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Vernon Downing
Vernon Downing (1913–1973) was a British people, British actor who appeared in many Hollywood films between 1934 and 1954, generally playing English characters. Filmography References External links * 1913 births 1973 deaths English male film actors Male actors from Suffolk 20th-century English male actors British expatriate male actors in the United States {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking inhabitants of Great Britain during the British Iron Age, Iron Age, whose descendants formed the major part of the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, Bretons and considerable proportions of English people. It also refers to those British subjects born in parts of the former British Empire that are now independent countries who settled in the United Kingdom prior to 1973. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Sea Raider
''Mystery Sea Raider'' is a 1940 American drama war film directed by Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s films noir, noir films and received an Academy Award for Best Director, Oscar nomination for Best Director for ... and starring Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon and Onslow Stevens. Plot A woman ( Carole Landis) and a U.S. captain ( Henry Wilcoxon) foil a German spy's ( Onslow Stevens) plan to use their freighter to sink a British ship. Cast * Carole Landis as June McCarthy * Henry Wilcoxon as Captain Jimmy Madden * Onslow Stevens as Carl Cutler * Kathleen Howard as Maggie Clancy * Wally Rairden as Blake, 3rd Mate (as Wallace Rairdon) * Sven Hugo Borg as Sven * Henry Victor as Cmdr. Bulow * Roland Varno as Lt. Schmidt * Louis Adlon as Lerner * Willy Kaufman as Lt. Felder * Monte Blue as Captain Norberg * Matthew Boulton as Captain Howard * Gohr Van V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloak And Dagger (1946 Film)
''Cloak and Dagger'' is a 1946 American spy film directed by Fritz Lang which stars Gary Cooper as an American scientist sent by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to contact European scientists working on the German nuclear weapons program and Lilli Palmer as a member of the Italian resistance movement who shelters and guides him. The story was drawn from the 1946 non-fiction book ''Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of O.S.S.'' by Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain, while a former OSS agent E. Michael Burke acted as technical advisor. Like '' 13 Rue Madeleine'' (1947), the film was intended as a tribute to Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operations in German-occupied Europe during World War II. Plot In 1944, a handsome bachelor and nuclear physicist named Alvah Jesper is working in the United States on the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb. Recruited into the Office of Strategic Services, his mission is to make contact with a Hungarian nuclear physicist, Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Of Their Lives
''The Time of Their Lives'' is a 1946 American fantasy comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedic duo Abbott and Costello alongside Marjorie Reynolds, Gale Sondergaard and Binnie Barnes. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot In 1780, master tinker Horatio Prim arrives at the Kings Point estate of Tom Danbury. Although Horatio has failed to raise enough money to buy Danbury's housemaid, Nora O'Leary out of indentured servitude, he carries a letter of commendation from Gen. George Washington George Washington (, 1799) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot (American Revoluti ... that he hopes will persuade Danbury to let them marry. Unfortunately, Horatio has a romantic rival in Danbury's devious butler, Cuthbert Greenway, who tries to prevent Horatio from presenting his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Man's Navy
''This Man's Navy'' (aka ''Airship Squadron No. 4.'' and ''Lighter Than Air'') is a 1945 World War II film about U.S. Navy blimps directed by William A. Wellman and starring Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, Jan Clayton and James Gleason. The supporting cast features Selena Royle and Beery's brother Noah Beery Sr., and presents a rare opportunity to see both Beery brothers work together in their later years. The picture is also one of the very few films, other than training films, to depict U.S. Navy airship operations.Hardwick and Schnepf 1989, p. 62. Plot During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is the commander of a U.S. Navy K class blimp at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. "Old Gas Bag", who has a reputation for telling tall tales, brags about his fictional son to his skeptical friend Jimmy Shannon ( James Gleason) and, then realizes that he will need to find someone to impersonate his "son". By chance, Trumpet soon meets Jess Weaver ( Tom Drake) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canterville Ghost (1944 Film)
''The Canterville Ghost'' is a 1944 fantasy/comedy film directed by Jules Dassin, loosely based on the 1887 short story of the same title by Oscar Wilde. It starred Charles Laughton as a ghost doomed to haunt an English castle, and Robert Young as his distant American relative called upon to perform an act of bravery to redeem him. It was remade as a TV movie of the same title in 1986 and again in 1996. Plot In the seventeenth century, Sir Simon de Canterville (Charles Laughton) is forced by the Code of Chivalry to engage in a duel on behalf of his brother, but flees to the family castle when his opponent engages a substitute—a giant, the Bold Sir Guy (played by an uncredited Tor Johnson). His proud father, Lord Canterville ( Reginald Owen), refuses to acknowledge that his son has disgraced the family name, even when shown in front of witnesses where Simon is cowering. The father has the only entrance to his son's hiding place bricked over as proof that Simon is not ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Cliffs Of Dover (1944 Film)
''The White Cliffs of Dover'' is a 1944 American war drama film based on the verse novel ''The White Cliffs'' by Alice Duer Miller. It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was by Claudine West, and George Froeschel, with the credit for additional poetry by Robert Nathan. Nathan stated in an interview that he wrote the screenplay as his first work as a contracted writer for MGM but the studio credited Claudine West who died in 1943 as a tribute to her."Robert Nathan interview" in Davis, Ronald L. ''Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System'' Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2007. p.42 During the 17th Academy Awards for films of 1944, it was nominated for Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) for George Folsey. The award, however, went to Joseph LaShelle for the film Laura. Plot At the height of World War II, American-born Susan, Lady Ashwood, (Irene Dunne) is a nurse in a Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Guy Named Joe
''A Guy Named Joe'' is a 1943 American supernatural romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin and stars Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, was adapted from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story. The film is notable as Johnson's first major role and also as the production during which he sustained serious head injuries in an automobile accident. It also features the popular song " I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" by Fred Ahlert and Roy Turk, performed in the film by Irene Dunne. Despite the film's title, it contains no characters named Joe. The use of the generic name to symbolize any military pilot is attributed to military aviator Claire Lee Chennault. Steven Spielberg's 1989 film '' Always'' is a remake of ''A Guy Named Joe'' and exchanges the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spider Woman
''The Spider Woman'' (alternatively titled ''Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman'' and ''Spider Woman'') is a 1943 mystery film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in. As with all of the Universal Studios films in the series, the film is set in then-present day as opposed to the Victorian setting of the original stories. This film incorporates elements from the 1890 novel ''The Sign of the Four'', as well as the short stories " The Final Problem", " The Adventure of the Empty House", " The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and makes explicit reference to " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot". Alan Barnes, ''Sherlock Holmes On Screen: The Complete Film and TV History'', Titan Books, Third Edition, January 31, 2012, , page 268 Plot Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in Scotland in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides that he is convinced are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corvette K-225
''Corvette K-225'' is a 1943 American war film starring Randolph Scott and James Brown, with Ella Raines making her feature film debut. Directed by Richard Rosson, the film was released in the UK as ''The Nelson Touch''. Robert Mitchum, credited as Bob Mitchum, had a minor supporting role, one of 20 Hollywood films he made in 1943. Tony Gaudio was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for Best Cinematography (B&W) for his work on ''Corvette K -225''. Plot In 1943 at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the Royal Canadian Navy Lieutenant Commander MacClain has just lost his ship and most of his crewmen due to enemy action. While accompanying a convoy, he was attacked by a U-boat with a distinctive large Iron Cross painted on the conning tower. The U-boat surfaced and machine-gunned many of the survivors. Offered duty ashore, MacClain is determined to avenge his men. He is allocated a new ship and while waiting for it to be built befriends Joyce Cartwright, whose brother D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
''Sherlock Holmes Faces Death'' is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1893 Holmes short story " The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual". Its three immediate predecessors in the film series were World War II spy adventures with Holmes and Dr. Watson helping the Allies thwart enemy agents, but this one marked a return to the pure mystery film form. Though several characters are military men and there are frequent mentions of the ongoing war, it is not the focus of the story. This was the second of three Holmes films in which Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Hillary Brooke appeared together. The first was '' Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror'' in 1942 and the third was ''The Woman in Green'' in 1945. Plot Dr. Watson is working as resident physician at Musgrave Manor in Northumberland, a stately home which is also used as a hospital for a number of servicemen su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wife Takes A Flyer
''The Wife Takes a Flyer'' (aka ''Highly Irregular'', UK title: ''A Yank in Dutch'') is a 1942 romantic comedy film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard Wallace. The film stars Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone. The screenplay of ''The Wife Takes a Flyer'' was written by Jay Dratler, Gina Kaus and Harry Segall. The film's music score is by Werner R. Heymann. Plot At Nazi headquarters in occupied Holland, Major Zellfritz assigned to find a downed British pilot, becomes sidetracked by Anita Woverman. He demands that the Wovermans billet him and his men at her house. Upstairs, the butler, Jan, is hiding the escaped pilot, Christopher Reynolds. When a group of stormtroopers arrives, Mrs. Woverman learns of Reynolds' presence, but claims he is her son Hendrik. She runs a home for spinsters in the area while her husband is institutionalized as mad. Reynolds decides to protect Anita from Zellfritz's amorous advances. An arrangement to meet a contact at the Savoy Café requi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
