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John Seabourne
John Seabourne was a British film editor active between the 1930s and 1950s. During the early 1930s he edited British Gaumont's newsreels.Phillips p.20 He is sometimes known as John Seabourne Sr. to distinguish him from his son. Filmography * '' Her First Affaire'' (1932) * '' The Mystery of the Mary Celeste'' (1935) * '' Lend Me Your Husband'' (1935) * ''The Man Without a Face'' (1935) * ''Sweeney Todd'' (1936) * ''The Crimes of Stephen Hawke'' (1936) * ''The House of Silence'' (1937) * ''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' (1937) * '' Double Exposures'' (1937) * '' Under a Cloud'' (1937) * '' Riding High'' (1937) * '' John Halifax'' (1938) * ''Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror'' (1938) * '' Discoveries'' (1939) * '' Contraband'' (1940) * ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' (1943) * ''A Canterbury Tale'' (1944) * '' 'I Know Where I'm Going!''' (1945) * '' The History of Mr. Polly'' (1949) * ''The Rocking Horse Winner'' (1949) * ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950) * ''Night Without Stars' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colchester
Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colchester therefore claims to be Britain's first city. It has been an important military base since the Roman era, with Colchester Garrison currently housing the 16th Air Assault Brigade. Situated on the River Colne, Colchester is northeast of London. The city is connected to London by the A12 road and the Great Eastern Main Line railway. Colchester is less than from London Stansted Airport and from the port of Harwich. Attractions in and around the city include Colchester United Football Club, Colchester Zoo, and several art galleries. Colchester Castle was constructed in the eleventh century on earlier Roman foundations; it now contains a museum. The main campus of the University of Essex is located just outside the city. Local governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halifax (film)
''John Halifax'' aka ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' is a 1938 British historical drama film directed by George King and starring John Warwick, Nancy Burne and Roddy McDowall. It is based on the 1856 novel ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' by Dinah Craik. It was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.295 The film's sets were designed by Philip Bawcombe. Cast * John Warwick as John Halifax * Nancy Burne as Ursula March * Ralph Michael as Phineas Fletcher * D.J. Williams as Abel Fletcher * Brian Buchel as Lord Luxmore * Billy Bray as Tully * Elsie Wagstaff as Jael * W.E. Holloway as Mr. Jessop * Hugh Bickett as Doctor Grainger * Roddy McDowall Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 4 October 1998) was a British actor, photographer and film director. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1 ... as Boy References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Devils (1953 Film)
''Sea Devils'' is a 1953 colour British–American historical adventure film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, and Maxwell Reed. The story is based on Victor Hugo's novel '' Toilers of the Sea'' which was the working title of the film. The scenes at sea were shot around the Channel Islands, and much of the rest of the film was shot on location in those islands as well. Plot The year is 1800, and Britain and France have been at war since 1798, in what later was to be known as the War of the Second Coalition. Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman, Drouchette, to the French coast on his ship the ''Sea Devil''. Drouchette tells him that she intends to organise the rescue of her brother from a French prison. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns that Drouchette is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of Great Britain. However, in reality she is a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distant Trumpet
''Distant Trumpet'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Derek Bond and Jean Patterson. A Harley Street doctor answers the call to perform medical missionary work in Africa, taking over from his indisposed brother. Cast * Derek Bond as David Anthony * Jean Patterson as Valerie Maitland * Derek Elphinstone as Richard Anthony * Anne Brooke as Beryl Jeffries * Grace Gavin as Mrs. Phillips * Jean Webster Brough as Mrs. Waterhouse * Grace Denbeigh-Russell as Mrs Hallet * Constance Fraser as Mrs Nettley * Alban Blakelock as Mr Harris * John Howlett as Bill Hepple * Keith Pyott Keith Pyott ( Blackheath, London, 9 March 1902 - 6 April 1968) was a British actor. He transferred from stage to screen and was a regular face in drama in the early days of television, appearing in '' Educated Evans'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Out o ... as Sir Rudolph Gettins * Peter Fontaine as Peter * Gwynne Whitby as Lady Marriot-Stokes * Anne Hunter as 'Simply Dressed Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Without Stars
