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Roy Kellino
Roy Kellino (born Philip Roy Gislingham; 22 April 1912 – 18 November 1956) was an English film director, producer and cinematographer. Biography He was born Philip Roy Gislingham in Lambeth, South London, the son of the silent-era director W.P. Kellino. He directed his first film '' Concerning Mr. Martin'' in 1937. He worked primarily in the years during the Second World War, venturing into television in the 1950s, directing many episodes of popular anthology series ''Four Star Playhouse'', along with episodes of other anthologies like '' The Star and the Story''. Kellino was married to actress Pamela Kellino from 1932 to 1940. She then married actor James Mason and took his last name. Meanwhile, Kellino married '' Leave It to Beaver'' actress Barbara Billingsley. Their marriage lasted 3 years until his death in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography Director * '' Concerning Mr. Martin'' (1937) * '' The Last Adventurers'' (1937) * '' Father O'Nine'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father O'Nine
''Father O'Nine'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Hal Gordon, Dorothy Dewhurst and Claire Arnold. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox.Wood p.98 The film's sets were designed by the art director Carmen Dillon. Cast * Hal Gordon as Eddie Mills * Dorothy Dewhurst Dorothy Irene de Singleton Dewhurst (1886 – 12 December 1959) was an English stage and film actress. Born in 1886 in Sale, Cheshire, England, she was married to the actor George Bernard Copping, who predeceased her. She died on 12 December 1959 ... as Mill Wilson * Claire Arnold as Miss Pip * Jimmy Godden as Colonel Briggs * Denis Cowles as Blenkinsop * Joe Monkhouse as Albert References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1938 films British comedy fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convoy (1940 Film)
''Convoy'' is a 1940 British war film, produced by Ealing Studios, directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Clive Brook, John Clements and Edward Chapman. ''Convoy'' was Tennyson's last film before he was killed in an aircraft crash, while serving in the Royal Navy. Plot A Royal Navy cruiser, ''HMS Apollo'' commanded by Lt. Tom Armitage ( Clive Brook) returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. Supplemented with a new first officer, Lieutenant Cranford ( John Clements) who turns out to have caused the captain's divorce a few years earlier, they are sent to meet a convoy in the North Sea and escort it safely into British coastal waters. One stubborn freighter captain from the SS ''Seaflower'', who has a cargo hold full of Polish refugees, mainly Jews, lags the main convoy and is stopped by a U-boat. At first they bluff their way past claiming to be a neutral ship. However they are tailed by the U-boat as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Plus Ten (film)
''Kate Plus Ten'' is a 1938 British thriller film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin and Noel Madison. It was adapted from the Edgar Wallace novel '' Kate Plus Ten''. It was also released as ''Queen of Crime''. Production The film was an independent production shot at Shepperton Studios. The final third of the film makes extensive use of railway locations. Among these, the main line between Bath and Westbury (Wiltshire) was employed, with a stolen train smashing through fake level crossing gates at Freshford station. The branch line through Limpley Stoke and Camerton was also featured, and a closed colliery in the Somerset coalfield was the location for the scene in which a steam locomotive crashes through wooden shed doors. Plot summary Kate, the leader of a gang of criminals, works as secretary to an aristocrat allowing her to pick up vital information. However, the police soon become suspicious of her and Scotland Yard's Inspector Pemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calling All Ma's
''Calling All Ma's'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Redd Davis and starring Billy Caryll, Hilda Mundy and Margaret Yarde. A henpecked husband attempts to escape from his domineering wife. The film was made at Wembley Studios by 20th Century Fox's British subsidiary, for release as a quota quickie.Wood p.89 Cast * Billy Caryll as Billy Smith * Hilda Mundy as Hilda Smith * Margaret Yarde Margaret Yarde (2 April 1878 – 11 March 1944) was a British actress. Initially training to be an opera singer, she made her London stage debut in 1907. She often played domestics, landladies and mothers. Filmography * '' A Cigarette-Maker's ... as Ma-in-Law * Anthony Shaw as Arthur Parkins * Julian Vedey as Italian * Charles Castella as Barman References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aren't Men Beasts!
