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Middle Course
''The Middle Course'' is a low budget 1961 British war film. Plot During World War II, a Canadian pilot crash lands in a small French village occupied by German forces. The villagers find a useful ally in the young flyer, but the Germans become anxious to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. Cast *Vincent Ball - Cliff *Lisa Daniely - Anna *Peter Illing - Gromik *Roland Bartrop - Paul *Marne Maitland - Renard *Robert Rietti - Jacques *André Maranne - Franz *André Mikhelson - Commandant *Jan Conrad - Herman *John Serret - Leverne * William Abney - Jaghorst *Yvonne André - Martine *Julian Sherrier - Villager *Donald Tandy - Sgt. Wilhelm *Jacques Cey - Pierre Critical reception ''TV Guide'' called the film "a predictable type of war drama that went out of fashion in the US ten years before this was made, but probably will always be resurrected in a nation that suffered so much at the time." References External links *''The Middle Course''at TCMDB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery Tully
Montgomery Tully (6 May 190410 October 1988) was an Irish film director and writer. Film career Born in Dublin, Tully studied at the University of London, and originally entered the film industry as a director of documentaries. Later, Tully worked on low-budget British films, and is mostly known for his crime dramas. One of his films, ''No Road Back'' (1957), featured Sean Connery in a very early role. His last film, ''The Terrornauts'', was made in 1967. He also worked in television, directing episodes of shows such as ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'', ''Kraft Mystery Theatre'', ''Man from Interpol'' and ''Fabian of the Yard''. Partial filmography * ''Waltz Time (1945 film), Waltz Time'' (1945) * ''Murder in Reverse?'' (1945) * ''Spring Song (1946 film), Spring Song'' (1946) * ''Mrs. Fitzherbert'' (1947) * ''Boys in Brown'' (1949) * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (a.k.a. ''A Tale of Five Women '') (1951) * ''Girdle of Gold'' (1952) * ''Small Town Story (film), Small Town Story'' (1953) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marne Maitland
James Marne Kumar Maitland (18 December 1914 – March 1992) was an Anglo-Indian character actor in films and television programmes. Biography Maitland was born in Calcutta, and educated at Bedales School before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1936. He served in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, commissioned as a second lieutenant on 20 November 1941. He made his film debut in ''Cairo Road'' (1950). His sharp, dark features and small stature saw him typecast as villains from the Middle and Far East, particularly for Hammer Film Productions. '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974) was his one appearance in a James Bond film. He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as '' The Buccaneers'', ''Danger Man'', '' The Avengers'' (as a sinister Eastern delegate in the 1967 episode " Death's Door"), ''The Saint'', ''The Champions'', '' Department S'', and '' Randall and Hopkirk'', and the Granada series '' The Jewel in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot At New Elstree Studios
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Drama Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Montgomery Tully
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Films
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with ''West Side Story'' winning 10 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1961 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1961 films from countries outside of North America. Events * May 13 – Legendary actor Gary Cooper dies at the age of 60 in Los Angeles from colon and prostate cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as ''Wings'', ''Meet John Doe'', '' Sergeant York'', ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' and '' High Noon'', Cooper was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won two Academy Awards for Best Actor. * June 28 – Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman sign a multi-picture deal with United Artists to produce a series of films based on the novels of Ian Fleming starting with either '' Dr. No'' or '' Diamonds Are Forever''. The series goes on to become the highest-grossing film series of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa (as TNT), and Asia-Pacific. History Origins In 1986, eight y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Tandy
Donald Eric Tandy (20 December 1918 – 9 May 2014) was an English actor who appeared in over a dozen films (usually in minor or uncredited roles) and several dozens of televisions shows during his career. He played potman Tom Clements in ''EastEnders'' from 1986 through 1988. Career Tandy started his career in 1950 in the low-budget film '' Chance of a Lifetime''. He appeared in many television programmes including ''Man from Interpol'', '' You Can't Win'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Saint'', ''Danger Man'', ''Sergeant Cork'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''The Troubleshooters'', and ''Colditz''. Starting in 1986, he appeared in ''EastEnders'' as the Queen Vipotman Tom Clements. His last appearance was in 1988. Partial filmology Film * '' Chance of a Lifetime'' (1950) * '' Hand in Hand'' (1960) * ''Crossroads to Crime'' (1960) * '' The Middle Course'' (1961) * '' Playback'' (1962) * ''Farewell Performance'' (1963) * ''Game for Three Losers'' (1965) * '' Twenty-One'' (1991) - Bobby's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Abney (actor)
William Edward Charles Wootton Abney (7 January 1921 – 9 August 1997) played Reverend Copley on ''Coronation Street'' in 1977, and Jim Lorimer in 1980. His other television credits include ''The Adventures of William Tell'', ''Crossroads'', ''Special Branch'', ''Play for Today'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', '' Robin's Nest'' and ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes''. The son of Henry Charles Wootton Abney, of the landed gentry family of Abney of Measham Hall, Derbyshire, by his wife, Janet Bentley Littlejohn, Abney was educated at Cranleigh School and the Central School of Speech and Drama. His stage work included West End roles in the original production of '' Carrington V.C.'' in 1953, and (as Giles Ralston) in Agatha Christie's ''The Mousetrap'' in 1956-1959. As a film actor, Abney appeared in ''Horrors of the Black Museum'' (1959), ''Never Take Sweets from a Stranger'' (1960), ''Two-Way Stretch'', (1960), '' Cone of Silence'' (1960), '' The City of the Dead'' (1960), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Mikhelson
André Mikhelson was a Russian actor, in mostly British films. He was born in Moscow, in 1903. Selected filmography * ''The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) - El Greco (uncredited) * ''Desperate Moment'' (1953) - Polizei Inspector * '' Star of My Night'' (1954) - Papa Condor * ''The Divided Heart'' (1954) - Prof. Miran * '' To Paris with Love'' (1955) - Head Porter (uncredited) * ''Break in the Circle'' (1955) - Russian thug answering Ludwigstrasse door * ''Little Red Monkey'' (1955) - East German Chief of Border Guards (uncredited) * ''I Am a Camera'' (1955) - Head Waiter (Troika) * '' The Intimate Stranger'' (1956) - Steve Vadney * ''The Iron Petticoat'' (1956) - Charash * ''Loser Takes All'' (1956) - Head Waiter (uncredited) * ''Anastasia'' (1956) - Older Man (uncredited) * Guilty ? (1956) - Santos * ''Dangerous Exile'' (1957) - Prison Doctor Perrot (uncredited) * ''The Diplomatic Corpse'' (1958) - Hamid * ''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness'' (1958) - Russian Commissar (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Maranne
André Maranne (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-English actor best known for playing roles in English-language films beginning in the mid-1950s. Life and career Born André Gaston Maillol in Toulouse, France, Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six of ''The Pink Panther'' films alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Before the Pink Panther, he appeared as a French officer in ''The War Lover'' (1962) and had a cameo role in the James Bond movie '' Thunderball'' (1965). He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Merton Park Studios' ''Scotland Yard'' (as a gendarme in 1956 episode "Wall of Death" and credited as André Maillol & the 1957 episode "Night Crossing" as Detective Nouvel credited as Andre Maranne), '' Jason King'' ("Wanna buy a television series?", 1971), ''Fawlty Towers'' (as André in the 1975 "Gourmet Night" episode), ''Lord Peter Wimsey'' ("Clouds of Witness", 1972), ''Yes Minister'' (as European Agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
