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Charles Carson (actor)
Charles Carson (16 August 1885 – 5 August 1977) was a British actor. A civil engineer before taking to the stage in 1919, his theatre work included directed plays for ENSA during WWII. Selected filmography * '' The Loves of Ariane'' (1931) – The Professor * '' Dreyfus'' (1931) – Col. Picquart * ''Many Waters'' (1931) – Henry Delauney * '' The Chinese Puzzle'' (1932) – Armand de Rochecorbon * '' Monsieur Albert'' (1932) – Mr. Robertson * '' Men of Tomorrow'' (1932) – Senior Proctor * ''Leap Year'' (1932) – Sir Archibald Mallard * '' There Goes the Bride'' (1932) – M. Marquand (uncredited) * '' Marry Me'' (1932) – Korten * ''The Blarney Stone'' (1933) – Sir Arthur * ''The Shadow'' (1933) – Sir Edward Hulme KC * '' The Perfect Flaw'' (1934) – Henry Kearns * '' Trouble in Store'' (1934, short) – Sanderson * '' Whispering Tongues'' (1934) – Roger Mayland * '' The Broken Melody'' (1934) – Colonel Dubonnet * '' No Escape'' (1934) – Mr. Arnold * '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Escape (1934 Film)
''No Escape'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Ian Hunter, Binnie Barnes and Molly Lamont. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers.Wood p.83 Cast * Ian Hunter as Jim Brandon * Binnie Barnes as Myra Fengler * Ralph Ince as Lucky * Molly Lamont as Helen Arnold * Charles Carson as Mr. Arnold * Philip Strange Philip Strange (4 June 1884 – 5 January 1963) was a British actor. Selected filmography * '' The Ace of Cads'' (1926) * '' Broadway Nights'' (1927) * ''Nevada'' (1927) * ''Wall Street'' (1929) * '' The Unholy Night'' (1929) * ''The Rescue'' (1 ... as Kirk Fengler * Madeline Seymour as Mrs. Arnold * George Merritt as Inspector Matheson References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1934 films British drama films 1934 drama films 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forget Me Not (1936 Film)
''Forget Me Not'' is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner and Ivan Brandt. In the United States, it was released under the alternative title ''Forever Yours''. The film was made at Isleworth Studios. It is a remake of a 1935 German film of the same title and one of four remakes of foreign-language films made by London Films. The film was not generally well-received by critics, although they praised Gigli's singing.Kulik p.181 Plot While travelling with her employer on an ocean liner, secretary Helen Carleton falls in love with a member of the crew. However, on arriving in New York City, his catty ex-girlfriend convinces Helen that he doesn't really love her. On the rebound, she meets Italian opera singer Enzo Curti and accepts his offer of marriage. A year later, she arrives with Enzo and his young son in London as part of a world tour and meets her former lover, who appeals to her to escape with him. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One In A Million (1936 Film)
''One in a Million'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou and Don Ameche. It marked the Hollywood debut of the ice skater Henie. It was the first of a series of Twentieth Century-Fox musicals made by Henie, although she had previously made a silent film in her native Norway. The film features footage from the 1936 Winter Olympic Games. Choreographer Jack Haskell received an Academy Award nomination in Best Dance Direction at the 9th Academy Awards. ''One in a Million'' proved to be one of the highest-grossing films of 1937. Plot American showman Thaddeus Spencer ( Adolphe Menjou) is stuck without money in the Swiss Alps with his wife Billie ( Arline Judge), a girls' band, a comedy trio ( The Ritz Brothers) and a recent harmonica-playing discovery (Borrah Minevitch) when the group learns that the Grand Palace Hotel in Ardetz, where they were to perform, has burned down. Upon seeing Greta Muller ( Sonja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrooge (1935 Film)
''Scrooge'' is a 1935 British Christmas fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic ''A Christmas Carol'', not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage more than 2000 times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. This was the first film to be released by the Twickenham Film Distributors, Ltd., founded by Julius Hagen and Arthur Clavering. Hagen acted as producer for the new company, with Clavering handling film distribution. Stylistically it leans heavily towards German Expressionism and the films of Fritz Lang, involving dark shadows and darkened edges. The script sticks very closely to Dickens' words. There is a colorized version that omits the opening scene in which Scrooge is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Nights (1935 Film)
