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Michael Carreras
Michael Henry Carreras (21 December 1927 – 19 April 1994) was a British film producer and director. He was known for his association with Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Films, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years. As producer, he worked on ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), ''Dracula (1958 film), Dracula'' (1958) and ''The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1960) and ''She (1965 film), She'' (1965) among over sixty other films. He also wrote a smaller number of screenplays. He later turned to directing, with ''Savage Guns (1961 film), The Savage Guns / Tierra brutal'' (1961), ''Maniac (1963 film), Maniac'' (1963), ''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'' (1964), ''Prehistoric Women (1967 film), Slave Girls'' (1967), ''The Lost Continent (1968 film), The Lost Continent'' (1968) and ''Shatter (film), Shatter'' (1975) among others. In 1971, he took over directing ''Blood from the Mummy's Tomb'' after directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatter (film)
''Shatter'' is a 1974 action film starring Stuart Whitman, Lung Ti, Lily Li, Anton Diffring and Peter Cushing. It was the second and final international co-production between Hammer Film Productions of England and Shaw Brothers Studio of Hong Kong. The film was shot entirely on location in Hong Kong. Plot outline Shatter (Stuart Whitman) is a hitman contracted to kill a dictator in a certain African country. He completes his assignment and returns to Hong Kong to collect his fee, only to learn that he himself is the next target of the assassination because he was intended to be used as a scapegoat by his client for a larger political agenda. Being pursued by various government agencies and gangsters, Shatter seeks help from a master martial artist Tai Pah (Lung Ti) and promises to share half of his fee in exchange for Tai Pah's protection and assistance in recovering his fee. Cast *Stuart Whitman - Shatter *Peter Cushing - Rattwood * Anton Diffring - Hans Leber * Lung Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder By Proxy
''Murder by Proxy'' is a 1954 British film noir crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Dane Clark, Belinda Lee and Betty Ann Davies. The screenplay concerns a man who is offered money to marry a woman. It was produced by Hammer Films and shot at the company's Bray Studios in Berkshire with sets designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It released in the United States by Lippert Pictures as ''Blackout''. Plot summary Drunk and down-and-out Casey Morrow (Clark) in London is approached by a young and beautiful heiress, Phyllis Brunner (Lee), offering him much money if he will marry her. He accepts, but then wakes up the next morning in some other woman's apartment with blood on his coat from the murder of Brunner's father. Now he must unravel the mystery to clear his name, which leads him into a twisted labyrinth of encounters with various suspicious characters who seem to make his situation worse the more he learns. Cast * Dane Clark as Casey Morrow * Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Break In The Circle
''Break in the Circle'' is a 1955 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring and Guy Middleton. Doreen Carwithen composed the score for the film. Plot An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West. Cast * Forrest Tucker as Captain Skip Morgan * Eva Bartok as Lisa * Marius Goring as Baron Keller * Guy Middleton as Major Hobart * Eric Pohlmann as Emile * Arnold Marlé as Professor Pal Kudnic * Fred Johnson as Chief Agent Farquarson * David King-Wood as Colonel Patchway * Reginald Beckwith as Dusty * Guido Lorraine as Franz * André Mikhelson as Russian thug * Stanley Zevic as Russian thug * Marne Maitland as The phony Kudnic * Arthur Lovegrove Arthur Lovegrove (15 July 1913 – 7 November 1981) was a British actor and playwright. His comedy ''Goodnight Mrs Puffin'' starring Irene Handl, ran for 3 years in London's West End, from 1961. Filmography * ''Noos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mask Of Dust
''Mask of Dust'' (later named 'Race for Life' ) is a 1954 British motor racing drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Richard Conte, Mari Aldon and Peter Illing. The film was based on the 1953 novel ''The Last Race'' by Jon Manchip White. It was produced by Hammer Films at the company's Bray Studios as a programmer.Chibnall & McFarlane p.82 The film's sets were designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures as ''Race for Life'' Synopsis A freestyle racing driver must choose between his love for racing, and his wife. His friend's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival. Cast *Richard Conte as Peter Wells *Mari Aldon as Patricia Wells *Peter Illing as Tony Bellario *Alec Mango as Guido Rosetti * James Copeland as Johnny Jackson *George Coulouris as 'Pic' Dallapiccola * Meredith Edwards as Laurence Gibson *Edwin Richfield as Reporter in Lounge *Richard Marn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Men Of Sherwood Forest
''The Men of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1954 British adventure film directed by Val Guest and starring Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore and David King-Wood. The film follows the exploits of Robin Hood and his followers. Doreen Carwithen wrote the score for the film. Produced by Hammer Films it was shot at the company's Bray Studios with sets designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. Exteriors were shot at Bodiam Castle in Sussex. Plot In 1194, on his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is taken prisoner in Germany. Disguised as a troubadour, Robin Hood builds a plan to rescue him from this tight spot but is captured. The Merry Men then have to fulfil a double mission: find Robin Hood and save the King. Cast * Don Taylor as Robin Hood * Reginald Beckwith as Friar Tuck * Eileen Moore as Lady Alys * David King-Wood as Sir Guy Belton * Douglas Wilmer as Sir Nigel Saltire * Harold Lang as Hubert * Ballard Berkeley as Walter * Patrick Holt as Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Stranger Came Home
