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John Bryan (art Director)
Eric John Bryan Pratt (12 August 1911 – 10 June 1969), known professionally as John Bryan, was a British art director and film producer. John Bryan was born in Kensington, London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film ''Great Expectations'' in 1948. He was nominated twice more, for '' Caesar and Cleopatra'' in 1947 and for ''Becket'' in 1965. Bryan also won a BAFTA for ''Becket''. In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He died from cancer at a hospital in Thames Ditton, Surrey, on 10 June 1969. Filmography Art director * '' Colonel Blood'' (1934) * ''Murder by Rope'' (1936) * '' Hearts of Humanity'' (1936) * ''The Captain's Table'' (1936) * ''Men of Yesterday'' (1936) * '' Things to Come'' (1936, assistant) * ''The Song of the Road'' (1937) * ''The Last Curtain'' (1937) * ''Talking Feet'' (1937) * ''Stepping Toes'' (1938) * ''Pygmalion'' (1938) * ''Inspector Hornleigh'' (1939) * ''On the Night of the Fire'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensington, London
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensington Gardens, containing the Albert Memorial, the Serpentine Gallery and Speke's monument. South Kensington and Gloucester Road are home to Imperial College London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Albert Hall, Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Science Museum. The area is also home to many embassies and consulates. Name The manor of ''Chenesitone'' is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, which in the Anglo-Saxon language means "Chenesi's ton" (homestead/settlement). One early spelling is ''Kesyngton'', as written in 1396. History The manor of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, was one of several hundred granted by King William the Conqueror (1066-1089) to Geoffrey de Montbray (or Mowbray), Bishop of Coutanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Of The Road
''The Song of the Road'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Bransby Williams, Ernest Butcher and Muriel George. It was made at Shepperton Studios Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. It is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group. During its early existence, the studio was branded as Sound City (not to be confused w .... It was made as a supporting feature. Like Baxter's earlier ''The Song of the Plough'' (1933) the film examines the effect of modern technology on traditional working practices in the countryside.Chibnall p.123 Synopsis After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way. Cast References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millions Like Us
''Millions Like Us'' is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It starred Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Eric Portman and Megs Jenkins. It was co-written and co-directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. According to the British Film Institute database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy", along with '' Two Thousand Women'' (1944) and '' Waterloo Road'' (1945). Plot The opening credits show huge crowds of workers going into factories. The narrator begins the film with nostalgic views of crowded beaches and remembering what it was like to eat an orange (unavailable in the war). Celia Crowson and her family go on holiday to the south coast of England in the summer of 1939, staying in the guest house they visit every year. Soon afterwards, the Second World War breaks out and Celia's father joins what was to become the Home Guard. Her more confident sister Phyllis joins the Auxiliary Territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Octopus (film)
''Dear Octopus'' is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding and Celia Johnson. It is based on a 1938 play ''Dear Octopus'' written by Dodie Smith. It was also released as ''The Randolph Family''. Plot Well-to-do couple Dora and Charles Randolph are celebrating their golden wedding, and three generations meet at the Randolph country home. As the relatives gather, each reveals his or her personal quirks and shortcomings. Caught in the middle is family secretary Penny Fenton (Margaret Lockwood), who has the unenviable task of sorting and smoothing out the family's deep-set hostilities and jealousies so that a good time can be had by all. Cast * Margaret Lockwood – Penny Randolph * Michael Wilding – Nicholas Randolph * Celia Johnson – Cynthia * Roland Culver – Felix Martin * Helen Haye – Dora Randolph * Athene Seyler – Aunt Belle * Jean Cadell – Vicar's wife * Basil Radford – Kenneth * Frederick Leister †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Arthur Was A Gentleman
''King Arthur Was a Gentleman'' is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey. It was produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer for Gainsborough Pictures. Synopsis Set during World War II, the plot involves the undersized Arthur joining the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan (Evelyn Dall), who is in the same unit as him. Here, his idealistic notions about King Arthur prompt his messmates to trick him into believing that a sword they have dug up is the fabled Excalibur. Armed with this talisman Arthur strides forth to deal with the Wehrmacht. Cast * Arthur Askey as Arthur King * Max Bacon as Maxie * Al Burnett as Slim * Evelyn Dall as Susan Ashley * Vera Frances as Vera * Peter Graves as Lance * Brefni O'Rorke as Colonel Duncannon * Anne Shelton as Gwen Duncannon * Ronald Shiner as Sergeant * Jack Train as Jack * Victor Feldman Victor Stanley Feldman (7 April 1934 – 12 May 1987) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Moonlight
''Dangerous Moonlight'' (US: ''Suicide Squadron'') is a 1941 British film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anton Walbrook. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton. The film is best known for its score written by Richard Addinsell, orchestrated by Roy Douglas, which includes the ''Warsaw Concerto''. ''Dangerous Moonlights love-story plot, told mainly in flashbacks, revolves around the fictional composer of the ''Warsaw Concerto'', a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who meets an American war correspondent in Warsaw, and later returns from America to join the RAF in England to continue to fight against the Germans and their occupation of Poland.Jahiel, Edwin"Dangerous Moonlight (UK, 1941)."''Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel''. Retrieved: 7 May 2012. Plot During the German invasion of Poland, Polish airman and piano virtuoso Stefan Radecki (Anton Walbrook) meets American reporter Carole Peters (Sally Gray). He volunteers to fly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Barbara (film)
