Peter O'Toole's feature-film debut. Plot In 18th-century Scotland, young David Balfour ( James MacArthur) takes a letter of introduction from his recently deceased father to the House of Shaws, where he is greeted without much enthusiasm by his miserly uncle Ebenezer (John Laurie). David finds that Ebenezer is disliked by his neighbours and begins to ask questions about family affairs. Ebenezer tries to arrange a fatal accident for David. David accompanies Ebenezer to a meeting with a seafaring associate, Captain Hoseason (Bernard Lee). Hoseason lures David aboard his ship and shanghais him, at Ebenezer's instigation. At sea, David learns he is to be sold into indentured servitude. A fog comes u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night To Remember (1958 Film)
''A Night to Remember'' is a 1958 British docudrama film based on the eponymous 1955 book by Walter Lord. The film and book recount the final night of RMS ''Titanic'', which on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and then sank in the early morning hours of Monday, 15 April 1912. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More as the ship's Second Officer Charles Lightoller and features Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Tucker McGuire. It was filmed in the United Kingdom and tells the story of the sinking, portraying the main incidents and players in a documentary-style fashion with considerable attention to detail. The production team, supervised by producer William MacQuitty (who saw the original ship launched) used blueprints of the ship to create authentic sets, while Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and ex-Cunard Commodore Harry Grattidge worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
