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Marylebone Studios
Marylebone Studios was a British film studio in London. Established in the late 1930s, it had two stages in a converted church hall near the Edgware Road. The studio worked with Hammer Films on films, including the adaptations of the Dick Barton radio show. Production on additional films in the series ceased after the star was killed in a crash. Henry Halsted was the studio's owner and production supervisor. The studio eventually moved into advertisements and documentaries. ''The Bespoke Overcoat'' (1956), which was filmed at the studio, won an Academy Award at the 29th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Nicolas Roeg began his film career at Marylebone Studios as a tea boy before moving up to clapper-loader. Filmography *'' Walking on Air'' (1946) * ''Death in High Heels'' (1947) * ''Othello'' (1948). *'' River Patrol'' (1948) *'' There Is No Escape'' (1948) * '' Dick Barton: Special Agent'' (1948) *''Dick Barton Strikes Back'' (1949) *''Dick Barton at Bay'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Studio
A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own privately owned studio facility or facilities that are used to make films, which is handled by the production company. Most firms in the entertainment industry have never owned their own studios, but have rented space from other companies. There are also independently owned studio facilities, who have never produced a motion picture of their own because they are not entertainment companies or motion picture companies; they are companies who sell only studio space. Beginnings In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera. He distributed these movies at vaudeville theaters, penny arcades, wax museums, and fairgrounds. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking On Air (1946 Film)
Walking on Air is a British musical film featuring jazz, songs, dance, tap dance, and variety comedy routines including several performances by African American performers. Starring performers include Johnny Worthy, Bertie Jarrett, Sonny Thomas, Ray Ellington, The Skating Avalons, singer Jill Allen singing "Honeysuckle Rose", Maudie Edwards, Myrette Moreven, Miki Hood, Jasmine Dee, Loderick Caton, Coleridge Goode, and Freddie Crump on drums. The Huntley Film Archives have extended clips from the film. Aveling Ginever directed. Ginever, Johnny Worth and Val Guest wrote the screenplay. An obituary for Peter Noble describes the film as having been virtually unseen. It debuted Susan Shaw, then known as Patsy Sloots. The film was made at Marylebone Studios in London. The film was described as having plenty of dancing but a thin storyline about an aspiring ballerina who is working in a variety show at a night club. History In 1942 Jarrett was on BBC radio with Maurice Winnick's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam & Eve Mews
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Run (1970 Film)
On the Run may refer to: * "On the run", a phrase often used to describe a fugitive, a person fleeing custody Literature * On the Run (novel), ''On the Run'' (novel), by Nina Bawden * On the Run (novel series), by Gordon Korman * ''On the Run'', a novel in the List of Sweet Valley High books#Super Thrillers, Sweet Valley High series * ''On the Run'', an autobiography by Philip Agee * ''On the Run'', the tenth book in the Left Behind: The Kids series * ''On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City'', a non-fiction work by sociologist Alice Goffman Film and television * On the Run (1958 film), ''On the Run'' (1958 film), a British film starring William Hartnell * On the Run (1982 film), ''On the Run'' (1982 film), a U.S. drama featuring Ray Meagher * On the Run (1988 film), ''On the Run'' (1988 film), a Hong Kong film starring Yuen Biao * On the Run (1999 film), ''On the Run'' (1999 film), a U.S. crime comedy starring Michael Imperioli * On the Run (2003 film), ''On the Run'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunch Hour
''Lunch Hour'' is a 1962 British romantic drama film directed by James Hill and starring Shirley Anne Field, Robert Stephens and Kay Walsh. Based on a one-act play by John Mortimer, it is about a man and a woman who attempt to have an affair during their lunch hour, but are continually interrupted. Plot A recently graduated art school designer joins a wallpaper manufacturing company and catches the eye of a married middle manager. They begin a workplace affair during their lunchtime breaks but their attempts to find privacy are continually thwarted. The man eventually locates a small hotel where he books a room for just one hour, but then feels the need to invent a hugely-complicated tale to tell the hotel manageress about a troubled marriage and a wife travelling down from Scarborough for a heart-to-heart. The still-suspicious hotel manageress continually interrupts the couple and, as the man slowly tells the story to his would-be lover, she starts to believe the whole fantasy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Shadows (1961 Film)
