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Merrill G. White
Merrill G. White (December 13, 1901 – March 21, 1959) was an American film editor and screenwriter. He also co-directed the 1957 film ''Ghost Diver'' and was an associate producer on ''Courage of Black Beauty'' (1957). During the 1930s he worked in Britain, including on several films made by Herbert Wilcox. For his editing of '' The Brave One'', White received a Best Film Editing nomination for the 29th Academy Awards. Selected filmography * ''The Broken Gate'' (1927) * ''Monte Carlo'' (1930) * '' Paramount on Parade'' (1930) * ''Playboy of Paris'' (1930) * ''The Vagabond King'' (1930) * ''The Smiling Lieutenant'' (1931) * ''The Doctor's Secret'' (1931) * ''That's a Good Girl'' (1933) * ''The Queen's Affair'' (1934) * ''Brewster's Millions'' (1935) * ''Peg of Old Drury'' (1935) * ''The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' (1936) * ''Talk of the Devil'' (1936) * '' The Frog'' (1937) * '' Sunset in Vienna'' (1937) * ''Nurse Edith Cavell'' (1939) * '' The Red House'' (1947) * ''The Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Of Old Drury
''Peg of Old Drury'' is a 1935 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke and Margaretta Scott. The film is a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play ''Masks and Faces'' by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor. It contains passages of eighteenth century Shakespearian performance, from ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Richard III'' and ''As You Like It''. The film was voted the third best British movie of 1936. Wilcox said the film "was enormously successful both here and in the States, artistically as well as at the box office." Plot The film is a very affectionate look at the life of Peg, and her relationship with David Garrick. It is a lavish costume drama and recreates a Hogarth-type atmosphere of contemporary London in the mid 18th century. It is laced with snippets of legendary history such as Lord Sandwich's invention of the sandwich. Peg is generally more popular with the men than with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fly (1958 Film)
''The Fly'' is a 1958 American science fiction horror film and the first installment in ''The Fly'' film series. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, and Herbert Marshall. The screenplay by James Clavell is based on the 1957 short story of the same name by George Langelaan. The film tells the story of a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque human–fly hybrid after a common house fly enters unseen into a molecular transporter with which he is experimenting, resulting in his atoms being combined with those of the insect. The film was released in CinemaScope with color by Deluxe by 20th Century Fox. It was followed by two black-and-white sequels, ''Return of the Fly'' (1959) and ''Curse of the Fly'' (1965). A remake directed by David Cronenberg was released in 1986. Plot In Montreal, Quebec, scientist André Delambre is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. Although his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circus Of Love
''Circus of Love'' (german: link=no, Rummelplatz der Liebe) is a 1954 drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Eva Bartok, Curd Jürgens and Bernhard Wicki.Hayes p.152 It was made as a co-production between West Germany and the United States. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Theo Zwierski. It was produced by King Brothers and released in West Germany by RKO Pictures. A separate English-language version ''Carnival Story'' was shot simultaneously. Cast * Eva Bartok as Lilli * Curd Jürgens as Toni * Bernhard Wicki as Franz * Robert Freitag as Richard * Willi Rose as Karl * Ady Berber as Groppo the Wildman * Helene Stanley as Lore * Jacob Möslacher as The Dwarf * Josef Schneider as The Sword-swallower * Amalie Lindinger as The Fat Lady * Ly Maria as The Snake Lady * Anni Trautner as The Bearded L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Fascination
''Strange Fascination'' is a 1952 American film noir directed by Hugo Haas, starring Cleo Moore, himself and Mona Barrie.. This was the first of six films pairing Haas and Moore. Plot The life of Paul Marvan (Haas), a world-famous concert pianist, is ruined after his marriage to beautiful femme fatale Margo (Moore). Margo is hardly a femme fatale. She's one of many blondes in Hugo Haas' films who is trying to do her best with men coming at her every second. She's actually sensitive, smart and compassionate. If you actually listen to the dialogue of this movie it's quite grown up, especially the final conversation between Margo and Marvan's patron, Diana Fowler. The level of honesty in this film is as powerful as it is unexpected. It has also been noted, especially by Czech scholar Milan Hain, that the plot also recalls Hugo Haas' brother Pavel (1899-1944) who died in the camps. Not only does the main character take on the career of a musician, but his brother's name as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Snow (1952 Film)
''Red Snow'' is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Boris Petroff and Harry S. Franklin and starring Guy Madison, Ray Mala, Mala, Carole Mathews, Gloria Saunders and Lee Frederick. The film's action takes place in Alaska. It was part of a string of anti-communist films made around this time.Gianos p.155 Plot Lieutenant Johnson, a U.S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a few secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear. Cast * Guy Madison as Lt. Phil Johnson * Ray Mala, Mala as Sgt. Koovuk (as Ray Mala) * Carole Mathews as Lt. Jane (as Carole Matthews) * Gloria Saunders as Alak * Lee Frederick as Major Bennett (as Robert Peyton) * John Bryant (actor), John Bryant as Enemy Pilot Alex * Richard Vath as Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady In The Iron Mask
