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Moment Of Indiscretion
''Moment of Indiscretion'' is a low budget 1958 British crime film. Plot Janet Miller is accused of the murder of a stabbed woman. Janet's handkerchief and spare house key have been discovered at the crime scene, and she is cagey about her whereabouts on the night in question. It turns out she was a witness to the murder, but has her own reasons for keeping quiet. Her lawyer husband John leaps to her defence and attempts to track down the real killer. (Two discrepancies occur leading to the identification of the real culprit: firstly, the witness, played by Lana Morris, positively identifies him, and tells the police she'll never forget his face; yet, whilst witnessing the murder, she only ever sees his back. Just as, in fact, her character is depicted, (above), witnessing it on the film's cinema poster. Also, the film was made and set in 1958; yet the pawnshop ticket, which provides the final evidence of an event which was supposed to have occurred just a few months before, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Varnel
Max Varnel (21 March 1925 – 15 January 1996) was a French-born Australian film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia. Biography Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of the film director Marcel Varnel. He began his career as an assistant director of ''The Magic Box'' (1951) and continued in this rol for ''The Card'' (1952), ''Devil Girl from Mars'' (1954), and ''The Cockleshell Heroes'' (1955), among others. His directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including ''Moment of Indiscretion'', '' A Woman Possessed'' (both 1958), ''Top Floor Girl'', ''Web of Suspicion'', ''The Child and the Killer'', and ''Crash Drive'' (all 1959). Varnel's television credits include ''The Vise'', '' The Cheaters'', '' Softly Softly'', and ''The Troubleshooters'' in the UK, and '' Skippy'', ''Glenview High'', ''The Young Doctors'', and ''Neighbours'' in Australia, where he emigrated in the late 1960s. Varnel died of a heart attack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Crime Films
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United F.C., Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crime Films
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1958 Films
The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals '' South Pacific'' and '' Gigi'', the latter of which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1958 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'' is an early example of the French New Wave; it is also notable for the improvised soundtrack by Miles Davis. ''Le Beau Serge'' is credited as the first French New Wave feature. * February 16 – ''In the Money'' by William Beaudine is released. It will be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946. * February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies. * The second installment of Sergei Eisenstein's '' Ivan the Terrible'' is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dorning
Robert Dorning (13 May 1913 – 21 February 1989) was a musician, dance band vocalist, ballet dancer and stage, film and television actor. He is known to have performed in at least 77 television and film productions between 1940 and 1988. Origins Robert Dorning was born at 108 Croppers Hill in St Helens, Lancashire, England, on 13 May 1913. His father was Robert John Dorning who worked in a local pit as a coal miner haulier and his mother was Mary Elizabeth Dorning, formerly Howard. He was educated at Cowley Grammar School in St Helens, where he also learnt to play violin and saxophone. After leaving school, Dorning studied drama and dance in Liverpool with the intention of becoming a ballet dancer. During the 1930s he had a brief career as a musical comedian in theatre, before choosing acting as his profession. Film roles His first known film role was in the crime drama, ''They Came By Night'' (1940). However, his acting career was interrupted by World War II and Dorning serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totti Truman Taylor
Totti Truman Taylor, born Dorothy Leah Truman (7 September 1915 – 5 March 1981), was a British actress. Her mother’s 2nd husband’s surname was Taylor, and this is where her stage name came from. In 1953, she played Aunt Sally in the BBC television series '' Worzel Gummidge Turns Detective''. She was born in the Mapperley Park area of Nottingham and died at Denville Hall, Northwood, in Middlesex. She also played various roles in ''Hancock's Half Hour''. Selected filmography Passenger to Tokyo, Scotland Yard series (1954) Series 1 Ep 10 ...Headmistress * ''Eight O'Clock Walk'' (1954) ..... Miss Ribden-White * ''The Crowded Day'' (1954) ..... Ernest's Wife * ''The French, They Are a Funny Race'' (1955) ..... Miss Fyfyth, the nurse * '' Not So Dusty'' (1956) ..... Charlotte Duncan * ''Town on Trial'' (1957) * ''Rx Murder'' (1958) * ''Undercover Girl'' (1958) * ''Moment of Indiscretion'' (1958) * ''There Was a Crooked Man'' (1960) ..... Woman in a taxi * ''Compelled'' (1960) ..... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lynn
