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Justine Lord
Justine Lord (born Jennifer Schooling; 8 March 1937) is an English actress, active on television throughout the 1960s. She began her acting career in repertory theatre, and in the 1960s made guest appearances in “Live Now Pay Later” (1962)”,'' The Avengers'' (" Propellant 23", 1962), '' The Saint'', ("The Bunco Artists" and "The Saint Plays with Fire", 1963; "The Saint Steps In" and "The Imprudent Politician", 1964; "The Checkered Flag", 1965; The Fiction-Makers, 1968), ''The Prisoner'' ("The Girl Who Was Death", 1968) and ''Man in a Suitcase'', as well as playing regular roles in ''Crossroads'', ''Compact'', ''The Troubleshooters ''The Troubleshooters'' (titled ''Mogul'' for the first series) is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. It recounted events in an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. Th ...'' and '' The Doctors''. Lord married James Ridler in 1971. She retired from acting in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, chartered in 1158. Its location on a coaching route and the opening of a railway station in 1858 were key to its development and the shift from an agrarian village to an urban town. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, Bromley significantly increased in population and was Municipal Borough of Bromley, incorporated as a municipal borough in 1903 and became part of the London Borough of Bromley in 1965. Bromley today forms a major retail and commercial centre. It is identified in the London Plan as one of the 13 metropolitan centres of Greater London. History Bromley is first recorded in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 862 as ''Bromleag'' and means 'woodland clearing where Cytisus scoparius, broom grows'. It shares this Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamahine
''Tamahine'' is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price and John Fraser. It is a film about a Polynesian woman who believes she can change the culture of Hallow School, a British boys' boarding school. The story was filmed at Wellington College in county Berkshire. The film had its World Premiere on 18 July 1963 at the Empire, Leicester Square in London's West End.The Times, 18 July 1963, Page 2 Plot When her father dies, orphan teenager Tamahine is sent from her South Pacific island home to live with Charles Poole, her father's cousin and the headmaster of Hallow, a prestigious all-male school in England. Richard, Charles' son and school student, falls in love with her, but she considers him tabu because of the closeness of their family relationship. Another suitor is the art master, Clove, after he breaks up with Charles' daughter Diana. Meanwhile, Tamahine has trouble adjusting to the puzzling social mores of her new home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Eyre (1963 TV Series)
''Jane Eyre'' is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1963. It is an adaptation of the 1847 novel of the same title by Charlotte Brontë. Episodes 2 and 3 are missing, believed lost. Cast * Ann Bell as Jane Eyre * Richard Leech as Mr. Rochester * Elsie Arnold as Mrs. Fairfax * Stephanie Bidmead as Leah * Nan Marriott-Watson as Grace Poole * Elaine Pratt as Adèle * Hira Talfrey as Mrs. Rochester * Patricia Cree as Mary Ingram * Brenda Dean as Mary Rivers * William Devlin as Mr. Briggs * Sonia Dresdel as Mrs. Reed * Jane Eccles as Lady Ingram * Alan Edwards as Lord Ingram * Betty Hardy as Hannah * Anthony Jacobs as Mr. Mason * Arthur Lawrence as Colonel Dent * Justine Lord as Blanche Ingram * William Russell as St. John Rivers * Penny Whittam as Diana Rivers * Elizabeth Benzimra as Alice * Michael Bilton as Landlord * Rachel Clay as Jane Eyre as a child * Mark Dignam as Mr. Brocklehurst * Arthur Hewlett as Clergyman * Marie Kean as Miss Mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be The Malpas Mystery while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see ''German crimis''), there was no attem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Play Of The Week
''Play of the Week'' is a 90-minute British television anthology series produced by a variety of companies including Granada Television, Associated-Rediffusion, ATV and Anglia Television. Synopsis From 1955 to 1967 approximately 500 episodes aired on ITV. The first production was ''Ten Minute Alibi'', produced by Associated-Rediffusion on 14 May 1956 while the earliest to survive is ''There Was a Young Lady'', transmitted on 23 July 1956 and was telerecorded (film recorded). The first production not to be transmitted live was Henrik Ibsen's ''The Wild Duck'' which was also film recorded. The first to be pre-recorded on videotape was ''Mary Broome'', a Granada production broadcast on 3 September 1958. Subsequently, only one play was transmitted live, Associated-Rediffusion's ''Search Party'' on 26 July 1960. The recording of ''The Liberty Man'', a Granada production broadcast on 1 October 1958, contains the original advertisements during the first commercial break. ''The Viole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sunday-Night Play
''BBC Sunday-Night Play'' is the anthology drama series which replaced ''Sunday Night Theatre'' in 1960. It was broadcast on what was then BBC Television (now BBC One). The series often included versions of modern theatrical successes, but original work appeared in the slot too. David Mercer's ''A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (1962) was later adapted as the feature film ''Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (1966), while ''Madhouse on Castle Street'' (1963) starred the then little known Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp .... The series ended in 1963. Out of a run of 138 episodes, only 15 are believed to survive. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlesworth (TV Series)