''A Stranger Came Home'' is a 1954 British film noir directed by Terence Fisher and starring Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester and Patrick Holt. The film was produced by Hammer Films at Bray Studios with sets designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It is based on the 1946 novel ''Stranger at Home'', which was credited to film actor George Sanders but was actually ghostwritten by Leigh Brackett. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures under the title ''The Unholy Four''. Plot Four friends go on a fishing trip but only three return. After an absence of four years, during which time he had been an amnesiac, the fourth man, Philip Vickers, returns home after regaining his memory. He tells of a "friend" who knocked him out, drugged him, and left him to die. Any one of the remaining men could be a suspect as Job Crandall, Bill Saul and Harry Bryce have all been interested in Philip's attractive 'widow', Angie. Unfortunately, Philip's return coincides with a mur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Orange (1953 Film)
''Blood Orange'' is a 1953 British crime film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Tom Conway and Mila Parély. It was released in the United States as ''Three Stops to Murder''. A private eye investigating a jewel robbery at a London fashion house finds himself involved in a murder mystery. The film is one of a handful of thrillers that Fisher made for Hammer Film Productions before he directed many of their early horror films in the late 1950s. Cast * Tom Conway as Tom Conway * Mila Parély as Helen Pascall * Naomi Chance as Gina * Eric Pohlmann as Mr Mercedes * Andrew Osborn as Captain Colin Simpson * Richard Wattis as Detective Inspector MacLeod * Margaret Halstan as Lady Marchant * Eileen Way as Mme Fernande * Michael Ripper as Eddie * Betty Cooper as Miss Betty * Thomas Heathcote as Detective Sergeant Jessup * Alan Rolfe as Inspector * Roger Delgado as Marlowe * Reed DeRoven as Heath * Delphi Lawrence Delphi Lawrence (23 March 1932 – 11 April 2002) was an En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face The Music (film)
''Face the Music'' is a 1954 British crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher, starring Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield and Paul Carpenter. It was produced by Hammer Films and shot at Bray Studios outside London with sets designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures under the title ''The Black Glove''. Synopsis An American trumpet player in Britain is accused of murdering a beautiful blues singer. Cast * Alex Nicol as James Bradley * Eleanor Summerfield as Barbara Quigley * John Salew as Maxie Maguilies * Paul Carpenter as Johnny Sutherland * Geoffrey Keen as Maurie Green * Ann Hanslip as Maxine Halbard * Fred Johnson as Detective Sergeant MacKenzie * Martin Boddey as Inspector Mulrooney * Arthur Lane as Jeff Colt * Paula Byrne as Gloria Lewis Colt * Leo Phillips as Dresser * Freddie Tripp as Stage manager * Ben Williams as Gatekeeper * Frank Birch as Trumpet Salesman * Jeremy Hawk as Recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaceways
''Spaceways'' is a 1953 science fiction drama film from Hammer Film Productions Ltd. and Lippert Productions Inc., produced by Michael Carreras, directed by Terence Fisher, that stars Howard Duff and Eva Bartok, and co-stars Alan Wheatley. ''Spaceways'' was filmed entirely in the UK. American Robert L. Lippert was an uncredited co-producer. The screenplay was written by Paul Tabori and Richard Landau, based on a radio play by Charles Eric Maine. The film was distributed in the UK by Exclusive Films Ltd. and in the United States by Lippert Pictures. Plot Engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell is part of a British space programme that plans to launch a satellite that will permanently orbit earth. At a cocktail party, it is announced to the programme's staff that the satellite project has been approved by the defence council. Mitchell's wife Vanessa is not enthusiastic about the new project, nor with having to live at its high security base. She sneaks away with Dr Philip Crenshaw, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantrap (1953 Film)
''Mantrap'', released in the United States as ''Man in Hiding'', is a 1953 whodunit directed by Terence Fisher, starring Paul Henreid. Plot A falsely convicted murderer escapes prison to seek out who the real killer is and to clear his name. Cast *Paul Henreid as Hugo Bishop *Lois Maxwell as Thelma Speight *Kieron Moore as Speight *Hugh Sinclair as Maurice Jerrard *Lloyd Lamble as Inspector Frisnay *Anthony Forwood as Rex *Bill Travers as Victor Tasman *Mary Laura Wood as Susie Martin *Kay Kendall as Vera Gorringe *Conrad Phillips as Det. Sgt. Barker * John Stuart as Doctor Production The film was based on the 1952 novel ''Queen in Danger'' by Elleston Trevor. It was made by Hammer Films and shot at the Bray Studios and on location in London, mostly near St Paul's Cathedral. Paul Henreid Paul Henreid (November 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) was an Austrian-British- American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for two film roles; Victor Laszlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Look Back (1952 Film)
''Never Look Back'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by Francis Searle and starring Rosamund John, Hugh Sinclair and Guy Middleton. The screenplay concerns a newly appointed female barrister whose career is threatened by a former lover. It was made by Hammer Films at the Mancunian Studios in Manchester. Plot Anne Maitland is the King's Counsel who receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome (Middleton). When Ransome is then accused of murdering his mistress on the same night, Anne takes on his defense. In a court battle against Nigel Stewart, a barrister who is madly in love with her, Maitland clears Ransome of murder by disclosing her earlier relationship with him, and that he was staying in her flat on the night of the crime. However, when it is discovered that Ransome did commit the murder, Maitland's reputation is in tatters. But this failure leaves her finally able to marry Nigel Stewart when he is no longer a professional threat. Cast * Rosa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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