''Lady in the Iron Mask'' is a 1952 American adventure film at directed by , produced by and starring as and |
The Girl On The Bridge (1951 Film)
''The Girl on the Bridge'' is a 1951 American film noir crime film cowritten and directed by Hugo Haas. It stars Haas, Beverly Michaels and Robert Dane. The film' sets were designed by the art director Vin Taylor. Plot A kindly elderly watchmaker, who lost his family in the holocaust, sees a beautiful young blonde on a bridge and prevents her from committing suicide. They marry and live happily until a man from her past attempts to blackmail her. Cast * Hugo Haas as David Toman * Beverly Michaels as Clara Barker * Robert Dane as Mario Venti * John Close as Harry Olson (as Johnny Close) * Anthony Jochim as Jonathan Cooper * Judy Clark Judy Clark (June 9, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film and television actress and singer. Clark adopted a brash and energetic singing style, similar to that of musical-comedy star Betty Hutton (with trade critics almost alw ... as Blonde Doll * Darr Smith as Husband * Maria Bibikov as Young Wife (as Maria Bibikoff) * Dick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy From Indiana
''The Boy from Indiana'' is a 1950 American sports drama film directed by John Rawlins and starring Lon McCallister, Billie Burke and George Cleveland.Davis p.52 The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucius O. Croxton. Cast * Lon McCallister as Lon Decker * Lois Butler as Betty Richards * Billie Burke as Zelda Bagley * George Cleveland as Robert Bruce Mac Dougall * Allen Church as Corbett * Jerry Ambler as Burke * Rol Laughner as Wilkinson * Victor Cox as Thorne * Robert Pollard as Dr. Huffins * William Peterson as Dr. Maynard * Herb Jacobs as Harry * Jeanne Patterson Jeanne may refer to: Places * Jeanne (crater), on Venus People * Jeanne (given name) * Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431) * Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374) * Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384) * Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Americ ... as Pretty Girl References Bibliography * Davis, Blair. ''The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema''. Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red House (1947 Film)
''The Red House'' is a 1947 American horror film directed by Delmer Daves, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Allene Roberts, and Julie London. Its plot follows a young woman raised by a brother and sister who are concealing a secret involving an abandoned farmhouse located deep in the woods on their sprawling property. It is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Agnew Chamberlain (1879-1966). The screenplay is by director Delmer Daves and Albert Maltz, uncredited. Plot Handicapped farmer Pete Morgan and his sister Ellen live on an isolated farm with their adopted child, Meg. They keep to themselves and are viewed as mysterious by the nearby town. Now a teenager, Meg convinces Pete to hire one of her 12th-grade high school classmates, Nath Storm, to come help with chores on the farm. On the first evening, when it is time for him to go home, Nath says he is going to take a shortcut through the old woods, a part of Pete's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurse Edith Cavell
''Nurse Edith Cavell'' is a 1939 American film directed by British director Herbert Wilcox about Edith Cavell. The film was nominated at the 1939 Oscars for Best Original Score. Plot The story follows the broadly true story of Edith Cavell who went to German-occupied Brussels after the onset of the First World War. Edith hides the young Frenchman Jean Rappard, but is suspected of this and her hospital is inspected by German troops at regular intervals. Jean is put on a canal barge and despite being searched at the border escapes successfully. Back in Brussels a firing squad executes a dozen escaped prisoners who were caught in the woods. Edith and albert go to try to find wounded on a battlefield near the woods and bring back four British men including Pt. Bungey of the Buffs. They are hidden in the hospital in a secret room accessed through a wardrobe in the basement boiler room. The Countess goes to the cobbler to organise their safe transportation. Meanwhile Edith also t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunset In Vienna
''Sunset in Vienna'' is a 1937 British musical drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Tullio Carminati, Lilli Palmer and John Garrick. It was made at Pinewood Studios.Wood p.97 A shortened version of the film was released in the United States in 1940 and this year and running time are sometimes listed. Premise An Italian officer marries an Austrian, but the outbreak of the First World War devastates their relationship. Cast * Tullio Carminati as Capt. Antonio 'Toni' Baretti * Lilli Palmer as Gelda Sponek * John Garrick as Lt. Adolphe Sponek * Geraldine Hislop as Wanda * Davina Craig as Deaf lady * Hubert Harben as Austrian general * Edgar Driver as Alfred * Alice O'Day as Maddalena * Eileen Munro as Superintendent of V.A.D. * Patrick Barr as Ludwig * Peter Bull Peter Cecil Bull, (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British character actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as '' The African Queen'', ''Tom Jones'', and ''Dr. Strangelove''. Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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