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John Croydon
John Croydon (3 November 1907 – February 1994) was a British film producer and Unit production manager, production manager. He was employed at Ealing Studios for a number of years during the Michael Balcon era. He then moved to Highbury Studios in the late 1940s to head up production of second features for the Rank Organisation, and later turned to independent film, independent production once Highbury had been closed.Chibnall & McFarane p.49 Selected filmography * ''Champagne Charlie (1944 film), Champagne Charlie'' (1944) * ''Dead of Night'' (1945) * ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film), Nicholas Nickleby'' (1947) * ''Colonel Bogey (film), Colonel Bogey'' (1948) * ''Love in Waiting'' (1948) * ''A Piece of Cake (film), A Piece of Cake'' (1948) * ''Penny and the Pownall Case'' (1948) * ''To the Public Danger'' (1948) * ''Badger's Green (1949 film), Badger's Green'' (1949) * ''Stop Press Girl'' (1949) * ''White Corridors'' (1951) * ''One Wild Oat'' (1951) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring ceremonial counties. Three rivers provide most of the county's boundaries; the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Lea to the east and the River Colne, Hertfordshire, Colne to the west. A line of hills forms the northern boundary with Hertfordshire. Middlesex county's name derives from its origin as the Middle Saxons, Middle Saxon Province of the Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex, with the county of Middlesex subsequently formed from part of that territory in either the ninth or tenth century, and remaining an administrative unit until 1965. The county is the List of counties of England by area in 1831, second smallest, after Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Piece Of Cake (film)
''A Piece of Cake'' is a 1948 British fantasy comedy film directed by John Irwin and starring and co-written by the husband and wife team of Cyril Fletcher and Betty Astell as well as Laurence Naismith and Jon Pertwee. It was made at Highbury Studios as a second feature for release by the Rank Organisation. Plot Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but obtaining them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble. Cast * Cyril Fletcher as Cyril Clarke * Betty Astell as Betty Clarke * Laurence Naismith as Merlin Mound * Jon Pertwee as Mr Short * Sam Costa as Les Millins * Miki Hood as Mrs Short * Tamara Lees as Dinner Guest * Audrey White as Dinner Guest * Philip Saville as Dinner Guest * Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Fiddle * Johnnie Schofield as Wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A High Wind In Jamaica (film)
''A High Wind in Jamaica'' is a 1965 DeLuxe Color film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick for the 20th Century-Fox studio. It stars Anthony Quinn and James Coburn as the pirates who capture five children. Other cast members include Deborah Baxter, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Lila Kedrova, Kenneth J. Warren, and Gert Frobe. One of the child actors is the author Martin Amis. Plot A hurricane hits Jamaica in 1870. The Thorntons (Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean), parents of five children, feel it is time to send them to England for a more civilized upbringing and education. During the voyage, pirates board the ship and the children end up accidentally leaving on the pirate ship. The pirate captain, Chavez (Anthony Quinn) and first mate Zac (James Coburn) do not wish to risk a kidnapping charge and decide to sail to Tampico and leave the children in the safe keeping of Rosa (Lila Kedrova), a brothel madam with a good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Man Into Space
''First Man into Space'' (working title: ''Satellite of Blood'') is a 1959 independently made British-American black-and-white science fiction- horror film. It was produced by John Croydon, Charles F. Vetter, and Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Films and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Robert Day, it stars Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, and Robert Ayres. The film is based on a story by Wyott Ordung, while the plot was developed from a script that had been pitched to and rejected by AIP. Plot U. S. Navy Commander Charles "Chuck" Prescott (Marshall Thompson) is unsure if his brother, Lt. Dan Prescott (Edwards), is the right choice for piloting the high altitude, rocket-powered Y-13. Air Force Space Command's Captain Ben Richards ( Robert Ayres) insists that Dan is their best pilot, even though when piloting the Y-12 in the ionosphere, he began experiencing difficulties. Dan ignored flight regulations upon landing by seeing his girlfrien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corridors Of Blood
''Corridors of Blood'' (aka ''Doctor from Seven Dials'')Tom Weaver, ''The Horror Hits of Richard Gordon'', Bear Manor Media 2011 p 80-95 is a 1958 British-American period drama film directed by Robert Day and starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. The original music score was composed by Buxton Orr. It was released in England in 1958. The film was marketed with the tagline "Tops in Terror!" in the US where MGM only released it in 1962 as a double feature with an Italian import called ''Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory''. Plot An 1840s British surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben (Francis de Wolff) and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunted Strangler
''The Haunted Strangler'' (also known as ''Grip of the Strangler'' and originally titled ''The Judas Hole'') is a 1958 British horror film directed by Robert Day. It was adapted from "Stranglehold", a story which screenwriter Jan Read had written specially for Boris Karloff, and was shot back to back with producer Richard Gordon's ''Fiend Without a Face'', with both later being released as a double feature by MGM.Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011, p. 410-412 Plot In Victorian era-London, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, the brutal killer of five women. He is tried and executed for these crimes. As he is being buried, an unknown person slips a knife into his coffin. Twenty years later, James Rankin (Boris Karloff), a novelist and social reformer, launches an investigation to prove that Styles was innocent. His search for clues leads him to the sleazy Judas Hole music hall, where the Strangler picked hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarzan And The Lost Safari
