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André Mikhelson
André Mikhelson was a Russian actor, in mostly British films. He was born in Moscow, in 1903. Selected filmography * ''The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) - El Greco (uncredited) * ''Desperate Moment'' (1953) - Polizei Inspector * ''Star of My Night'' (1954) - Papa Condor * ''The Divided Heart'' (1954) - Prof. Miran * ''To Paris with Love'' (1955) - Head Porter (uncredited) * ''Break in the Circle'' (1955) - Russian thug answering Ludwigstrasse door * ''Little Red Monkey'' (1955) - East German Chief of Border Guards (uncredited) * ''I Am a Camera (film), I Am a Camera'' (1955) - Head Waiter (Troika) * ''The Intimate Stranger (1956 film), The Intimate Stranger'' (1956) - Steve Vadney * ''The Iron Petticoat'' (1956) - Charash * ''Loser Takes All (film), Loser Takes All'' (1956) - Head Waiter (uncredited) * ''Anastasia (1956 film), Anastasia'' (1956) - Older Man (uncredited) * ''Guilty? (1956 film), Guilty?'' (1956) - Santos * ''Dangerous Exile'' (1957) - Prison Doctor Perrot (uncred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gambler And The Lady
''The Gambler and the Lady'' is a 1952 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron and Naomi Chance. It was written by Newfield and produced by Hammer Films, filmed at Bray Studios. Michael Carreras handled Casting, Phil Leakey Makeup and J. Elder Wills was Art Director. The film was directed by American Sam Newfield, but for labor quota reasons, a British director (Patrick Jenkins) had to be credited instead on the British prints (both were co-credited on the US prints). Filming went from May 19, 1952 through June 16, 1952, and the film was trade shown in the UK on Jan. 6, 1953. The film was released first in the US in December 1952, and then later in the UK in January, 1953. Plot Four years before, American gambler Jim Forster was broke. He borrowed £1 from Maxie, proprietor of Maxie's Barn, and had a very lucky gambling streak. He continued to rise and now owns posh illegal casinos, a nightclub and other enterpr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbikins
''Bobbikins'' is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves. It was written by Oscar Brodney and made in CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. It was produced by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox and shot at Elstree Studios. Plot This adventure follows the story of a young navy man, his wife and their baby son, Bobby, also known as Bobbikins''.'' To his surprise, Dad discovers his son talks, not baby-talk or gibberish but has adult conversations with his father only. Bobbikins learns stock market tips and passes them to his Dad. After making a killing on the stock market, problems really begin. The dad is presumed mad, the government is after him, and the breakdown of relations between the young couple ensues. But there is hope. Cast * Shirley Jones as Betty Barnaby * Max Bygraves as Ben Barnaby * Steven Stocker as Bobbikins Barnaby * Billie Whitelaw as Lydia Simmons * Barbara Shelley as Valerie * Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Of Spies
''Ring of Spies'' (also known as ''Ring of Treason'') is a 1964 British spy film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Lee, William Sylvester and Margaret Tyzack. It was written by Peter Barnes and Frank Launder based on the real-life case of the Portland spy ring, whose activities prompted " Reds under the bed" scare stories in the British popular press in the early 1960s. Plot Harry Houghton, a dissatisfied and alcoholic embassy attaché, disgraces himself at an official garden party in Warsaw, Poland. Knowing he is to be disciplined the following day, he says goodbye to his girlfriend, who reports back to the Russian embassy about his inevitable return to England. Despite a poor report from his previous superiors, Houghton is posted to the top secret Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment at Portland, a Royal Navy equipment testing facility. Houghton is soon approached by secret Soviet intelligence to hand over documents to them, as he apparently had in Warsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Damned
''Children of the Damned'' is a 1964 British black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Anton M. Leader, and starring Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris and Alfred Burke. It is a thematic sequel to '' Village of the Damned'' (1960) which concerns a group of children with similar psi-powers to those in the earlier film. The film enables an interpretation of the children as being a good and more pure form of human being, rather than evil and alien. Plot Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of time. British psychologist Tom Lewellyn and geneticist David Neville are interested in Paul, a London boy whose mother Diana clearly hates the child and insists she was never touched by a man. This is initially dismissed as hysteria and it is implied she has loose morals. But after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Me Bwana
''Call Me Bwana'' is a 1963 British Technicolor farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg and directed by Gordon Douglas. Largely set in Africa, it was the only film made by Eon Productions not about the fictional MI6 agent James Bond until the 2014 film '' The Silent Storm''. It was made by most of the same crew as '' Dr. No''. Plot Bob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment furnished to look like an African safari lodge complete with sound effects records of African fauna. Based on his false reputation as an "Africa Expert", he is recruited by the United States Government and NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Hope's co-stars include Edie Adams and Anita Ekberg playing secret agents. Golfer Arnold Palmer also makes a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number Six (film)
''Number Six'' (also known as ''Number 6'') is a 1962 British film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Nadja Regin, Ivan Desny and Brian Bedford. The screenplay was by Philip Mackie. It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios. Plot Detective Superintendent Hallett of Scotland Yard is on the trail of international criminal Charles Valentine, and unconventinally puts a secret agent – "Number Six" – on the case, whose true identity he keeps a closely-guarded secret. When Valentine is attacked by a night-club waiter, young Jimmy Gale intervenes and Valentine takes him in as his assistant in a robbery, and goes ahead with his plans to rob wealthy heiress Nadia Leiven. When Hallett tells Valentine that he is being watched by Number Six, Valentine tries desperately to find out the agent's identity. Cast * Nadja Regin as Nadia Leiven * Ivan Desny as Charles Valentine * Brian Bedford as Jimmy Gale * Michael Goodliffe as Detec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Password Is Courage
