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Harold Goldblatt
Harold Goldblatt (born Israel Goldblatt, 5 July 1899 – 22 March 1982) was a British actor, theatre director and theatre producer, born in Manchester, but mostly raised in Belfast. Goldblatt was born in Manchester, England, to Russian Jewish parents, and subsequently moved with his family to Belfast, where he grew up. He married Leah (Lillie) Rosenzweig. They had two children, a daughter Joan, and a son Ivan. He founded the Jewish Institute Dramatic Society, and remained a prominent member after their merger with the Northern Ireland Players and the Ulster Theatre in 1940 to form the Group Theatre. He left the Group Theatre in 1959, and in 1963 he formed the Ulster Theatre Company, which included a number of former Group members. In the 1950s, Goldblatt was frequently heard on BBC Radio as well as appearing in films and television. In film, he played Benjamin Guggenheim in '' A Night to Remember'' (1958), about the sinking of the ''Titanic'', and on television, he played Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Damned
''Children of the Damned'' is a 1964 British black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Anton M. Leader, and starring Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris and Alfred Burke. It is a thematic sequel to '' Village of the Damned'' (1960) which concerns a group of children with similar psi-powers to those in the earlier film. The film enables an interpretation of the children as being a good and more pure form of human being, rather than evil and alien. Plot Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of time. British psychologist Tom Lewellyn and geneticist David Neville are interested in Paul, a London boy whose mother Diana clearly hates the child and insists she was never touched by a man. This is initially dismissed as hysteria and it is implied she has loose morals. But after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's University Belfast
The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of the Queen's University of Ireland and opened four years later, together with University of Galway (as ''Queen's College, Galway'') and University College Cork (as ''Queen's College, Cork''). Queen's offers approximately 300 academic degree programmes at various levels. The current president and Chancellor (education), vice-chancellor is Ian Greer (obstetrician), Ian Greer. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £474.2 million, of which £105.2 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £345.9 million. Queen's is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities UK and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mind Benders (1963 Film)
''The Mind Benders'' is a 1963 British thriller film produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant and Wendy Craig. Screenwriter James Kennaway turned his screenplay into his 1963 novel of the same name. American International Pictures released the film in the U.S. as a double feature with '' Operation Bikini'' (1963). Synopsis Professor Sharpey, working in a university research laboratory, is suspected of passing secrets to the Soviet Union and commits suicide. British intelligence believe that his suicide was the result of shame over his betrayal of his country. However, Sharpey's former colleague Doctor Longman believes that the sensory-deprivation experiments that Sharpey was conducting on himself may have rendered him susceptible to brainwashing. He volunteers to undergo the same tests in order to prove his theory. An intelligence officer and a colleague test the theory by trying to brainwash Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Hours To Rama
''Nine Hours to Rama'' is a1963 British-American neo noir crime film directed by Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson that follows a fictionalised Nathuram Godse in the hours before he Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated the Indian independence leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi, and the police attempt to prevent the murder. It is based on a 1962 novel of the same name by Stanley Wolpert. The film was written by Nelson Gidding and filmed in England and India with mainly white actors in prominent roles. It stars Horst Buchholz, Diane Baker, Jose Ferrer, and Robert Morley. It was shot in CinemaScope DeLuxe Color. The film was shot clandestinely throughout India and was banned in the country upon release, as was the novel. Plot The film is a fictional narrative set in the nine hours in the life of Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) that led up to his assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (J.S. Casshyap). As he prepares for the shooting at Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reluctant Saint
''The Reluctant Saint'' is a 1962 American-Italian historical comedy drama film which tells the story of Joseph of Cupertino, a 17th-century Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and mystic, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. It stars Maximilian Schell as Giuseppe Desa, as well as Ricardo Montalbán, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, and Harold Goldblatt. The movie was written by John Fante and Joseph Petracca and directed by Edward Dmytryk. It was made in Rome, with the sets designed by the art director, Mario Chiari. Plot Most of the key events in the movie are based on historical events or reports about the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. Born Giuseppe Desa, he was said to have been remarkably unclever, but was recorded by many witnesses during his life as prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstasies. The film begins with Giuseppe (Maximilian Schell) spending his final days at home with his mother ( Lea Padovani). Due to his slow wits, she has kept him i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inspector (1962 Film)
''The Inspector'' (also known as ''Lisa'') is a 1962 CinemaScope DeLuxe Color British-American drama film directed by Philip Dunne, starring Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart. Hart plays Lisa Held, a Dutch-Jewish girl who has survived the horror of Auschwitz concentration camp. Plot In 1946 Holland, Lisa Held, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, has fallen prey to ex-Nazi Thorens, who has promised to smuggle her into Palestine for payment. In reality, Thorens plans to send her to South America for sex work. Unknown to them both, they are being trailed by Dutch Police Inspectors Peter Jongman and Sergeant Wolters. Jongman carries the guilt of having worked as a policeman under the Nazi occupation and failing to save his Jewish fiancée, Rachel, from death at the hands of the Nazis. Following Thorens and Lisa to London, Jongman confronts Thorens. During their encounter, Jongman strikes Thorens, who falls on an imitation SS dagger he is holding. Concerne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Gamble (1961 Film)
