|
Hamilton Keene
Hamilton George Keene (15 November 1896 – 4 October 1975) was a British stage actor, stage and film actor.Edwards p.188 He appeared in more than thirty British films, originally in more prominent roles during the early 1930s and later in smaller, often uncredited parts. They included: The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937 film), ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1937), It's Not Cricket (1949 film), ''It's Not Cricket'' (1949), ''Burnt Evidence'' (1964) and nearly thirty others. Selected filmography * ''Lost Patrol (1929 film), Lost Patrol'' (1929) * ''The Middle Watch (1930 film), The Middle Watch'' (1930) * ''Suspense (1930 film), Suspense'' (1930) * ''The New Hotel'' (1932) * ''Illegal (1932 film), Illegal'' (1932) * ''Leave It to Blanche'' (1934) * ''The Blue Squadron (1934 film), The Blue Squadron'' (1934) * ''The Office Wife (1934 film), The Office Wife'' (1934) * ''Little Stranger (film), Little Stranger'' (1934) * ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937 film), The Mutiny of the Elsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsize Park to the south and is surrounded from the northeast by Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. Hampstead is known for its intellectual, artistic, liberal, and literary associations. It contains a number of listed buildings, such as Burgh House, Kenwood House, the Spaniard's Inn, and the Everyman cinema. With some of the most expensive housing in London, Hampstead has had many notable residents, both past and present, including King Constantine II of Greece and his wife Queen Anne Marie, Helena Bonham Carter, Agatha Christie, T. S. Eliot, Jon English, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais, Jim Henson, George Orwell, Harry Styles and Elizabeth Taylor. As of 2004, Hampstead has been home to more Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains O'Mourne
''Mountains O'Mourne'' is a 1938 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Rene Ray, Niall MacGinnis and Jerry Verno. It was shot at Walton Studios near London.Wood p.99 The film's sets were designed by the art director R. Holmes Paul. The title is a reference to the song '' The Mountains of Mourne'', a common theme from films produced by Butcher's Film Service. The screenplay concerns two Irish families evicted from their properties. Plot summary Two Irish families are evicted from their properties, but their children raise the money to regain them. Partial Cast * Rene Ray as Mary Macree * Niall MacGinnis as Paddy Kelly * Jerry Verno as Dip Evans * Betty Ann Davies as Violet Mayfair * Charles Oliver as Errol Finnegan * Hamilton Keene as O'Rourke * Kaye Seeley as Peter O'Loughlin * Maire O'Neill Maire O'Neill (born Mary Agnes Allgood; 11 January 1886 – 2 November 1952) was an Irish actress of stage and film. She holds a place in theatre hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Births
Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type of electromagnetic radiation, later known as X-rays. * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 16 – Devonport High School for Boys is founded in Plymouth (England). * January 17 – Anglo-Ashanti wars#Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British British Army, redcoats enter the Ashanti people, Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Cargo (1954 Film)
''Forbidden Cargo'' is a 1954 British crime film directed by Harold French and starring Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars and Jack Warner. It was written by Sydney Box. Plot A customs officer captures a gang of drugs smugglers, assisted by a birdwatcher. Cast * Nigel Patrick as Inspector Michael Kenyon * Elizabeth Sellars as Rita Compton * Terence Morgan as Roger Compton * Greta Gynt as Madame Simonetta * Jack Warner as Major Alec White * Theodore Bikel Theodore Meir Bikel ( ; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He made his stage debut in '' Tevye the Milkman'' in Mandatory Palestine, where he lived as ... as Max * Joyce Grenfell as Lady Flavia Queensway * James Gilbert as Agent Larkins * Eric Pohlmann as Steven Lasovich * Martin Boddey as Sub-Director Holt * Michael Hordern as Director of Customs * Jacques B. Brunius as Det. Pierre Valance * Ronald Adam (act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Jest
''The Devil's Jest'' is a 1954 British second feature ('B') film directed by Alfred Goulding and starring Mara Tavernan, Ivan Craig and Valentine Dyall. It was written by Vance Youdan (credited as Vance Uhden), and is a remake of '' Castle Sinister'' (1948). Plot In a remote castle during the Second World War, Irma, Lady Enderby recognises Major Seton, her ex-lover and father of her son. When he is exposed as a German spy, she attempts to protect him, and they flee together in a U-boat. Cast * Mara Tavernan as Irma, Lady Enderby * Ivan Craig as Major Seton * Valentine Dyall as Director of Military Intelligence * Derek Aylewood as Victor * Julian Sherrier as Tony * Lee Fox as Major Malcolm * Hamilton Keene as Colonel Mortimer * Edward Leslie as Captain Blynne Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "The frail, pretentious and confused story ... is not helped by stolidly unimaginative direction, nor by extremely indifferent use of music and sound. The only inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innocents In Paris