''The Password Is Courage'' is a 1962 British comedy-drama war film written, produced, and directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, and Alfred Lynch. It was based on the 1954 World War II biography of the same name of Sergeant-Major Charles Coward by Ronald Payne and John Williams Garrod (written under the joint pseudonym John Castle). It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Sergeant-Major Charles Coward is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity. When he is being transferred to Stalag VIII-B, the injured Coward escapes from a forced march, finding refuge in a French farmhouse and barn that is soon requisitioned by a German army unit setting up a field hospital. Believed to be a wounded German soldier, Coward is taken to a hospital, where his identity is discovered, but not before he is awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaolbreak
''Gaolbreak'' is a 1962 British second feature crime film directed by Francis Searle and starring Peter Reynolds, Avice Landone and Carol White. It was written by A.R. Rawlinson. The film was released as a supporting feature to '' Tiara Tahiti'' (1962). Plot A family of thieves plan a jewellery store robbery. One of them is the safecracking expert, and when he is arrested and jailed, they spring him from prison so he can take part in the job. Cast * Peter Reynolds as Eddie Wallis * Avice Landone as Mrs. Wallis * David Kernan as Len Rogerson * Carol White as Carol Marshall * John Blythe as Slim * David Gregory as Ron Wallis * Robert Desmond as Page * Stewart Guidotti as John * Geoffrey Hibbert as Dr. Cambus * Robert Fyfe as Wally * Carl Bernard as Inspector Brand * Katharine Page as Mrs. Harris * Sidney Vivian as Mr. Marshall * Marianne Stone as Mrs. Marshall * Ivor Dean as Barrington * André Mikhelson as Martinetti * Middleton Woods as Jonah * Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flat Two
''Flat Two'' is a 1962 British second feature film directed by Alan Cooke and starring John Le Mesurier and Jack Watling. The screenplay, is written by Lindsay Galloway, and also based on the 1924 story of the same name by Edgar Wallace. The film is part of Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated from 1960 to 1965. Plot Crooked casino owner Emil Louba is found murdered in his apartment. There are three suspects: architect Frank Leamington, whose fiancée Susan owed Louba money; Charles Berry, who had a grudge against him, and Warden, a barrister. Leamington is arrested, and is defended in court by Warden. As the case progresses Warden is forced to present evidence that establishes himself as the killer. Cast * John Le Mesurier as Warden * Jack Watling as Frank Leamington * Bernard Archard as Trainer * Barry Keegan as Charles Berry * Ann Bell as Susan * Campbell Singer as Hurley Brown * Charles Lloyd Pack as Miller * David Bauer as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Course
''The Middle Course'' is a 1961 British low budget second feature ('B') war film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely and Peter Illing. It was written by Brian Clemens and produced by The Danzigers. Plot During World War II, a Canadian pilot crash lands in a small French village occupied by German forces. The villagers find a useful ally in the young flyer, but the Germans become anxious to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. Cast * Vincent Ball as Cliff * Lisa Daniely as Anna * Peter Illing as Gromik * Roland Bartrop as Paul * Marne Maitland as Renard * Robert Rietti as Jacques * André Maranne as Franz * André Mikhelson as Commandant * Jan Conrad as Herman * John Serret as Leverne * William Abney as Jaghorst * Yvonne André as Martine * Julian Sherrier as villager * Donald Tandy as Sgt. Wilhelm * Jacques Cey as Pierre Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "Tinpot death-or-glory war film, people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Shadow (1961 Film)
''The Long Shadow'' is a 1961 British B movie, second feature ('B') drama film directed by Peter Maxwell (director), Peter Maxwell and starring John Crawford (actor), John Crawford, Susan Hampshire and Willoughby Goddard. It was written by Manning O'Brine and filmed at Pinewood Studios. Plot summary In Vienna during the Cold War, the Russians and Americans try to gain control of a boy who can be manipulated for political purposes. An American newspaper journalist attempts to save the Hungarian child and a Swedish nurse from certain death. Cast * John Crawford (actor), John Crawford as Kelly * Susan Hampshire as Gunilla * Willoughby Goddard as Schober * Humphrey Lestocq as Bannister * Rory O'Brine as Ruchi Korbanyi * Anne Castaldini as Magda * Margaret Robertson as mother * Bill Nagy as Garity * Lily Kann as old lady * Hana-Maria Pravda as matron * Gisele Burke as Lisel * Sean Sullivan as Burgen Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "Yet another adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Court
Margery Hazel Court (10 February 1926 – 15 April 2008) was an English actress. She is known for her roles in British and American horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s, including Terence Fisher's ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957) and ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'' (1959) for Hammer Film Productions, and three of Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for American International Pictures: ''The Premature Burial'' (1962), ''The Raven'' (1963) and ''The Masque of the Red Death'' (1964). Early life Court was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. Her father, G.W. Court, was a cricketer who played for Durham CCC. She attended Boldmere School and Highclare College, and later studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexandra Theatre. Career At sixteen, Court met film director Anthony Asquith in London; the meeting gained her a brief part in '' Champagne Charlie'' (1944). Court won a British Critics Award for her role as a crippled girl i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |