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Peter Bezencenet
Peter Bezencenet (1914–2003) was a British film editor and film director. He co-scripted the 1936 film ''Conquest of the Air''.Morley p.84 He was employed by the Rank Organisation on a number of films during the 1950s, including several for Ealing Studios. He also acted as location director for the television series ''Richard the Lionheart'' in the early 1960s. During the 1960s he directed four films and episodes of the TV series '' The Pursuers''. Selected filmography * ''Conquest of the Air'' (1936) * ''Floodtide'' (1949) * ''Poet's Pub'' (1949) * '' Intimate Relations'' (1953) * ''The Square Ring'' (1953) * ''The Divided Heart'' (1954) * '' West of Zanzibar'' (1954) * ''The Ship That Died of Shame'' (1955) * '' The Feminine Touch'' (1956) * ''Dangerous Exile'' (1957) * '' The Secret Place'' (1957) * ''Rooney'' (1958) * ''Floods of Fear'' (1958) * ''Jack the Ripper'' (1959) * ''Tommy the Toreador'' (1959) * ''The Siege of Sidney Street'' (1960) * ''Jungle Street'' (1961) * ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochford, Essex
Rochford is a town in Essex, England, north of Southend-on-Sea, from London and from Chelmsford, the county town. At the 2011 census, the civil parish, which includes the town and London Southend Airport, had a population of 8,471. History The town is the main settlement in the Rochford district, and takes its name from Rochefort, Old English for ‘Ford of the Hunting Dogs’. The River Roach was originally called the Walfleet (‘Creek of the foreigners’). It was renamed the Roach in what is known as a back formation. This is where it is assumed that Rochford means ford over the River Roach so they renamed the river to fit the theory. The town runs into suburban developments in the parishes of Ashingdon and Hawkwell. Kings Hill, in Rochford, was notable for containing the Lawless Court up until the 19th century. Peculiar People In 1837 James Banyard (14 November 1800 – 1863) (a reformed drunk and Wesleyan preacher) and William Bridges (1802–1874) took a lease on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Zanzibar (1954 Film)
''For the 1928 film starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Warner Baxter, see West of Zanzibar (1928 film)'' ''West of Zanzibar'' is a 1954 British adventure film directed by Harry Watt and starring Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim and Edric Connor. It is a sequel to ''Where No Vultures Fly'' (1951), from the same director and producer, and continues the adventures of game warden Bob Payton, played again by Anthony Steel. The subject of the film is ivory smuggling, and although the film appears to side with the African natives against economic exploitation, it was banned by the government of Kenya, which considered its approach too paternalistic. Plot The rural African Galana tribe move to Mombasa following a drought. The tribe's peaceful ways are destroyed by the influence of illegal ivory traders. Game warden Bob Payton turns detective, travelling to Zanzibar to discover the ringleader behind the ivory smuggling. Payton tracks his quarry through some of the most treacherous passa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hair Of The Dog (film)
''Hair of the Dog'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Terry Bishop and starring Reginald Beckwith, Dorinda Stevens and John Le Mesurier. Fred Tickle is commissionaire at a razor blade factory, and grows a beard after developing a shaving rash, but his new appearance doesn't go down well with management. Cast * Reginald Beckwith as Fred Tickle * Dorinda Stevens as Ann Tickle * John Le Mesurier as Sir Mortimer Gallant * Brian Oulton as Gregory Willett * Alison Bayley as Violet Tickle * Harold Goodwin as Percy * Barbara Windsor as Elsie Grumble * Stanley Morgan as Jim Lester * Stanley Unwin as Vicar * Keith Smith as Interviewer * Tony Hawes as Mr Rembrandt * Edward Malin as Sidney * Raymond Rollett as Arthur * Cardew Robinson Douglas John Cardew Robinson (14 August 1917 – 28 December 1992) was a British comic, whose career was rooted in the music hall and Gang Shows. Early life and career Born in Goodmayes, Essex, Robinson was educated at Harrow County Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Of Thieves (1962 Film)
