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Elsie Wagstaff
Elsie Wagstaff (1 July 1899 – 16 July 1985) was an English actress. Educated at the Guildhall School of Music, her stage work began in the chorus in 1919, and one of her first leading roles was as Sadie Thompson in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's ''Rain''. In 1928, she appeared on Broadway in John Van Druten's ''Diversion'', and in Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale's '' The Wrecker''. She also worked sporadically in films, and with some regularity on television. Selected filmography * '' Cotton Queen'' (1937) as Emily (uncredited) * '' John Halifax'' (1938) as Jael * '' Lassie from Lancashire'' (1938) as Aunt Hetty * '' Trouble Brewing'' (1939) as Mrs. Hopkins * '' Crimes at the Dark House'' (1940) as Mrs. Catherick * '' The Dark Tower'' (1943) as Eve * ''Headline'' (1944) as Mrs Daly * '' Welcome, Mr. Washington'' (1944) as Miss Jones * '' Meet Sexton Blake'' (1945) as Mrs. Baird * '' Old Mother Riley at Home'' (1945) as Mrs. Ginochie * ''Appointment with Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leytonstone
Leytonstone ( ) is an area in East London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It adjoins Wanstead to the north-east, Forest Gate to the south-east, Stratford to the south-west, Leyton to the west, and Walthamstow to the north-west, and is north-east of Charing Cross. Historically, it was part of the ancient parish of Leyton in the Becontree hundred of Essex. The first documented evidence of settlement is from the 14th century, describing a hamlet at 'Leyton-atte-stone'; a reference to the Roman milestone located within the area, that formed a northern boundary of the parish. It remained largely rural until the 19th century, becoming part of the London postal district in 1856, the same year its railway station was opened (now on the Central line). When Greater London was created in 1965, the Municipal Borough of Leyton merged with Chingford and Walthamstow to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest. At the northern end of Leytonstone High Road is The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (1943 Film)
''The Dark Tower'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by John Harlow (director), John Harlow starring Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar (actor), David Farrar and Herbert Lom. The film marked Herbert Lom's first major film role. Plot Stephen Torg seeks work at a struggling travelling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton, the head of the circus, is so impressed, he hires the newcomer. Then someone comes up with an idea. Torg hypnotises Mary so that she can perform a dangerous aerial stunt without props. Her partner and boyfriend, Tom Danton is suspicious, but is overruled by the others. With Torg's help, the circus becomes very successful, and Torg is able to force Phil into making him a partner. Meanwhile, Torg falls in love with Mary, though she makes it clear to him that her heart belongs to Tom. As time goes on, Torg begins to exert control over Mary. Before one performance, he tells her under hypnos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snake Woman
''The Snake Woman'' (also released as ''The Terror of the Snake Woman'') is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay by Orville H. Hampton, and starring Susan Travers, John McCarthy, Geoffrey Denton, Elsie Wagstaff, Arnold Marlé and John Cazabon. The film is set in a small Northumbrian village at the turn of the 20th century. It tells the story of Atheris, a young woman who has the power to transform from human to cobra, and the Scotland Yard detective sent to investigate a series of deaths, unusual because all the victims died after being bitten by snakes that are not native to the UK. ''The Snake Woman'' distributed by United Artists. It premiered in the United States on April 26, 1961, on a double bill with '' Doctor Blood's Coffin'', which was produced at the same time and shares much of the same crew. Plot In the tiny Northumbrian village of Bellingham in 1890, herpetologist Dr. Horace Adderson has successfully been keeping his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (film)
''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay. The plot concerns a young teddy boy machinist, Arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman. The film is one of a series of " kitchen sink drama" films made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of the British New Wave of filmmaking, from directors such as Reisz, Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger, and Tony Richardson, and adapted from the works of writers such as Sillitoe, John Braine, and John Osborne. A common trope in these films is the working-class " angry young man" character (in this case, the character of Arthur), who rebels against the oppressive social and economic systems established by previous generations. In 1999, the British Film Institute named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnacle Bill (1957 Film)
''Barnacle Bill'' (U.S. title: ''All at Sea'') is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Alec Guinness. It was written by T. E. B. Clarke. Guinness plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer and six of his maritime ancestors. This was the final Ealing comedy (although some sources list '' Davy'' (1958) as the last), and the last film Guinness made for Ealing Studios. Plot William Horatio Ambrose wants desperately to live up to the proud family naval tradition. Ambrose has a debilitating problem however: he suffers from violent seasickness. As a result, his contribution to the Second World War consists of testing cures for the malady. When he retires from the Royal Navy, he purchases a dilapidated late Victorian era amusement pier (the closest thing to a command of his own) with his life savings. The workers are an apathetic bunch, led by the insolent Figg, who quits as soon as the new owner begins imposing some discipline. With the assistance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Pay Your Money