''Night Without Stars'' is a 1951 British black-and-white dramatic thriller film, starring David Farrar, Nadia Gray and Maurice Teynac. The screenplay was written by Winston Graham based upon his eponymous 1950 novel. The film was directed by Anthony Pelissier and produced by Hugh Stewart. It was shot at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. Plot The film begins in the spring of 1947 on the south coast of France on the French Riviera. English lawyer Giles Gordon ( David Farrar) has been partially blinded during service in World War II, and fears his eyesight is worsening. After he stumbles in a shoe shop, the shop assistant Alix Delaisse (Nadia Gray) recognises him later in the day and joins him at a cafe. She explains she is the widow of a French Resistance fighter hanged in Nice. Restaurateur Pierre Chava (Gérard Landry) approaches Giles and warns him off with the claim that Alix is already promised to him. He tells Giles that Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wooden Horse
''The Wooden Horse'' is a 1950 British Second World War war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse which was also used to conceal men within. ''The Wooden Horse'' was shot in a low-key style, with a limited budget and a cast including many amateur actors. Plot The somewhat fictionalised version of the true story is set in Stalag Luft III — the same POW camp where the real events depicted in the film '' The Great Escape'' took place, albeit from a different compound – and involved Williams, Michael Codner and Oliver Philpot, all inmates of the camp. In the book a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rocking Horse Winner (film)
''The Rocking Horse Winner'' is a 1949 fantasy film about a young boy who can pick winners in horse races with complete accuracy. It is an adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence short story ''The Rocking-Horse Winner'' and starred Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies and Ronald Squire. Producer of the film John Mills also acted in the film. It was shot at Denham Studios with sets designed by the art director Carmen Dillon. Plot The upper middle-class Grahame family are beset by money troubles, because of the lavish tastes of Hester who spends far more than their income. Her elder brother Oscar bails her out several times but warns that he will not do so in future. Meanwhile her son Paul strikes up a friendship with Bassett, the new handyman and a former jockey. Paul is delighted when he receives a rocking horse for Christmas and shortly afterwards a whip. Concerns about the family's finances and his mother's unhappiness and lack of luck begin to affect Paul who is convinced that the hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Of Mr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'I Know Where I'm Going!'
''I Know Where I'm Going!'' is a 1945 romance film by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown and Finlay Currie. Plot Joan Webster is a 25-year-old middle-class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a wealthy, much older industrialist, on the (fictitious) Isle of Kiloran. When bad weather postpones the final leg of her journey (the boat trip to Kiloran), she is forced to wait it out on the Isle of Mull, among a community of people whose values are quite different from hers. There she meets Torquil MacNeil, a naval officer trying to go home to Kiloran while on shore leave. They are sheltered for the night in the nearby home of Torquil's friend, Catriona Potts. The next day, on their way to catch a bus to Tobermory to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Canterbury Tale
''A Canterbury Tale'' is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played two small roles. For the post-war American release, Raymond Massey narrated and Kim Hunter was added to the film. The film was made in black and white, and was the first of two collaborations between Powell and Pressburger and cinematographer Erwin Hillier. Much of the film's visual style is a mixture of British realism and Hillier's German Expressionist style that is harnessed through a neo-romantic sense of the English landscape. The concept that 'the past always haunts the present' in the English landscape was already part of English literary culture, e.g. in works by Rudyard Kipling such as ''Puck of Pook's Hill'', and would become a notable trope for British novelists and film-makers from the 1960s. ''A Canterbury Tale'' takes its title from ''The Canterbury Tales'' of Geof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' is a 1943 British romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story itself is original. Some regard the film as the greatest British movie ever made and it is renowned for its sophistication and directorial brilliance as well as for its script, the performances of its large cast and for its pioneering Technicolor cinematography. Among its distinguished company of actors, particular praise has been reserved for Livesey, Walbrook, and Kerr. Plot Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) is a senior commander in the Home Guard during the Second World War. Before a training exercise, he is "captured" in a Turkish bath by soldiers led by Lieutenant "Spud" Wilson, who has struck pre-emptively. He ignores Candy's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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