''Band of Thieves'' is a 1962 British musical film directed by Peter Bezencenet and starring Acker Bilk, Geoffrey Sumner and Jennifer Jayne. It was produced as a second feature in an attempt to cash in on the Trad jazz craze.Chibnall & McFarlane p.59 It was shot at Pinewood Studios. Cast * Acker Bilk as Self * Colin Smith as Flash * Jonathan Mortimer as Fingers * Ronald McKay as Scouse * Roy James as Dippy * Stan Greig as Haggis * Ernest Price as The Mole * Geoffrey Sumner as The Governor * Jimmy Thompson as Dandy * Jennifer Jayne as Anne * Maudie Edwards as The Duchess * Charmian Innes as Mrs. Van Der Ness * Arthur Mullard as Getaway * Michael Peake as Chief Warder * Totti Truman Taylor as Woman * Marianne Stone as Cleaner * Eleanor McCready as Girl * Norrie Paramor as Self - Recording Engineer * Peter Haigh as Self - Newsreader * Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band as Themselves * Carol Deene Carol Deene (born Carole Carver; 3 August 1944) is an English pop singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Afternoon
''Dangerous Afternoon'' is a 1961 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Ruth Dunning. It was primarily filmed at Twickenham Studios, with the shops next to Strawberry Hill railway station, notably the chemist's in Wellesley Parade, being used for external location shots. Cast * Ruth Dunning as Miss Letty Frost * Nora Nicholson as Mrs Louisa Sprule * Joanna Dunham as Freda * Howard Pays as Jack Loring * May Hallatt as Miss Burge * Gwenda Wilson as Miss Jean Berry * Ian Colin as Reverend Everard Porson * Gladys Henson as Miss Cassell * Barbara Everest as Mrs Judson * Max Brimmell as Dr Spalding * James Raglan as Sir Phillip Morstan * Trevor Reid as Inspector Craven * Jerold Wells Jerold Wells (8 August 1908 – 19 July 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Wallington, Hampshire, and died in Bath, Somerset. He appeared primarily in British comedies. Films included ''Adventures of a Plumber's Mate'' and the TV-made ... as George "Butch" Birling Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Street
''Jungle Street'' is a 1961 black and white British crime drama directed by Charles Saunders and starring David McCallum, Kenneth Cope, and Jill Ireland, about a young man who attempts to escape his working-class background and win the girl he loves through crime. The film was the first of three films produced by the Theatrecraft production company in the early 1960s. It was later released in the United States under the title ''Jungle Street Girls''. Plot The credits roll as a number 12 double decker bus headed for Harlesden drives through London. It stops in Shepherd's Bush. An elderly man gets off and is mugged by a young man in an alley. We then go to the Adam and Eve Club, where girls perform erotic dances on stage. In the club lobby car mechanic (and petty criminal) Terry Collins (David McCallum) speaks with Joe Lucas ( Brian Weske) at the outer bar and asks to see the owner - gangster Jacko Fielding (John Chandos). Jacko is with his main girl, Sue. Julie, the hatchec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Siege Of Sidney Street
''The Siege of Sidney Street'' is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. It stars Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger and Kieron Moore. The film dramatises the 1909 Tottenham Outrage - a bungled wages-snatch which resulted in the murder of a police officer and a ten-year-old bystander as well as the two armed robbers - and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, in which armed police surrounded a house in East End of London occupied by a gang who had killed three police officers during a bungled attempt to break into a jeweller's shop. The film depicts the two events as both taking place in 1911, the work of the same gang. It was filmed at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, with shots of Dublin standing in for pre-First World War East London. Cast Production Donald Sinden, then a contract star for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios, recalled "The scene in the blazing room we filmed in the studio and I was vastly intrigued to watch the way th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy The Toreador
''Tommy the Toreador'' is a 1959 British musical comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sid James, Bernard Cribbins, Noel Purcell and Kenneth Williams. Premise A British ship docks in Spain and Tommy, a sailor from London, gets stranded after he saves the life of a bullfighter. Cast * Tommy Steele as Tommy * Janet Munro as Amanda * Sid James as Cadena * Bernard Cribbins as Paco * Noel Purcell as Captain * Virgilio Teixeira as Parilla, the Bullfighter * José Nieto as Inspector Quintero * Ferdy Mayne as Lopez * Harold Kasket as Jose * Kenneth Williams as Vice-Consul * Eric Sykes as Martin Production Janet Munro was borrowed from Walt Disney, who had her under contract. The film was shot at the Associated British studios in Borehamwood. There was location filming in Seville in May 1959. Steele says filming took 12 weeks and that Carstairs was a "chubby, jovial ball of energy... his direction was always precise and without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack The Ripper (1959 Film)