''Charlesworth'' is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC in 1959.''Radio Times, Volume 143'' p.19 A police procedural, it starred Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth, with Tony Church as Detective Sergeant Spence. It followed on from the previous year's '' Charlesworth at Large ''. Other actors who appeared include Lana Morris, Barbara Shelley, George Coulouris, Arnold Ridley, Terence Alexander, William Mervyn, Wally Patch, Naomi Chance, Leslie Perrins, Edward Evans, James Raglan, Leonard Sachs, Ina De La Haye, Austin Trevor, Sheila Burrell, Jack Hedley, Frank Pettingell, Robert Raglan, Olive Sloane, Josephine Tewson, Mary Kerridge, Patrick Troughton, John Forbes-Robertson, Willoughby Goddard, Elizabeth Shepherd, Norman Mitchell, Sam Kydd and Justine Lord. References Bibliography * ''Radio Times ''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Ten Per Cent
''Mister Ten Per Cent'' is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Charlie Drake, Derek Nimmo and Wanda Ventham. It was shot at Elstree Studios and on location in London. It was the last in a series of four films produced by ABPC featuring Drake. Plot Percy Pointer, a construction worker and amateur dramatist, writes a drama 'Oh My Lord' and hopes to have it professionally produced. A dishonest producer agrees to back the play, hoping that it will be a disaster, so that he can claim insurance on its failure. To Percy's distress, the first audience see the play as a slapstick comedy, not the drama he intended it to be. The play is a hit and audiences love it. But Percy is upset by the turn of events and attempts to ruin the production. It then emerges that in his ignorance of showbusiness contracts, he has signed away 10% of any revenue to so many people that he actually owes 110% of the money. His attempts to sabotage the production lead to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadlier Than The Male
''Deadlier Than the Male'' is a 1967 British adventure crime mystery film. It is one of the many take-offs of James Bond produced during the 1960s, but is based on an already established detective fiction hero, Bulldog Drummond. Richard Johnson (director Terence Young's original preference to play James Bond) stars as Drummond, updated to a suave Korean War veteran, now an insurance investigator, trailing a pair of sexy assassins ( Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina) who kill for sport and profit. Drummond's American nephew, Robert Drummond (Steve Carlson, then a Universal Pictures contract star), becomes involved in the intrigue when he comes to visit. The title is a reference to the 1911 Rudyard Kipling poem " The Female of the Species", which includes the line, "The female of the species must be deadlier than the male", and also refers to Sapper's earlier Drummond book, ''The Female of the Species''. The working title of the film was ''The Female of the Species''. "Deadlier Than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scales Of Justice
''The Scales of Justice'' was a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced between 1962 and 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine episodes were made in black and white, the last four in colour. The final episode, ''Payment in Kind'', was Merton Park's last production. They were based on actual criminal cases and each film was introduced by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, which is situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. In the opening narration she is described as having '...in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice'. The first six episodes' opening scenes were narrated by Michael Hordern. The end version of the theme music for the series (by Johnny Douglas) was performed by The Tornados. It was re-recorded and released as the 'B' side of their single " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor In Clover
''Doctor in Clover'' is a British comedy film released in 1966, starring Leslie Phillips. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Richard Gordon. It is the sixth of the seven films in the ''Doctor'' series. The film was released in the US as ''Carnaby, MD''. British singer Kiki Dee sang the film's title track. Synopsis The film is based at the (fictitious) St Swithin's Hospital, with Leslie Phillips as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke, an accident-prone doctor and cad, more interested in the nurses than the patients. Grimsdyke is sacked from his job as a medical officer at a men's prison, for his misbehaviour with the Governor's daughter, so he enrolls in a refresher course with his old medical tutor Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), who is determined to make him a successful surgeon. Grimsdyke discovers that a plum senior medical post is shortly to become vacant, and starts scheming to be considered, instead of his cousin, who has already been unofficially offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act Of Murder (film)
''Act of Murder'' is a 1964 British crime drama film, directed by Alan Bridges. One of the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' series, it was Bridges' first film as director. Premise An actor, Tim Ford, tries to persuade an ex-actress, Anne Longman, to return to the stage. Her husband, Ralph, suspects that Ford's motives are more than just professional.Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, ''The British 'B' Film'', Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp. 284–86. Cast * Anthony Bate as Ralph Longman * John Carson as Tim Ford * Justine Lord as Anne Longman * Duncan Lewis as Will Peterson * Dandy Nichols as Maud Peterson * Richard Burrell as John Quick Critical reception Film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane said that on its release in the United Kingdom, the film "received pretty well uniformly positive reviews", especially for the directorial debut of Alan Bridges. The reviewer "T.M." in the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' declared the film an "uncommonly intelligent little thrill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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