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Patrick Kirwan
Patrick Kirwan (1899–1984) was a British screenwriter. Selected filmography * '' Riders to the Sea'' (1936) * ''Wings Over Africa'' (1936) * '' Bulldog Drummond at Bay'' (1937) * '' Farewell Again'' (1937) * '' The Drum'' (1938) * '' The Challenge'' (1938) * ''Queer Cargo'' (1938) * '' The Dark Eyes of London'' (1939) * ''On the Night of the Fire'' (1939) * ''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' (1939) * ''Bulldog Sees It Through'' (1940) * '' Convoy'' (1940) * '' Ships with Wings'' (1941) * '' The Day Will Dawn'' (1942) * ''Unpublished Story'' (1942)) * '' Dear Octopus'' (1943) * ''Escape to Danger'' (1943) * ''The Captive Heart'' (1946) * '' The Turners of Prospect Road'' (1947) * '' Once Upon a Dream'' (1949) * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) * ''The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery'' (1950) * '' A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) * ''Hotel Sahara'' (1951) * '' Top of the Form'' (1953) * ''Desperate Moment'' (1953) * '' The Fake'' (1953) * '' Up to His Neck'' (1954) * ''Jacqueline'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief " scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape To Danger
''Escape to Danger'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and Victor Hanbury and starring Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak and Karel Stepanek. Plot During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade. Cast * Eric Portman as Arthur Lawrence * Ann Dvorak as Joan Grahame * Karel Stepanek as Franz von Brinkman * Ronald Ward as Rupert Chessman * Ronald Adam as George Merrick * Felix Aylmer as Sir Alfred Horton * Brefni O'Rorke as Security Officer * A. E. Matthews as Sir Thomas Leighton * Ivor Barnard as Henry Waud * David Peel as Lt. Peter Leighton * Charles Victor as Petty Officer Flanagan * George Merritt as Works Manager * Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Pickles * John Ruddock as Jim * Frederick Cooper as Gösta Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Exile
''Dangerous Exile'' is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors. Plot In 1795, the Duke Philippe de Beauvais smuggles his own son into the prison cell where Louis XVII is kept. Thus Louis XVII can escape unnoticed to England. Unfortunately the aerostat, steered by Duke Philippe de Beauvais, lands accidentally on a remote island. There an American spinster, Virginia Traill, takes care of the strange child. She finds the dauphin profoundly traumatised and not interested in becoming a king. Meanwhile, Louis' uncle in Vienna has declared himself the new French king. In order to safeguard his claim on the throne, he sends assassins who shall murder the dauphin. Being unaware of the exchange, he has Richard de Beauvais killed. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline (1956 Film)
''Jacqueline'' is a 1956 British drama film shot in Belfast and directed by Roy Ward Baker. It is based on the novel ''The Grand Man'' (1954) by Catherine Cookson. Plot Steel worker Mike McNeil's drinking spirals out of control when he loses his job due to vertigo at the Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingd ... shipyard. But his devoted young daughter Jacqueline vows to help him. She attempts to persuade a tough land-owner to give her troubled dad another chance. Cast Critical reception Britmovie called the film "gushingly sentimental"; while Sky Movies called it "a likeable little drama with earnest performances and atmospheric background detail." References External links * 1956 films 1956 drama films Northern Irish films British drama films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up To His Neck
''Up to His Neck'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner as Jack Carter, Hattie Jacques as Rakiki and Anthony Newley as Tommy. It was shot at Pinewood Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. Plot Sailor Jack Carter has been marooned for ten years on a South Seas Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, is used in several contexts. Most commonly it refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. In 1513, when Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa coined the term ''Mar del Sur' ... island, and treated as a King by natives. He is eventually rescued by the Royal Navy, who then use him to train up commandos to recover a stolen submarine, and to foil an oriental criminal plot. Cast References External links * 1954 films 1954 comedy films British comedy films Military humor in film Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs Films with screenplays by John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fake (1953 Film)
''The Fake'' is a 1953 British crime film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray and Hugh Williams. Its plot concerns an American detective who tries to solve the theft of a priceless painting from the Tate Gallery in London. Plot When Leonardo da Vinci's ''Madonna and Child'' arrives at London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, American Paul Mitchell (Dennis O'Keefe) is assigned to guard it. However, on examination, Paul realizes that the painting has been replaced with a fake. Joining forces with Tate employee Mary Mason (Coleen Gray), Paul attempts to find the original and collect the museum's $50,000 reward for its recovery. Cast * Dennis O'Keefe - Paul Mitchell * Coleen Gray - Mary Mason * Hugh Williams - Sir Richard Aldingham * Guy Middleton - Smith * John Laurie - Henry Mason * Eliot Makeham - Pavement Artist * Gerald Case - Peter Randall * Seymour Green - Weston * Stanley Van Beers - Cartwright * Dora Bryan - Barmaid * Ellen Pollo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desperate Moment
