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Norman Williams (producer)
Norman Williams (7 June 1918 – 27 March 2010) was a British actor and film producer born in Holywell, Flintshire. He acted in the 1940s and early 1950s before turning to producing. Selected Credits *''Once a Sinner'' (1950) *''The Errol Flynn Theatre'' (1956) *''White Hunter'' (1957) *''Witness in the Dark'' (1959) - (starring Williams' wife, ''Patricia Dainton'') *'' The Shakedown'' (1960) *''Your Money or Your Wife'' (1960) *''And Women Shall Weep'' (1960) *''Piccadilly Third Stop'' (1960) *'' It's All Happening'' (1963) *''The Man Who Finally Died'' (1963) *''Five Golden Dragons'' (1967) - production supervisor *''The Million Eyes of Sumuru'' (1967) - production supervisor References External linksNorman Williamsat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...Norm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flintshire
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Piccadilly Third Stop
''Piccadilly Third Stop'' is a 1960 British thriller film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani and John Crawford. The screenplay concerns a wealthy playboy who hires a gang of criminals to help him steal £100,000. It was shot at Pinewood Studios and on location around London, including numerous locations around Belgravia. Holborn tube station filled in as the fictional "Belgravia station" on the Piccadilly line. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernest Archer. Plot Crook Dominic Colpoys-Owen (Terence Morgan) has his eye on the loot inside an embassy in London after an ambassador's daughter, Seraphina (Yoko Tani), unwittingly reveals that her father, away on business, has left big money behind in the safe. Colpoys-Owen works his smooth-talking charm on the innocent girl, who becomes so infatuated that she agrees to help his gang with its plan. This involves a robbery from the embassy, which is in Knightsbridge, via the London Underground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Births
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Million Eyes Of Sumuru
''The Million Eyes of Sumuru'' is a 1967 British spy film produced by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Lindsay Shonteff and filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. It stars Frankie Avalon and George Nader, with Shirley Eaton as the title character Sumuru (). It was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniacal femme fatale. The film was released in the U.S. by American International Pictures on 17 May 1967. In the U.K., it was released through Warner-Pathé on 3 December, titled simply ''Sumuru''. Terry Bourke was production manager. Plot Sumuru is a beautiful and evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army eliminate male leaders and replace them with her female agents. The Chief of Security for President Boong of Sinonesia is killed. Two Americans in Hong Kong, Nick West and his friend Tommy Carter, are persuaded by the head of British intelligence, Colonel Baisbrook, to investigate. They discover the organisation headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Golden Dragons
''Five Golden Dragons'' is a 1967 international co-production comedy action film set in Hong Kong and photographed in Techniscope on location in September 1966 at the Tiger Balm Pagoda and Shaw Brothers studios. It was directed by Jeremy Summers and starred Bob Cummings in his final theatrical feature film, Margaret Lee who sings two songs in the film, Rupert Davies and a cast of "guest stars". The film was produced and written (under pen name Peter Welbeck) by Harry Alan Towers and co-stars his wife Maria Rohm as one of the three female leads. The film features a minor connection to Edgar Wallace's short stories by using his Commissioner Sanders as an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police with Towers using Wallace's name to attract funds from international film investors. Plot The Five Golden Dragons are an international criminal gold trafficking secret society syndicate based in Hong Kong. They plan to break up after selling their criminal enterprise to the Mafia for US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Finally Died
''The Man Who Finally Died '' is a 1963 British CinemaScope thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling and Eric Portman. It was based on a 1959 ITV series of the same name. The screenplay concerns a German immigrant living in Britain who receives a mysterious phone call telling him his father is not really dead. He returns to Bavaria to investigate the matter. John Burke wrote a novelisation of the screenplay. Plot summary Joe Newman, formerly Joachim Deutsch, returns to his small hometown in Bavaria, after living in the UK since the outbreak of World War II. He seeks information of what has become of his father, Kurtz. He finds out that his father is dead, but that he escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, went to live with a certain Dr von Brecht, and later married a woman named Lisa. Everyone Joe approaches to find answers, including Police Inspector Hofmeister and insurance agent Brenner, is reluctant to talk and giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's All Happening (film)
''It's All Happening'' is a 1963 British musical film directed by Don Sharp and starring Tommy Steele, Michael Medwin and Angela Douglas. It is sometimes known under the alternative title ''The Dream Maker''. Premise A talent scout for a record company is frustrated by his lack of progress with his career. When the orphanage where he was brought up is threatened with closing, he decides to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands. Selected cast * Tommy Steele - Billy Bowles * Michael Medwin - Max Catlin * Angela Douglas - Julie Singleton * Jean Harvey - Delia * Bernard Bresslaw - Parsons * Walter Hudd - J.B. Magdeburg * John Tate - Julian Singleton * Janet Henfrey - April * Richard Goolden - Lord Sweatstone * Keith Faulkner - Mick * Edward Cast - Hugh * Anthony Dawes - Cyril Bong Production Produced for $430,000, the film was shot and ready for release in cinemas in only six weeks. Director Don Sharp had made a similar musical '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Women Shall Weep
''And Women Shall Weep'' is a 1960 British drama film directed by John Lemont and starring Ruth Dunning, Max Butterfield and Richard O'Sullivan. Its plot is about a mother who tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother. The title is taken from Charles Kingsley's 1851 poem, Three Fishers. Cast * Ruth Dunning – Mrs Lumsden * Max Butterfield – Terry Lumsden * Richard O'Sullivan Richard O'Sullivan (born 7 May 1944) is an English comedy actor, who is known for his role as Robin Tripp in the 1970s sitcoms ''Man About the House'' (1973–1976) and ''Robin's Nest (TV series), Robin's Nest'' (1977–1981) and as the title c ... – Godfrey Lumsden * Gillian Vaughan – Brenda Wilkes * Claire Gordon – Sadie MacDougall * David Gregory – Desmond Peel * David Rose – Woody Forrest * León García – Ossie Green * Prudence Bury - Jenny Owens References External links * 1960 films Films directed by John Lemont 1960 drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once A Sinner (1950 Film)
''Once a Sinner'' is a 1950 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Pat Kirkwood (actress), Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling and Joy Shelton. Plot Bank clerk John Ross (Jack Watling) falls for good-time girl Irene (Pat Kirkwood), and, although at first she tries to discourage him, they are quickly married. They soon find that Irene does not get along with John's middle-class parents and friends, and when he finally insists on meeting Irene's mother he is taken aback by her hostility towards her own daughter, but he learns that Irene has a child by her former lover, Jimmy (Sidney Tafler). When John tells her it's over between them, Irene reluctantly goes back to Jimmy and they move to London. A few weeks later, when John's father gives him his letters from Irene which his mother had tried to hide from him, John realises he still wants Irene and he sets off to find her. When he arrives, he eventually persuades Irene to go with him and they decide they will try to make a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Money Or Your Wife
''Your Money or Your Wife'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Anthony Simmons and starring Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, and Richard Wattis. In this farce, a couple must divorce in order to inherit a fortune. Cast * Donald Sinden as Pelham Butterworth * Peggy Cummins as Gay Butterworth * Richard Wattis as Hubert Fry * Peter Reynolds as Theodore Malek * Georgina Cookson as Thelma Cressingdon * Gladys Boot as Mrs. Compton Chamberlain * Barbara Steele as Juliet Frost * Betty Baskcomb as Janet Fry * Olive Sloane Olive Sloane (16 December 1896 – 28 June 1963) was an English actress whose film career spanned over 40 years from the silent era through to her death. Sloane's career trajectory was unusual in that for most of her professional life she was e ... as Mrs. Withers * Ian Fleming as The judge * Candy Scott as The maid * Noel Tregarthen as The chauffeur Release ''Your Money or Your Wife'' was released in March 1960 in Great Britain. Originally written as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shakedown (1959 Film)
''The Shakedown'' is a 1959 black and white British crime-drama film directed by John Lemont, starring Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, and Donald Pleasence. It was filmed in the United Kingdom. The film was banned in Finland (known there as ''Häväistyksen kauppiaat''). Plot Augustus ("Augie") Cortona, a recently released convict, opens up a modelling school and photographic studio that serves as a front for a service enabling amateurs to take erotic photographs, while blackmailing some of the participants by taking pictures through a two-way mirror of their participation. Meanwhile, a longstanding feud with a rival gangster who took over his operation while he was imprisoned continues. Scotland Yard decide to investigate Cortona by sending an officer, Mildred Eyde, (Hazel Court), to operate undercover by enrolling as a student model. Cortona is smitten by Eyde and begins to woo her. Eyde's cover is blown when Spettigue is informed that she is a policewoman by a fellow con who rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