''Innocents in Paris'' is a 1953 British-French international co-production comedy film produced by Romulus Films, directed by Gordon Parry and starring Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, and Jimmy Edwards, and also featuring James Copeland. Popular French comedy actor Louis de Funès appears as a taxi driver, and there are cameo appearances by Christopher Lee, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth Williams. The writer and producer was Anatole de Grunwald, born in Russia in 1910, who fled to Britain with his parents in 1917. He had a long career there as a writer and producer, including the films '' The Way to the Stars'', ''The Winslow Boy'', ''Doctor's Dilemma'', ''Libel'', and ''The Yellow Rolls-Royce''. Plot The film is a romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying out from The London Airport for a weekend in Paris in 1953 in a British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador. An English diplomat (Sim) is on a working trip to obtain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tread Softly (1952 Film)
''Tread Softly'' is a 1952 British second feature ('B') crime film with musical overtones, directed by David MacDonald and starring Frances Day, Patricia Dainton and John Bentley. It was written by Gerald Verner based on his novel ''The Show Must Go On''. A chorus girl investigates a series of mysterious happenings at a derelict theatre. Plot Set in a theatre the film combines light musical numbers with a murder crime story. It includes several elaborate dance routines. Cast * Frances Day as Madeleine Peters * Patricia Dainton as Tangye Ward * John Bentley as Keith Gilbert * John Laurie as Angus McDonald * Olaf Olsen as Philip Defoe * Nora Nicholson as Isobel Mayne * Harry Locke as Nutty Potts * Betty Baskcomb as Olivia Winter * Robert Urquhart as Clifford Brett * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Inspector Hinton * Michael Ward as Alexander Mayne * Nelly Arno * Hamilton Keene * Betty Hare * Colin Croft as dancer * Kenneth MacMillan as dancer * Kei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night And The City
''Night and the City'' is a 1950 British film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. Shot on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, the plot revolves around an ambitious hustler who meets continual failures. Dassin later confessed that he had never read the novel upon which the film is based. In an interview appearing on The Criterion Collection DVD release, Dassin recalls that the casting of Tierney was in response to a request by Darryl Zanuck, who was concerned that personal problems had rendered the actress "suicidal" and hoped that work would improve her state of mind. The film's British version was five minutes longer, with a more upbeat ending and featuring a completely different film score. Dassin endorsed the American version as closer to his vision. The film contains a very tough and prolonged fight scene between Stanislaus Zbyszko, a celeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Mate
''The Second Mate'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by John Baxter and starring Gordon Harker, Graham Moffatt and David Hannaford. It was written by Anson Dyer, Barbara K. Emary, Jack Francis and Geoffrey Orme It was made at Southall Studios. Cast * Gordon Harker as Bill Tomkins * Graham Moffatt as Paddy * David Hannaford as Bobby * Beryl Walkeley as Kate * Charles Sewell as Joe * Anne Blake as fortune teller * Charles Heslop as Hogan * Jane Welsh as Mrs. Mead * Howard Douglas as Dusty * Pauline Drewett as Pauline * Tom Fallon as police officer * Hamilton Keene as Bishop *Pat Keogh as Spike * Sam Kydd as Wheeler * Johnnie Schofield Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "''The Second Mate'' is an economically made comedy thriller, designed to introduce the comedy team of Gordon Harker, Graham Moffat and David Hannaford, and made partly on Thames-side locations. The intention is commendable but ''The Second Mate'', unfortunately, suffers from ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trial Of Madame X
''The Trial of Madame X'', also known as ''Jacqueline'', is a 1948 British drama film written and directed by Paul England and starring England and Mara Russell-Tavernan. It was written by England based (uncredited) on the 1908 play ''Madame X'' by the French playwright Alexandre Bisson. The film was made in 1948 but not released until 1955. Plot A woman is thrown out of her home by her jealous husband and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not know who she is. He finds himself defending her without knowing her background. Cast * Mara Russell-Tavernan (credited as Mary Taviner) as Jacqueline * Paul England as Edouard Perrisard * Frank Hawkins as Jean Laroque * Eddie Leslie as Raymond Floriot * Hamilton Deane as Noel Callier * Hamilton Keene as Louis Floriot * Jean Le Roy as Madeleine * Natalie Raine (also credited as Natalie Rayne) as Julie, the receptionist Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Turn To You
''I'll Turn to You'' is a 1946 British drama film directed by Geoffrey Faithfull and starring Terry Randall, Don Stannard and Harry Welchman. A returning serviceman faces problems with his wife and his job. Although not a musical, the film has a lengthy concert segment at the end that allows the title song to wrap up the narrative. Plot Ex-pilot Roger Meredith returns to his wife Aileen, and to his pre-war job in an advertising agency, but finds settilng back into civilian life difficult. Despite an offer of a luxury apartment from Henry Browning, Aileen's rich admirer, Aileen prefers independence and instead finds dilapidated rooms for the family. Roger hates their low standard of living. He loses faith in himself, quits his job and leaves Aileen and their young child. Later Henry bumps into Roger, who is now a hotel porter, and persuades him to return to Aileen. They are reconciled. Cast * Terry Randall as Aileen Meredith * Don Stannard as Roger Meredith * Harry Welchman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