Out of the Shadows may refer to: Films * ''Out of the Shadows'' (unfinished film), an unfinished 1931 film * ''Out of the Shadows'' (2012 film), a documentary film *'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'', a 2016 film Music * ''Out of the Shadows'' (The Shadows album), a 1962 album by the British group The Shadows * ''Out of the Shadows'' (Dave Grusin album), a 1982 album by Dave Grusin * ''Out of the Shadows'' (Billy Joe Royal album), a 1990 album by Billy Joe Royal * "Out of the Shadows", a song on Iron Maiden's 2006 album '' A Matter of Life and Death'' * ''Out of the Shadows'' (Escape the Fate album), a 2023 album by Escape the Fate Video games * ''Out of the Shadows'' (video game), a 1984 video game *'' PK: Out of the Shadows'', a 2002 video game * ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' (video game), a 2013 video game Other uses *''Out of the Shadows'', a video by the British group Hawkwind *'' Alien: Out of the Shadows'', a 2014 book by Tim Lebbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bespoke Overcoat
''The Bespoke Overcoat'' is a 1956 British black and white short film directed by Jack Clayton, based on a 1953 play of the same name by Wolf Mankowitz. The story is an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story ''The Overcoat'' with the action moved from Russia to the East End of London. In this version the protagonists are poor Jews working in the clothing trade, played by Alfie Bass and David Kossoff. It won an Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Plot The film titles run as a funeral takes place. A coffin is placed in the grave. We then see an overcoat being thrown on the coffin, before the grave is infilled. Morrie a Jewish tailor, speaks to himself in the mirror. He is then joined by the dead Fender. They debate the art of tailoring. Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. He complains to his boss, Mr Ranting that it is cold, and he wishes he had a good coat. Ranting ridicules him and says h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tread Softly (1952 Film)
''Tread Softly'' is a 1952 British crime film with musical overtones, directed by David MacDonald and starring Frances Day, Patricia Dainton and John Bentley. A chorus girl investigates a series of mysterious happenings at a derelict theatre. It was made at Marylebone Studios and at the Granville Theatre in Fulham. While made as a second feature it also had aspirations to top the bill in some cinemas.Chibnall & McFarlane p.127 Set in a theatre it allows an odd combination of light musical numbers with a murder crime story. It includes several elaborate dance routines. Cast * Frances Day as Madeleine Peters * Patricia Dainton as Tangye Ward * John Bentley as Keith Gilbert * John Laurie as Angus McDonald * Olaf Olsen as Philip Defoe * Nora Nicholson as Isobel Mayne * Harry Locke as Nutty Potts * Betty Baskcomb as Olivia Winter * Robert Urquhart as Clifford Brett * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Inspector Hinton * Michael Ward as Alexander Mayne * Nelly Arno * Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Barton At Bay
''Dick Barton at Bay'' is a 1950 British spy film about special agent Dick Barton. It was the second of three films that Hammer Film Productions made about the British agent, although it was the last released, following '' Dick Barton: Special Agent'' and ''Dick Barton Strikes Back''. Plot Captain Richard 'Dick' Barton and his wartime college 'Snowey' White, are quickly assigned to recover a kidnapped scientist and de-activate a death ray before national catastrophe triggers World War III with Britain at the heart of Hell. Cast Main cast * Don Stannard as Dick Barton * Tamara Desni as Anna * George Ford as Snowey White * Meinhart Maur as Serge Volkoff * Joyce Linden as Mary Mitchell * Percy Walsh as Professor Mitchell * Campbell Singer as Sir George Cavendish * John Arnatt as Jackson * Richard George as Inspector Slade * Beatrice Kane as Betsy Horrock Supporting cast * Patrick Macnee as Phillips (Credited as Patrick McNee) * George Crawford as Boris * Paddy Ryan as Fingers * Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Barton Strikes Back
''Dick Barton Strikes Back'' is a 1949 British spy film about special agent Dick Barton. It was the third of three films that Hammer Film Productions made about the agent, although it was the second released. Plot Captain Richard 'Dick' Barton and his associate; Snowey White, uncover a spyring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate Great Britain, if not, the world, using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction... Title The film's title during production was ''Dick Barton and the Silent Plague''. Cast *Don Stannard as Dick Barton *Bruce Walker as Snowey White * Sebastian Cabot as Fouracada *James Raglan as Lord Armadale *Jean Lodge as Tina *Morris Sweden as Robert Creston *John Harvey as Major Henderson *Humphrey Kent as Colonel Gardener *Sidney Vivian as Inspector Burke *Tony Morelli as Nicholas *George Crawford as Alex *Larry Taylor as Nick (as Laurie Taylor) Critical reception ''Mystery File'' wrote "This is a little kid’s idea of a Spy Movie, with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