''The Big Gamble'' is a 1961 adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer. It stars Stephen Boyd and Juliette Gréco. Plot Vic Brennan is a sailor from Dublin who decides to use his family's fortune and move to Africa to open a truck-hauling business. He is accompanied by his wife, Marie, and a meek cousin, Samuel, who loses their documents, causing customs agents to seize some of their cargo. As they proceed along the Ivory Coast, a plan occurs to Vic to purchase 300 cases of beer and deliver it to thirsty natives for sale. A German they encounter along the way, Kaltenberg, attempts to hijack it. A feverish Samuel needs to be nursed back to health. He bravely dives into a raging river to save Vic from drowning. Their misfortune continues when the truck's brakes fail, causing it to race dangerously down a cliff road. Just as all seems lost, though, they safely reach their final destination. Cast * Stephen Boyd as Vic Brennan * Juliette Gréco as Marie * David Wayne as Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Of Assisi (film)
''Francis of Assisi'' is a 1961 DeLuxe CinemaScope epic film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1958 novel ''The Joyful Beggar'' by Louis de Wohl. The film starred Bradford Dillman, in one of his few sympathetic leading film roles (he usually played a villainous character onscreen), Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman. Shot entirely in Italy, it was a box-office bomb. Two years after initial release, Hart, who played St. Clare, became a Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Plot Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi. He joins a military expedition, but deserts when an inner voice commands it. He gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young aristocratic woman who, according to the film, is so taken with St. Francis that she leaves her family and becomes a nun. This follows a lengthy rivalry between Francis and the warrior Count Paolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Siege Of Sidney Street
''The Siege of Sidney Street'', also known as ''The Siege of Hell Street'', is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, and starring Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore and Peter Wyngarde. It was written by Alexander Barron and Jimmy Sangster. Plot The film dramatises the 1909 Tottenham Outrage – a bungled wages-snatch which resulted in the murder of a police officer and a ten-year-old bystander as well as the deaths of the two armed robbers – and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, in which armed personnel of the Metropolitan Police and Scots Guards surrounded a house in East End of London occupied by a gang who had killed three City of London Police officers during a bungled attempt to break into a jeweller's shop. The film depicts the two events as both taking place in 1911 and as both being the work of the same gang. Cast Production It was filmed at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, with shots of Dublin standing in for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooney (film)
''Rooney'' is a 1958 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow and Barry Fitzgerald. The screenplay was by Patrick Kirwan based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Catherine Cookson. The film depicts the life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends, and a Dublin rubbish collector during the week. Plot James Rooney, a Dublin dustman and champion hurley place, leaves his digs to avoid the advances of his landlady. He finds a room the a widow, Mrs. O'Flynn, forced to take im lodgers. She allows Rooney to keep his dog, Rags, although is not impressed he is a dustman. O'Flynn's daughter Doreen also dislikes Rooney but Maire, Mrs. O’Flynn’s niece, is more welcoming, as is Grandpa, who owns the house. Mr. Doolan, a rich man, picks Rooney to play in the All-Ireland Hurley Final and Rooney becomesfamous causing Doreen to bte interested in him. Granpa dies and heaves his possession to Maire. Maire is wrongly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rising Of The Moon (film)
''The Rising of the Moon'' is a 1957 Irish anthology film directed by John Ford.''Harrison's Reports''; 13 July 1957, p. 111. It consists of three episodes all set in Ireland: * "The Majesty of the Law", based on the short story of that title by Frank O'Connor in '' Bones of Contention'' * "A Minute's Wait", based on a 1914 one-act comedy by Martin J. McHugh * "1921", based on the play ''The Rising of the Moon'' by Lady Gregory. Plot The Majesty of the Law Police Inspector Dillon reluctantly sets out walking through the countryside to see an old friend, Dan O'Flaherty. Along the way, he encounters Mickey J., a poitín maker (bootlegger) who is not Dillon's target, but accompanies Dillon to O'Flaherty's stone cottage where Dillon serves O'Flaherty a warrant for striking Phelim O'Feeney. While they are all congenially drinking and socializing inside O'Flaherty's cottage, O'Flaherty refuses to pay the fine. He feels he has done nothing wrong, nor will he allow O'Feeney to pay it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline (1956 Film)
''Jacqueline'' is a 1956 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring John Gregson and Kathleen Ryan. It was written by Patrick Kirwan and Liam O'Flaherty based on the 1954 novel ''The Grand Man'' by Catherine Cookson. It was filmed in Belfast. Plot Steel worker Mike McNeil's drinking spirals out of control when he loses his job due to vertigo at the Belfast shipyard. But his devoted young daughter Jacqueline vows to help him. She is picked as soloist at a church festival and attempts to persuade a tough land-owner to give her troubled dad another chance. Cast Production The film was based on the novel ''The Grand Man'' (1954) by Catherine Cookson. It was Cookson's fifth book. Cookson was paid £750 for the rights and a draft of the script. The film was set in Belfast as opposed to Tyneside which is where the novel was set. Cookson disliked the casting of Jacqueline Ryan in the lead role, feeling she was miscast. She was ultimately unhappy with the film, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