__NOTOC__ "Moscow Nights" ( rus, Подмосковные вечера, r=Podmoskovnyje večera, ), later covered as "Midnight in Moscow", is a Soviet Russian song. Composition and initial success Composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky wrote the song in 1955 with the title "Leningrad Nights" ( rus, Ленинградские вечера, Leningradskije večera, ), but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the song was renamed "Moscow Nights" and made corresponding changes to the lyrics. In 1956, "Moscow Nights" was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a scene in a documentary about the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's athletic competition Spartakiad in which the athletes rest in '' Podmoskovye'', the Moscow suburbs. The film did nothing to promote the song, but thanks to radio broadcasts it gained popularity. Covers The Dutch jazz group New Orleans Syncopators recorded the arrangement of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul The Damned (film)
''Abdul the Damned'' is a 1935 British drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther and John Stuart. It was made at the British International Pictures studios by Alliance-Capitol Productions. It is set in the Ottoman Empire in the years before the First World War, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the republican Young Turks who dethroned him for power. It is also known as ''Abdul Hamid''. Cast * Fritz Kortner as Sultan Abdul Hamid II / Kelar * Nils Asther as Chief of Police Kadar-Pasha * John Stuart as Captain Talak-Bey * Adrienne Ames as Therese Alder * Esme Percy as Ali - Chief Eunuch * Walter Rilla as Hassan-Bey * Charles Carson as General Hilmi-Pasha * Patric Knowles as Omar - Hilmi's Attache * Eric Portman as Conspirator * Clifford Heatherley as Court Doctor * Henry B. Longhurst as General of the Bodyguards * Annie Esmond as Therese's Train Companion * Harold Saxon-Snell as Chief Interrogator * George Zucco as Officer of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanders Of The River
''Sanders of the River'' is a 1935 British film directed by the Hungarian-British director, Zoltán Korda, based on the stories of Edgar Wallace. It is set in Colonial Nigeria. The lead Nigerian characters were played by African Americans Paul Robeson and Nina Mae McKinney. The film proved a significant commercial and critical success, giving Korda the first of his four nominations for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Plot Sanders (Leslie Banks) is a colonial District Commissioner in the Colonial Nigeria. He tries to administer his province fairly, including the various tribes comprising the Peoples of the River. He is regarded with respect by some and with fear by others, among whom he is referred to as "Sandi" and "Lord Sandi". He has an ally in Bosambo, a literate and educated tribal chief (played by the African American actor, Paul Robeson). When Sanders goes on leave, another chief, King Mofolaba, spreads a rumour that "Sandi is dead." Inter-tribal war seems inevita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Ye Ken John Peel?
''D'Ye Ken John Peel?'' (released in America as ''Captain Moonlight'') is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Henry Edwards and starring John Garrick, Winifred Shotter and Stanley Holloway. It was made at Julius Hagen's Twickenham Studios. It takes its name from the traditional hunting song of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director James A. Carter. Major John Peel returns to England from serving in the Napoleonic Wars to discover that his friend Lucy Merrall is now engaged to be married to local villain Sir Charles Hawksley. Film critic David Parkinson, writing in '' The Radio Times'', gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and called the film a "a crusty old melodrama in the Tod Slaughter tradition", with Leslie Perrins "chewing the scenery with a delicious lack of restraint". He summarised: "This is anything but a lost classic, but there is the chance to see Stanley Holloway as Sam Small, the character he adopted for so many of his famous mono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invitation To The Waltz (film)
''Invitation to the Waltz'' is a 1935 British historical musical film directed by Paul Merzbach and starring Lilian Harvey, Wendy Toye and Carl Esmond. It was based on a play by Eric Maschwitz. Production It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. The film's sets were designed by John Mead and Clarence Elder. Much of the film's score consists of extracts of classical music arranged by Walter Goehr. It was the only film made in Britain by the London-born German star Harvey. Harvey had returned from Hollywood and signed a three-film contract with British International Pictures, but after making only this film she returned to Germany and agreed a new contract with UFA.Bock & Bergfelder p. 51–52 Synopsis In London Jenny, an aspiring ballet dancer, meets an aide to the Duke of Wuerttemberg who is in Britain for a marriage alliance and financial treaty to supply troops to Britain for the war against Napoleon. After being discovered by an Italian impresa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyde Park (1934 Film)
''Hyde Park'' is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Randall Faye and starring George Carney, Barry Clifton and Eve Lister. It follows a socialist who refuses to give permission for his daughter to marry an aristocrat, but changes his mind when he himself comes into money. Main cast * George Carney – Joe Smith * Barry Clifton – Bill Lenbridge * Eve Lister – Mary Smith * Wallace Lupino – Alf Turner * Charles Carlson – Lord Lenbridge * Phyllis Morris – Mrs Smith * Charles Hawtrey References External links * 1934 films Films directed by Randall Faye 1934 comedy films British comedy films British black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films English-language comedy films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