''Aren't Men Beasts!'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Billy Milton. Premise A number of people try to prevent a man getting married. Cast * Robertson Hare as Herbert Holly * Alfred Drayton as Thomas Potter * Billy Milton as Roger Holly * June Clyde as Marie * Kathleen Harrison as Annie * Ruth Maitland as Selina Potter * Ellen Pollock as Vamp * Frank Royde as Policeman * Amy Veness as Mrs. Flower * Victor Stanley as Harry Harper * Charles Mortimer as Detective * Frederick Morant as George Deck * Anne Boyd as Louise Baker * Judy Kelly as Yvette Bingham Production The film was based on a play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine. It was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures.Wood p.89 John Mead worked on the film as art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm In The Air
''Rhythm in the Air'' is a 1936 British comedy dance film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring husband and wife dance partnership American Jack Donohue and Norwegian Tutta Rolf. The film was a quota quickie production, written by Donohue in collaboration with Vina de Vesci, and was reportedly largely autobiographical, as the events in the film closely mirrored Donohue own experience of coming to be a dancer. Plot Jack Donovan (Donohue), a riveter working on the construction of a high-rise building, is distracted from his work by spying through a nearby window on a lissom young woman Mary (Rolf) as she rehearses her tap-dancing routines. When she finishes, he pauses to give the unsuspecting Mary an ovation of cheers and wolf-whistles, but in the process loses his balance and falls to the ground, breaking both ankles. The sympathetic Mary, who witnessed his fall, later visits him in hospital. Finding him very attractive, she claims that as his bones start to mend, tap-dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pot Luck (1936 Film)
''Pot Luck'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. The screenplay is by Ben Travers based loosely on his 1930 stage play '' A Night Like This''. It also featured Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill and Martita Hunt. The cast included members of the regular Aldwych Farce company. Plot A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures. His investigation takes him to the home of the innocent Mr Pye (Robertson Hare), whose house has been used by the crooks to hide their proceeds. Cast * Tom Walls as Inspector Patrick Fitzpatrick * Ralph Lynn as Reggie Bathbrick * Diana Churchill as Jane Bathbrick * Robertson Hare as Mr Pye * Peter Gawthorne as Chief Constable * Gordon James as Cream (the butler) * Martita Hunt as Mrs Cream (the cook) * J.A. O'Rourke as Kelly * Cyril Smith as Miller Criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Group
* ''Wedding Group'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Alex Bryce and Campbell Gullan and starring Fay Compton, Patric Knowles and Barbara Greene. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie. The film was released in the US under the title ''Wrath of Jealousy''. Cast * Fay Compton as Florence Nightingale * Patric Knowles as Robert Smith * Barbara Greene as Janet Graham * Alastair Sim as Angus Graham * Bruce Seton as Dr. Jock Carnegie * Ethel Glendinning as Margaret Graham * Arthur Young as Dr. Granger * Naomi Plaskitt as Jessie, the Maid * David Hutcheson as George Harkness * Michael Wilding as Dr. Hutherford * Derek Blomfield * Polly Emery Polly Emery (10 May 1875 – 31 October 1958) was an English actress of both silent and talking pictures. , ftvd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Affaires
''Foreign Affaires'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also features Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Norma Varden and Cecil Parker. The screenplay is by Ben Travers, and the cast included cast members from the Walls and Travers Aldwych Farces. Plot The film is set on the French Riviera where two hard-living British spongers become mixed up in illegal gambling. Cast * Tom Walls as Captain Archibald Gore * Ralph Lynn as Jefferson Darby * Robertson Hare as Mr Hardy Hornett * Norma Varden as Mrs Hardy Hornett * Marie Lohr as Mrs Cope * Diana Churchill as Sophie * Cecil Parker as Lord Wormington * Kathleen Kelly as Millicent * Gordon James as Rope * Ivor Barnard as Count * Mervyn Johns as Courtroom interpreter * Basil Radford as Basil Mallory * Martita Hunt Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silken Affair
''The Silken Affair'' is a 1956 British romantic comedy film directed by Roy Kellino and starring David Niven, Geneviève Page, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joan Sims, Irene Handl and Ronald Squire. The screenplay concerns an accountant who is creative with his firm's books and uses the money to fund a romantic spree. Cast * David Niven as Roger Tweakham * Geneviève Page as Genevieve Gerard * Ronald Squire as Marberry * Beatrice Straight as Theora * Wilfrid Hyde-White as Sir Horace Hogg * Howard Marion-Crawford as Baggott * Dorothy Alison as Mrs. Tweakham * Miles Malleson as Mr. Blucher * Richard Wattis as Worthington * Joan Sims as Lady Barber * Irene Handl as Receptionist * Charles Carson as Judge * Harry Locke as Tobacconist * Martin Boddey as Detective Critical reception In the ''Radio Times'', David McGillivray called it a "frivolous romantic comedy," in which, "the theme was exploited much more effectively 20 years later in Jonathan Demme's '' Something Wild''", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charade (1953 Film)
''Charade'' is a 1953 black and white American anthology film directed by Roy Kellino. It consists of a trio of short stories introduced by and starring James Mason and his wife Pamela. Plot In "Portrait of a Murderer," a cynical young artist (Pamela Mason) absentmindedly sketches her neighbour (James Mason) who, unbeknownst to her, is a murderer. In "Duel at Dawn," in 1880s Austria, two officers (Mason and Scott Forbes) fight a duel for the love of a Baroness (Pamela Mason). In "The Midas Touch," Jonah Watson (James Mason), a successful businessman in New York, is dissatisfied with his life, and moves to England to start again. Working as a servant, he falls in love with Lilly (Pamela Mason), a cockney maid, who dreams of bettering herself. Cast * James Mason as The Murderer / Maj. Linden / Jonah Watson * Pamela Mason as The Artist / Pamela / Baroness Tanslan / Lilly * Scott Forbes as Capt. Stamm * Paul Cavanagh as Col. Heisler * Bruce Lester as Capt. van Buren * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
