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Morland Graham
Morland Graham (8 August 1891 – 8 April 1949) was a British film actor. Graham had a career on the stage spanning over 35 years. He was known as a character actor, but also wrote a one act comedy, ''C'est la Guerre'', which was first performed in October 1926 and subsequently at the following year's Scottish Community Drama Festival. Graham became best known for his film roles in ''Jamaica Inn'' (1939), ''Old Bill and Son'' (1941) and ''Bonnie Prince Charlie Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That ...'' (1948), in which he starred after deputising for actor Will Fyffe. He appeared as the Biffer in '' Whisky Galore!'' which was released after his death. Graham married Elsie Cole (née Press) in 1926. He died on 8 April 1949 after taking an overdose of aspirin while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partick
Partick ( sco, Pairtick, Scottish Gaelic: ''Partaig'') is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park (across the River Kelvin), and to the north Broomhill, Glasgow, Broomhill, Hyndland, Dowanhill, Hillhead, areas which form part of the Glasgow#West End, West End of Glasgow. Partick was a Police burgh from 1852 until 1912 when it was incorporated into the city.Second City of The Empire: 1830s to 1914 from theglasgowstory.com. Retrieved 22 December 2011. Partick is the area of the city most connected with the Scottish Highlands, Highlands, and several Gaelic agencies, such as the Gaelic Books Council (Scottish Gaelic: ''Comhairle nan Leabhraichean'') are located in the area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of The Moment (1935 Film)
''Man of the Moment'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Laura La Plante and Margaret Lockwood. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The film's art direction was by Peter Proud. This was the first film shown on BBC Television on 12 September 1938. Plot Office worker Mary Briany (Laura La Plante) finds out she is being demoted by the boss she secretly loves in order to make room for his girlfriend. She tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river. Tony Woodward (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is driving by and rescues her, much to her annoyance. He takes her back to his mansion, but he and his butler Godfrey (Donald Calthrop) have great difficulty getting her to behave. Meanwhile, Tony is to be married the next day to childish heiress Vera Barton (Margaret Lockwood). She reveals to Tony's friend Lord Rufus Paul (Claude Hulbert) that she plans to change Tony's lifestyle completely - no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This England (film)
''This England'' is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring John Clements, Constance Cummings and Emlyn Williams. The film follows the small English village of Cleveley and its historic resistance against tyrannical invaders recounted by one of the inhabitants to a visiting American journalist. Production The film was made for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. Its title comes from a speech by John of Gaunt in the play ''Richard II'' by William Shakespeare. Partial cast * John Clements - John Rookeby *Constance Cummings - Ann *Emlyn Williams - Appleyard * Frank Pettingell - Gage *Roland Culver - Steward *Morland Graham - Doctor *Leslie French - Johnny * Martin Walker - Seigneur *Ronald Ward - Lord Clavely *Hugh Wakefield - Vicar *Esmond Knight - Vicar's son *Amy Veness - Jenny *Roddy McDowall - Hugo *Dennis Wyndham Dennis Wyndham (15 January 1887 – 19 August 1973) was a South African born stage and film actor. Long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost Train (1941 Film)
''The Ghost Train'' is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley. Plot Tommy Gander (Arthur Askey), a vaudeville comedian, pulls the communication cord on a GWR express train, bringing it to a stop so he can retrieve his hat. Returning to the train, he escapes an angry conductor by ducking into a compartment occupied by attractive blonde Jackie Winthrop ( Carole Lynne), with whom Gander flirts. Another passenger, Teddy (Richard Murdoch), has his eye on Jackie as well, but her companion Richard Winthrop (Peter Murray-Hill) ejects both of them from the compartment. When the train stops at Fal Vale Junction, Cornwall, these four get off to change trains, as do Herbert (Stuart Latham) and his fiancée Edna (Betty Jardine), spinster Miss Bourne (Kathleen Harrison), and the tippling Dr. Sterling (Morland Graham). However, the stationmaster, Saul Hodgkin ( Herbert Lomas) tells them the last Truro-boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Radio
''Freedom Radio'' (a.k.a. ''A Voice in the Night'') is a 1941 British propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley and Derek Farr. It is set in Nazi Germany during the Second World War and concerns an underground German resistance group who run a radio station broadcasting against the totalitarian Third Reich. It was shot at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Sheriff. Plot The story begins in Vienna just before the beginning of the Second World War. Dr Roder is physician to some important members of the Nazi party but prefers being at his luxurious house with his wife, Irena, and servants. Irena's brother Otto returns from Italy and they throw a party with many interesting and high-ranking attendees. During the party the Gestapo call, requiring his immediate attendance. At his club, the main servitor, Sebastian, announces the club is closing and they will not see him again. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Train To Munich
''Night Train to Munich'' is a 1940 British-American thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1939 short story ''Report on a Fugitive'' by Gordon Wellesley, the film is about an inventor and his daughter who are kidnapped by the Gestapo after the Nazis march into Prague in the prelude to the Second World War. A British secret service agent follows them, disguised as a senior German army officer pretending to woo the daughter over to the Nazi cause. Plot As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch, a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plating, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna, is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to a concentration camp, where she is interrogated by Nazis who are pursuing her father. Anna refuses to cooperate. Soon she is befriended by a fellow prisoner named Karl Marsen, who says he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Hornleigh On Holiday
''Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday'' is a 1939 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim and Linden Travers. It is the sequel to the 1938 film ''Inspector Hornleigh'', and both films are based on the novels by Leo Grex. A third and final film, '' Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It'', followed in 1941. Plot summary During a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh (Harker) and Sergeant Bingham (Sim) grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime. Cast * Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh * Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham * Linden Travers as Miss Angela Meadows * Wally Patch as Police Sergeant * Edward Chapman as Captain Edwin Fraser * Philip Leaver as Bradfield * Kynaston Reeves as Dr. Manners * John Turnbull as Chief Constable * Wyndham Goldie Frank Wyndham Goldie (5 July 1897 – 26 September 1957) was an English actor. World War I During World War I, Goldie was a lieutenant in the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q Planes
''Q Planes'' (known as ''Clouds Over Europe'' in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their fifty-year friendship and were in the process of staging a theatrical version of ''Othello'', with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made. ''Q Planes'' was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer. The film was directed by an American, Tim Whelan (''Sidewalks of London'', and later in 1940, co-director of '' The Thief of Bagdad''), who had lived in Britain since 1932, working for Korda at Denham Studios. Plot In September 1938, advanced British aircraft prototypes carrying experimental and secret equipment are vanishing with their crews on test flights. No one can fathom why, not even spymaster Major Hammond (Ralph Richardson) or his sister Kay (Valerie Hobson), a newsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I, Claudius (film)
''I, Claudius'' is an unfinished 1937 film adaptation of the novels ''I, Claudius'' (1934) and ''Claudius the God'' (1935) by Robert Graves. Produced by Alexander Korda, the film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, with Charles Laughton in the title role. The production was dogged by adverse circumstances, culminating in a car accident involving co-star Merle Oberon that caused filming to be ended before completion. Footage from the production was incorporated into a 1965 documentary on the making of the film ''The Epic That Never Was''. Production ''I, Claudius'' was a production of Alexander Korda, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Charles Laughton (as Claudius), Emlyn Williams (as Caligula), Flora Robson (as Livia), and Merle Oberon (as Messalina). Also in the cast were Allan Aynesworth (as Senator Asiaticus) and John Clements (as Valens). Other speaking parts included Claudius's servant Narcissus, Claudius' doctor Xenophon, Senator Sentius, and soldiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Exchange (film)
''Fair Exchange'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Patric Knowles, Raymond Lovell and Cecil Humphreys. It was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers.Wood p.90 Cast * Patric Knowles as Tony Meredith * Roscoe Ates as Elmer Goodge * Isla Bevan as Elsie Randall * Raymond Lovell as Sir Reeves Willoughby * Cecil Humphreys as Matthew Randall * Louis Goodrich as James Meredith * Morland Graham Morland Graham (8 August 1891 – 8 April 1949) was a British film actor. Graham had a career on the stage spanning over 35 years. He was known as a character actor, but also wrote a one act comedy, ''C'est la Guerre'', which was first perf ... as Dr. Franz Schmidt References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where's Sally?
''Where's Sally?'' is a 1936 British comedy film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Chili Bouchier, Gene Gerrard and Claude Hulbert. The film was a quota quickie production and is now believed to be lost. Article Archive Plot A womanising playboy becomes tired of his philandering lifestyle and asks his current girlfriend to marry him. At the wedding reception, his best man makes a speech treating the entire gathering to the finer details of the bridegroom's chequered romantic history. The bride becomes upset, and her new husband is furious with his best friend for being so indiscreet. He whisks her straight out of the wedding hall and they set off on honeymoon. Matters are set for a series of farcical complications and misunderstandings as they start to meet a motley selection of od ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve Good Men
''Twelve Good Men'' is a 1936 British crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Henry Kendall, Nancy O'Neil and Joyce Kennedy. It was made at Teddington Studios by Warner Brothers as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.292 It is based on the 1928 detective novel ''The Murders in Praed Street'' by John Rhode, with the principal series character of the book Doctor Priestley eliminated for the film. Cast * Henry Kendall as Charles Drew * Nancy O'Neil as Ann * Joyce Kennedy as Lady Thora * Percy Parsons as Hopwood * Morland Graham as Victor Day * Bernard Miles as Inspector Pine * Philip Ray as Higgs * Frederick Burtwell as Fortheringay * Roddy Hughes Rhodri Henry Hughes (19 June 1891 – 22 February 1970) was a Welsh theatre, film and television actor, who appeared in over 80 films between 1932 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''Mr. Bill the Conqueror'' (1932) * ''Reunion'' (1932) * '' Say ... * Sam Springson * George Hughes * Madge White * Grace Lane * Ralph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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