''Major Barbara'' is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was Film producer, produced and film director, directed by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean. It was adapted for the screen by Marjorie Deans and Anatole de Grunwald, based on the 1905 stage play ''Major Barbara'' by George Bernard Shaw. It was both a critical and a financial success. Plot In this social satire, Barbara Undershaft (Hiller), an idealistic major in the Salvation Army, is deeply troubled by the fact that her father, Andrew Undershaft (Robert Morley), is a wealthy weapons manufacturer. Meanwhile, Andrew is looking for an heir for his industrial empire, in particular a foundling like himself. Cast *Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara Undershaft *Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins *Robert Morley as Andrew Undershaft *Robert Newton as Bill Walker *Sybil Thorndike as The General *Emlyn Williams as Snobby Price *Miles Malleson as Morrison, the butler *Stanley Holloway as a Policeman * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spider (1940 Film)
The Spider is an American pulp-magazine hero of the 1930s and 1940s. The character was created by editor Harry Steeger and written by a variety of authors for 118 monthly issues of ''The Spider'' from 1933 to 1943. A 119th Spider novel manuscript, ''Slaughter Incorporated'', had been completed but was not published until decades later. A complete list of all 119 Spider pulps in the original series is available online at fan sites. ''The Spider'' sold well during the 1930s, and copies are valued by modern pulp magazine collectors. Hulse has stated "Today, hero-pulp fans value ''The Spider'' more than any single-character magazine except for ''The Shadow'' and ''Doc Savage''."Ed Hulse, ''The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps''. Murania Press, 2009, (pp. 78-82). Creation and publication history The Spider was created in 1933 by Harry Steeger at Popular Publications as direct competition to Street and Smith Publications' vigilante hero, the Shadow. Steeger said he got t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Life (1939 Film)
''Stolen Life'' is a 1939 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Michael Redgrave, Elisabeth Bergner and Wilfrid Lawson. Production The film was made at Pinewood Studios with location filming in Cornwall, the South of France and the Dolomites in Kingdom of Italy under Fascism (1922-1943), Italy. It was adapted from a novel by Karel J. Benes and was remade in 1946 as ''A Stolen Life (1946 film), A Stolen Life''.Goble p.966 The film score was composed by William Walton. The film's sets were by the art director John Bryan (art director), John Bryan, while the costumes were designed by Joe Strassner. The film was re-released in 1942 during the Second World War. It premiered in France in 1946 and in 1951 in West Germany. Czinner and Bergner had been forced to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover in 1933 and their films were banned there. Synopsis After meeting and apparently falling in love with Martina, a young woman he meets in Switzerland, mountaineer Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Night Of The Fire
''On the Night of the Fire'', released in the United States as ''The Fugitive'', is a 1939 British thriller film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard. The film is based on the novel of the same name by F. L. Green. It was shot on location in Newcastle upon Tyne and was released shortly after the outbreak of World War II. It is regarded as an early example of British film noir, with the kind of subject matter and filming style which fell completely out of favour during the war years – when British studios felt that cinemagoers would want either light entertainment and escapism or topical patriotic propaganda pieces – and would not be taken up again until the later 1940s. Film critic David Quinlan describes the film as "grim but gripping". Andrew Spicer, in his book ''European Film Noir'', writes: "A riveting psychological study. With its sustained doom-laden atmosphere, Krampf’s expressive cinematography, its adroit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Hornleigh (film)
''Inspector Hornleigh'' is a 1938 British detective film directed by Eugene Forde, starring Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim, with Miki Hood, Wally Patch, Steven Geray and Edward Underdown. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England. The screenplay was co-written by Bryan Edgar Wallace. Plot Inspector Hornleigh of Scotland Yard stumbles upon the theft of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget secrets, a crime which he ties to a murder he is investigating. Cast * Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh * Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham * Miki Hood as Ann Gordon * Wally Patch as Sam Holt * Steven Geray as Michael Kavanos * Edward Underdown as Peter Dench * Hugh Williams as Bill Gordon * Gibb McLaughlin as Alfred Cooper * Ronald Adam as Wittens * Eliot Makeham as Alexander Parkinson, leather worker * Peter Gawthorne as the Chancellor of the Exchequer (uncredited) * Charles Carson as Chief Superintendent (uncredited) * Vi Kaley as Landlady (uncredited) * Julian Vedey as Cafe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pygmalion (1938 Film)
''Pygmalion'' is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations; Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard) and Best Actress (Hiller). The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical ''My Fair Lady'', which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name. Adaptation The Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal wished to create a set of films based on Shaw's works, beginning with ''Pygmalion'', and went to see Shaw in person to gain permission to do so. Shaw was reluctant to allow a film adaptation of ''Pygmalion'' owing to the low quality of previous film adaptations of his works, but Pascal managed to convince him (on the condition Shaw retained constant personal supervision of the adaptation) and later went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