''Desperate Moment'' is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling and Philip Friend. It is based on the 1951 Desperate Moment (novel), novel of the same title by Martha Albrand. It was made at Pinewood Studios and location filming, on location in Germany including scenes shot at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Carter (film designer), Maurice Carter. Plot In the years immediately after World War II, a Dutchman, ex Resistance during World War II, resistance, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder, committed during a robbery, that he confessed to but did not commit. After discovering that the girl he has loved since childhood is not dead, as he had been told, he escapes from prison and goes on the run through a devastated Germany in search of the witnesses who can clear him, with her help. But the witnesses begin to die apparently accidental deaths shortly before h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Of The Form (film)
''Top of the Form'' is a 1953 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley and Harry Fowler. The film draws inspiration from Will Hay's 1937 classic '' Good Morning, Boys''. The film was released in black-and-white. It was made at Pinewood Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Maurice Carter. The film earned billings of £143,000. Plot summary This story explores a bookmaker Ronnie Fortescue (Ronald Shiner), who becomes headmaster of a boys' school, and of his and his pupil's adventures in passing examinations and on a subsequent free trip to Paris. Once in Paris, headmaster and pupils become embroiled in gambling casinos, and in a plot to steal the French Crown Jewels. Cast *Ronald Shiner as Professor Ronnie Fortescue *Anthony Newley as Percy *Harry Fowler as Albert *Jacqueline Pierreux as Yvette *Alfie Bass as Arty Jones *Mary Jerrold as Mrs. Bagshot *Richard Wattis as Willoughby Gore *Howard Marion-Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Sahara
''Hotel Sahara'' is a 1951 British war comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David Tomlinson. It was produced and co-written by George Hambley Brown. Plot The Hotel Sahara, situated in a desert oasis, quickly empties when the patrons learn that the Italian Army has commenced hostilities in the North African Campaign. Emad, the hotel's owner, also wants to flee, but is persuaded by his fiancee, Yasmin, to stay and try to save the hotel, all he owns. The other two members of the staff also stay: Yasmin's mother, Madame Pallas, and Yusef, the major domo. The Italians take over the hotel, and Capitano Alberto Giuseppi (in the film, he introduces himself as Alberto Del Nobile, a more plausible Italian surname than "Giuseppi") is soon captivated by Yasmin's charms. His orderly is attracted to Madame Pallas. Later, however, the Italian Army suffers a defeat, and the small detachment is ordered to destroy any structures that may aid the en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tale Of Five Cities
''A Tale of Five Cities'' ( it, Passaporto per l'oriente and released as ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the US) is a 1951 British-Italian international co-production drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini and five other directors. The five cities cited in the title are: Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, and Vienna. Synopsis When Englishman Bob Mitchell (Bonar Colleano) leaves his longtime home in America to enlist in the Royal Air Force, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory. As Bob has no identity tags, doctors unknowingly repatriate him to America, where magazine editor Lesley (Barbara Kelly) learns of his condition. All Bob can recall are five women from various European cities, so the magazine sponsors a trip for him to visit each, hoping he'll learn crucial details of his identity. Cast * Bonar Colleano as Bob Mitchell * Barbara Kelly as Lesley - American Magazine Editor * Anne Vernon as Jeannine Meunier * Karin Himboldt as Charlotte Smith (as Karin Himb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
''The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson, and Clifford Evans. The film is a strange hybrid: with the Twenty Questions sections being a true studio recording with the normal panellists and presenters. This is then threaded into the plot as the clues which are guessed trigger a series of murder, each in turn linked to the clue. Plot The story begins with a long queue of adults waiting to enter the Paris cinema. The narrator explains the cinema does not show movies: it is a BBC studio used for radio recordings and broadcasts. Inside the '' Twenty Questions'' panel show is being recorded in front of the audience, and is broadcast live. The first item to be guessed is "pig ears" and this raises no issues. However, the second item to be guessed is Rikitikitavi (the short story by Rudyard Kipling. We see the panel correctly reach the correct answer on the final attempt. Meanwhile, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chiltern Hundreds (film)
''The Chiltern Hundreds'' (released in the U.S. as ''The Amazing Mr. Beecham'') is a 1949 British politically-themed comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, adapting William Douglas Home's 1947 play of the same name and starring Lana Morris, David Tomlinson and Cecil Parker. Synopsis Viscount Pym ( David Tomlinson) – whilst on National Service – gets leave from the British Army on the pretext of standing for Parliament as a Conservative Party candidate in his home constituency, held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancée June Farrell (Helen Backlin) while she is still in England and before she has to return home to America. His master plan backfires when he finds himself swept into the election campaign and beaten by the more politically experienced Mr Cleghorn ( Tom Macaulay), the Labour Party candidate. After losing the election, his family take the news calmly, but his fiancée is mortified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