''Tarzan and the Lost Safari'' is a 1957 action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan and Betta St. John. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, it was the first Tarzan film released in color, Eastman Color. It was also MGM's first ''Tarzan'' film since 1942 and filmed in Nairobi, British East Africa. The character of Jane does not appear in this motion picture. Plot An airplane crashes in the jungle of the Kenya Colony of British East Africa in 1956, stranding passengers Gamage Dean ( Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod ( Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization. Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delavine Affair
''The Delavine Affair'' is a 1955 British second feature crime film directed by Douglas Peirce and starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson. It was based on the 1952 novel ''Winter Wears a Shroud'' by Robert Chapman. Plot Journalist Rex Banner, with the aid of his wife Maxine, attempts to solve a jewel robbery, but the criminals try to frame Rex for their murder of a witness. Cast * Peter Reynolds as Rex Banner * Honor Blackman as Maxine Banner * Gordon Jackson as Florian * Valerie Vernon as Lola * Michael Balfour as Sammy * Peter Neil as Inspector Johnson * Peter Swanwick as Meyerling * Laurie Main as Summit * Katie Johnson as Mrs. Bissett * Mark Daly as Mr. Bissett * Anna Turner as Mrs Halloran * Mai Bacon as Fanny * Hal Osmond as old man * Vernon Kelso as Macgregor * Christie Humphrey as maid Production The film was produced at Walton Studios and on location in West London, including Kensington and West Brompton. Sets were designed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Malaya (film)
''Operation Malaya'' is a 1953 British documentary about the actions of British troops during the Malayan Emergency. It was also known as ''Terror in the Jungle''. Plot The film portrays the actions of British and Commonwealth troops against Communist insurgents in Malaya, focusing around the tracking down of a group of communists who killed a rubber planter. Scenes included: * Sir Gerald Templer thanking troops *a patrol of armoured cars ambushed by terrorists *Singapore *history of the communist insurrection *a journalist traveling through Kuala Lumpur *a military patrol finding a communist camp *a look at a squatting community which is removed to a resettlement area (known as " new villages") *the role of the Malayan Navy and Air Force. Production David MacDonald had previously made a documentary movie about World War II, ''Desert Victory''. He approached the Colonial Office for money to help make a similar movie about the Malayan Emergency but was refused by Sir Gerald Tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Wild Oat
''One Wild Oat'' is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Stanley Holloway, Robertson Hare and Sam Costa with a notable appearance by a pre-stardom Audrey Hepburn as an extra. Plot Barrister Humphrey Proudfoot attempts to discourage his Cherrie's infatuation for Fred, a philanderer, by revealing Fred's past. The plan backfires when Alfred Gilbey, the daughter's would-be father-in-law, threatens to reveal the barrister's own shady background. Cast * Robertson Hare as Humphrey Proudfoot * Stanley Holloway as Alfred Gilbey * Sam Costa as Mr. Pepys * Andrew Crawford as Fred Gilbey * Vera Pearce as Mrs. Gilbey * June Sylvaine as Cherrie Proudfoot * Robert Moreton as Throstle * Constance Lorne as Mrs. Proudfoot * Gwen Cherrell as Audrey Cuttle #1 * Irene Handl as Emily Pepys (Audrey Cuttle #2) * Ingeborg von Kusserow as Gloria Samson (as Ingeborg Wells) * Charles Groves as Charles * Joan Rice as Annie (maid) * Audrey Hepburn as the Hotel receptioni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Corridors
''White Corridors'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Googie Withers, Godfrey Tearle, James Donald and Petula Clark. It is based on a novel by Helen Ashton. The film is set in a hospital shortly after the establishment of the National Health Service. Premise The day-to-day life of the staff and patients at a city hospital. Cast * Googie Withers as Dr. Sophie Dean * James Donald as Dr. Neil Marriner * Godfrey Tearle as Mr. Groom, Sr. * Petula Clark as Joan Shepherd * Jean Anderson as Sister Gater * Timothy Bateson as Dr. Cook * Fabia Drake as Miss Farmer * Henry Edwards (actor), Henry Edwards as Phillip Brewster * Gerard Heinz as Dr. Macuzek * Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Briggs * Barry Jones (actor), Barry Jones as Dr. Shoesmith * Avice Landone as Sister Jenkins * Bernard Lee as Burgess * Moira Lister as Dolly Clark * Dandy Nichols as Char * Basil Radford as Retired Civil Servant * Bruce Seton as Policeman * Mary Hinton (actress), Mary Hinton as Matron * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Press Girl
''Stop Press Girl'' is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film. The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection. Plot Roy Fairfax, junior partner for timepiece manufacturers Fairfax & Sons, arrives in the quiet village of Slipfold to visit his fiancée Jennfier Peters and ask her uncle for permission to marry. On his way through town in his new motorcar, Roy causes a commotion and spooks the horse of village dentist Arthur Peters. Arriving at her home, Roy encourages Jennifer to join him for a drive and gives her a new watch in lieu of an engagement ring, however Jennifer explains she never wears a watch as they always seem to stop. After only fifteen minutes Roy's car stops working as does the watch he gave to Jennifer and later his own wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