''Jack the Ripper'' is a 1959 film produced and directed by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker. It is loosely based on Leonard Matters' theory that Jack the Ripper was an avenging doctor. The black-and-white film stars Lee Patterson and Eddie Byrne and co-stars Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, and Ewen Solon. It was released in England in 1959, and shown in the U.S. in 1960. The plot is a "whodunit" with false leads and a denouement in which the least likely character, in this case "Sir David Rogers" played by Ewen Solon, is revealed as the culprit. As in Matters' book, ''The Mystery of Jack the Ripper'', Solon's character murders prostitutes to avenge the death of his son. While Matters had the son dying from venereal disease, the film has him committing suicide on learning his lover is a prostitute. Plot In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill (Byrne) welcomes a visit from his old friend, New York City detective Sam Lowry (Patterson) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floods Of Fear
''Floods of Fear'' is a 1958 British thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood and Harry H. Corbett. Plot During a flood, convicts Donovan (Howard Keel) and Peebles (Cyril Cusack) escape, but they become marooned in a house, along with one of their prison guards Sharkey ( Harry H. Corbett) and a young woman Elizabeth Mathews ( Anne Heywood) who lives there. Having managed to escape, Donovan is determined to prove his innocence and that he was wrongly jailed for murdering a woman. Cast * Howard Keel as Donovan * Anne Heywood as Elizabeth Matthews * Cyril Cusack as Peebles * Harry H. Corbett as Sharkey * John Crawford as Jack Murphy * Eddie Byrne as Sheriff * John Phillips as Dr. Matthews *Mark Baker as Watchman *James Dyrenforth as Mayor *Jack Lester as Businessman * Peter Madden as Banker *Guy Kingsley Poynter as Deputy Sheriff *Gordon Tanner as Lt-Colonel *Robert Mackenzie as Police Captain *Vivian Matalon as Farmer *Gordon S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooney (film)
''Rooney'' is a 1958 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Catherine Cookson. Plot The film depicts the life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends, and a Dublin rubbish collector during the week. Cast * John Gregson as James Ignatius Rooney * Muriel Pavlow as Maire Hogan * Barry Fitzgerald as Grandfather * June Thorburn as Doreen O'Flynn * Noel Purcell as Tim Hennessy * Marie Kean as Mrs. O'Flynn * Liam Redmond as Mr. Doolan * Jack MacGowran as Joe O'Connor * Eddie Byrne as Mickey Hart * Philip O'Flynn as Paddy Ryan * Harold Goldblatt as Police Inspector * Pauline Delaney as Mrs. Wall * Godfrey Quigley as Tom Reilly * Irene Browne as Mrs. Manning ffrench * Joan Phillips as Sheila O'Flynn Critical reception Bosley Crowther in ''The New York Times'' gave the film a mixed review though he added that, "we must say, John Gregson goes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Place (film)
''The Secret Place'' is a 1957 British crime film that was the directorial debut of Clive Donner. It stars Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis, and David McCallum in a supporting role. Plot In this crime melodrama, set in a badly bombed district in the East End of London after the war, a gang carries out a diamond robbery and an adolescent boy, Freddie Haywood, discovers their loot hidden in his home. Freddie has a crush on a kiosk attendant, Molly Wilson, who is engaged to Gerry Carter, a member of the gang. After the robbery, from a jeweller's in Hatton Garden, Gerry hides the diamonds inside Molly's record player. Not knowing this, Molly gives the player to Freddie as a thankyou gift. Freddie discovers the diamonds and the gang go after him. Cast * Belinda Lee as Molly Wilson * Ronald Lewis as Gerry Carter * Michael Brooke as Freddie Haywood * Michael Gwynn as Steve Warring * Geoffrey Keen as Mr Haywood * David McCallum as Mike Wilson * Maureen Pryor as Mrs Haywood * George Selway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