''You Pay Your Money'' is a 1957 British 'B' crime drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton and Honor Blackman. It was written by Michael Cronin and Rogers. Plot On a visit to Belgium, married couple Bob and Susie Westlake become involved with wealthy financier, Steve Mordaunt, in the sale and transfer of a collection of rare books. In an attempted burglary at Mordaunt's home, his love interest, Mrs. Rosemary Delgado, is suspected. She was once romantically linked to a gangster and she leads the Westlakes in a search for Achemd's writings, a middle eastern 14th Century seer which has inspired an extreme political group, and thought to be in the collection of rare books that Mourdaunt now owns. The Westlakes become embroiled in a struggle over the valuable Arabic manuscripts, and when Susie is kidnapped by extremists, Bob works as an assistant to Tom Cookson, a manuscript smuggler who is importing the rare texts the gang are seeking. The e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of The Affair (1955 Film)
''The End of the Affair'' is a 1955 British-American drama romance film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on Graham Greene's 1951 novel of the same name. The film stars Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills and Peter Cushing. It was filmed largely on location in London, particularly in and around Chester Terrace. The film was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Writer Maurice Bendrix settles in London in 1943-44 after being wounded in the war. His affair with Sarah Miles, wife of civil servant Henry Miles, "grows into a deep and abiding passion." Maurice becomes jealous. He wants to marry, but she won't leave Henry, yet. The apartment Maurice lives in is hit by a buzz bomb. He revives, pulls himself from rubble to find Sarah kneeling on the floor of his room. As she tends to his wounds, he asks why she was kneeling. She says she was praying and was certain he was dead. She stares at him, her face wet with tears, then leaves abruptly. He runs after her to find t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight O'Clock Walk
''Eight O'Clock Walk'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr and Maurice Denham. Based on a true story, ''Eight O'Clock Walk'' is an anti-capital punishment film (the title refers to the hour at which executions were traditionally carried out, though in London (where the film is set) executions were carried out at 9 am) that points out the danger of circumstantial evidence resulting in the death of a mistakenly accused prisoner. Plot Just-married taxi driver Tom Manning is led to an abandoned bombsite by eight-year-old Irene, who says she has lost her doll. She then runs off, taunting Manning as an April-fool prank. He stumbles and raises a fist at her in exasperation, witnessed by local resident Mrs Zunz. Irene is later found murdered on the bomb-site, strangled as she sang "Oranges and Lemons" while feeding the ducks. Manning is picked up by Scotland Yard for questioning and later arrested and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia (1949 Film)
''Celia'' (also known as ''Celia'' ''– The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora'') is a 1949 British comedy-thriller B movie, second feature ('B') film directed by Francis Searle and starring Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester and John Bailey (British actor), John Bailey. It was written by A.R. Rawlinson and Searle, with additional dialogue by Roy Plomley, and was based on the 1948 BBC radio serial of the same title by Edward J. Mason. It was made by Hammer Films. Plot Celia, an unemployed actress, is reluctantly persuaded by Private Detective Larry to once again help him with a case. She has a flair for undertaking character rôles but mainly agrees so she can buy a fashionable hat with the fee Larry offers to pay her. Celia poses as a cockney housekeeper for a week in a large house where a man named Lester is suspected of marrying Aunt Nora, a much older woman, for her money and plans to kill her with poison. Lester falls victim himself to the death trap he sets for the old lady. When Celi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Interrupted Journey
''The Interrupted Journey'' is a 1949 British thriller film directed by Daniel Birt and starring Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden and Tom Walls. It was written by Michael Pertwee. Plot John North, a struggling writer, plans to elope with his mistress, Susan Wilding, following an incidental quarrel that morning with his wife Carol who is frustrated that her husband refuses employment offered by her father, considering their perilous finances. After meeting Susan in London, he suspects they are being followed both in the street and at the railway cafe where they have a cup of tea, though Susan is dismissive of his concerns. Once they are on the train, he cannot rid himself of his unease as they sit discussing their new life together. John is guilt-ridden while recollecting the quarrel and feels affection for his wife. Seeing Susan is asleep, he goes out into the corridor, and again thinks he sees the man he believes has been following them. At this point, John h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appointment With Crime
''Appointment with Crime'' is a 1946 British crime film directed and written by John Harlow (director), John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Joyce Howard and Robert Beatty. Plot Leo Martin works for a criminal gang run by Gus Loman that primarily uses a smash and grab tactic. During one particular risky robbery heist, Leo breaks the window at a jewellery store only to have his wrists broken by a security shutter falling on them. He is soon caught and brought to prison to serve his term. Throughout his stay, Leo does not reveal who he is working for to the authorities but instead serves his time, angered by Gus for running out on him during the robbery. When Leo is released, he returns to Gus to obtain a job. Gus harshly rebuffs him and points out how Leo's injured wrists would prevent him from working as a thief. This leads Leo to seek complete vengeance against Gus. He decides to frame Gus for murder by stealing his gun and murdering the getaway driver (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Mother Riley At Home
''Old Mother Riley at Home'' is a 1945 British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Freddie Forbes. It is the 11th film in the long-running Old Mother Riley series. Plot summary Mother Riley's daughter Kitty has run off with her new and (so says Mother Riley), "no good" boyfriend. With the aid of Kitty's true love Dan, Mother Riley tracks the runaways and discovers them in a gambling den. Cast * Arthur Lucan - Mrs Riley * Kitty McShane - Kitty Riley * Freddie Forbes - Mr Bumpton * Richard George - Dan * Willer Neal - Bill * Wally Patch - Bouncer * Kenneth Warrington - Boss * Angela Barrie - Duchess * Janet Morriso - Mary * Elsie Wagstaff - Mrs. Ginochie * Henry B. Longhurst - Commissionaire Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