Elizabeth Ann Lynn (7 November 1933 – 30 August 2020) was a British actress, especially prominent during the British New Wave of the 1960s, appearing in many films that represented what is known as kitchen sink realism. Lynn's career spanned 40 years and included roles in many British TV series, including ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1956), ''The Vise'' (1959–1960), ''Danger Man'' (1965), ''The Saint'', ''Gideon's Way'' (1965), ''Public Eye'' (1966), ''The Champions'' (episode: ''The Body Snatchers'') (1969), ''Family at War'' (1972), ''Special Branch'' (1973), ''Just Good Friends'', ''Minder'' and ''Only Fools And Horses''. Film Lynn's films included ''Flame in the Streets'' (1961); ''Strongroom'' (1961); '' A Shot in the Dark'' (1964); '' Four in the Morning'' (1965); ''I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967); ''Baby Love'' (1968); and ''Screamtime'' (1983), alongside Dora Bryan and Robin Bailey. Personal life Lynn was a grand niece of the comedy actor Ralph Lynn. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Van Eyssen
John Van Eyssen (born Matthew John Du Toit Van Eyssen, 19 March 1922 – 13 November 1995) was a South African born actor, agent and film production executive. He moved to Britain following the Second World War, attending the Central School of Speech and Drama. In 1951 and in 1954 he played the role of Lucifer in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays, first revived in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain. Van Eyssen appeared in films from 1950 as well as on stage (playing Cassio in Orson Welles' 1951 production of ''Othello'', for example) but achieved his greatest fame as an actor when he portrayed Jonathan Harker in the Hammer Film Productions version of ''Dracula'' (released as ''Horror of Dracula'' in the US) in 1958. He left acting in 1961 to become head of the Grade Organisation literary agency.'Van Eyssen named MD Columbia (British)', ''Kinematograph Weekly'' vol. 625 no. 3223 19 July 1969 His subsequent clients were Franco Zeffirelli, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Mille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Witty
John Witty (1915–1990) was a British film and television actor. Witty's distinguished voice appeared extensively on various series and documentary short films. He presented the TV series ''Mail Call'' (1955–56) with his wife Genine Graham. He was the TV Announcer for the 1961 film ''The Frightened City'', the Computer Voice for the 1969 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Seeds of Death'' and the Announcer Voice for the 1979 television version of ''Dick Barton ''Dick Barton – Special Agent'' is a radio thriller serial that was broadcast in the BBC Light Programme between 7 October 1946 and 30 March 1951. Produced and directed by Raymond Raikes, Neil Tuson, and Charles Lefaux, it was aired in 15-mi ...''. Filmography References External links * 1915 births 1990 deaths Male actors from Bristol English male film actors English male television actors 20th-century English male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shaw
Denis Shaw (7 February 1921 – 28 February 1971) was a British character actor specialising in slimy villains. Born in Dulwich as Douglas Findlay Shaw, he was a rotund man, with dark, wavy hair and slanty eyes. This appearance meant he would often be found troubling countless heroes of the 1950s and 1960s on film and television, most memorably as the German guard Priem in ''The Colditz Story'' (1955). Alternatively, he could also be found propping up the tavern bar in a number of British horror films. These include ''Jack the Ripper'' (1959), ''The Mummy'' (1959) and ''The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1961). He was cast in the leading role of '' The Great Van Robbery'' (1959) as the judo-throwing Interpol detective Caesar Smith. In the film he travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome, and Paris, tracking the robbers of a Royal Mint van. Shaw's many television credits include, ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', '' The Avengers'', ''Danger Man'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Prisoner'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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