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In The Nick
''In the Nick'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, James Booth and Harry Andrews. It was written by Hughes based on a story by Frank Norman. A gang of incompetent criminals are placed in a special type of new prison. Plot A progressive experimental prison without bars is run by young psychiatrist Dr. Newcombe and harsh but fair Chief Officer Williams. Four hardened criminals, the Spider Gang, arrive at this minimum security prison, the leader of whom is Spider Kelly. Dr. Newcombe has his work cut out trying to reform the boys and enlists the aid of Spider's girlfriend Doll, who, to Spider's anger, is now working as a stripper in Soho. Newcombe seems to be straightening Spider out, while Spider is in turn sorting out a rival imprisoned gang, led by Ted Ross), who hold the monopoly in smuggled cigarettes. Cast * Anthony Newley as Dr. Newcombe * Anne Aubrey as The Doll * Bernie Winters as Jinx Shortbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Hughes
Kenneth Graham Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001) was an English film director and screenwriter. He worked on over 30 feature films between 1952 and 1981, including the 1968 musical fantasy film ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', based on the Ian Fleming Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, novel of the same name. His other notable works included ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' (1960), ''Of Human Bondage (1964 film), Of Human Bondage'' (1964), ''Casino Royale (1967 film), Casino Royale'' (1967), and ''Cromwell (film), Cromwell'' (1970). He was an Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Award winner and a three-time BAFTA Award nominee. Hughes has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining, and deserved more critical attention than it has received." Early life and career Hughes was born in Yates St, Toxteth, Liverpool. His family moved to London soon after. Hughes won an amateur film contest at age 14 and worked as a projectionist. When he was sixteen he went t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Mulock
Alfred Mulock Rogers (June 30, 1926 – May 1968), better known as Al Mulock or Al Mulloch, was a Canadian character actor. Early life Alfred Mulock Rogers was born on June 30, 1926, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the only child of Adèle Cawthra Mulock and Alfred Rogers. Maternally he was descended from the Mulock family, headed by Sir William Mulock KCMG, the former Postmaster-General of Canada and one of the wealthiest families in Canada. Career He attended the Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in New York City, United States. Then, with David de Keyser, he started The London Studio, which taught method acting to British actors. Mulock became active in the British film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s, making numerous appearances in various British television series and films. He is best known for his roles in Spaghetti Western films, most notably in his two collaborations with Sergio Leone, ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' and ''Once Upon a Time in the West''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, ''Playboy'' Playmate, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her numerous publicity stunts and open personal life. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and Golden Globe Award. She gained the nickname of Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde". Mansfield gained popularity after playing the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe in '' Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?'' on Broadway in 1955–56 and reprising it in the 1957 film adaptation. Her other film roles include the musical comedy ''The Girl Can't Help It'' (1956), the drama '' The Wayward Bus'' (1957), the neo-noir '' Too Hot to Handle'' (1960), and the sex comedy '' Promises! Promises!'' (1963), the last of which made Mansfield one of the first major American actresses to perform a nude scene in a post-silent era film. Mansfield's profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Get Married (1960 Film)
''Let's Get Married'' is a 1960 British comedy drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey and Hermione Baddeley. It was written by Ken Taylor. The film features Newley singing the song "Do You Mind", which reached #1 in the British Hit Singles chart the same year. Director Graham said it was " not a good film — not my script and not my scene." Plot Dickie Bird is a medical student. After being thrown out of his university he ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model. Cast * Anthony Newley as Dickie Bird * Anne Aubrey as Anne Linton * Bernie Winters as Bernie * Hermione Baddeley as Mrs O'Grady * James Booth as photographer * Jack Gwillim as Doctor Saunders * Lionel Jeffries as Marsh * Diane Clare as Glad * John Le Mesurier as Dean * Victor Maddern as works manager * Joyce Carey as Miss Finch * Sydney Tafler as Pendle * Betty Marsden as Miss Kaplan * Cardew Robinson as salesman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Boat
''Jazz Boat'' is a 1960 British black-and-white musical comedy film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries and big band leader Ted Heath and his orchestra. It was written by John Antrobus and Hughes based on the 1960 novel ''Jazz Boat'' by Rex Rienits. The cinematographer was Nicolas Roeg. Many of the cast and the same director also made '' In the Nick'' (1960) which was a sequel although Newley plays a different role. Plot Electrician Bert Harris boasts that he is a successful cat burglar, which leads to his getting mixed up with real thieves who need those special skills for a big jewellery heist. However, Bert was only making a "song and dance" about being a cat burglar. He discovers that it is too late to back out. Cast * Anthony Newley as Bert Harris * Anne Aubrey as The Doll * Bernie Winters as The Jinx * James Booth as Spider Kelly * Leo McKern as Inspector * Lionel Jeffries as Sergeant Thompson * David Lodge as Holy Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Kydd
Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was a British actor. Most of his film roles were very small but he appeared in more than 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952. His best-known roles were in two major British television series of the 1960s, as the smuggler Orlando O'Connor in '' Crane'' and its sequel ''Orlando''. He also played a recurring character in ''Coronation Street''. Kydd's first film was '' The Captive Heart'' (1946), in which he played a POW. Early life and career An army officer's son, Kydd was born on 15 February 1915 in Belfast, Ireland, and moved to London as a child. He was educated at Dunstable School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. During the mid-1930s Kydd entered various talent contests and was spotted by Oscar Rabin who made him an MC for the Oscar Rabin Band and one of his "Hot Shots". He would warm up audiences with jokes, impressions (Maurice Chevalier was a favourite) and tap dance routines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andria Lawrence
Andria Lawrence (born Maureen Smith; 20 June 1936) is an English actress, best known for her roles in ''On the Buses'', and in ''Coronation Street'' as Janet Stockwell. Career Andria Lawrence is best remembered for her appearances in both the TV and film productions of the 1970s’ British sitcom ''On the Buses''. Her performance as "Turnaround Betty" in the 1971 ''On the Buses'' film exemplified the amorous type of comic role in which she was most often cast. She was cast to similar comic type in '' For the Love of Ada'' (1972) and ''Man About the House'' (1974). She is also remembered for her part as a pretty barmaid in a c.1970 TV advert for Courage Tavern Keg Bitter, in which her line was "Ooooh, it's too strong for me .... but I like the men who drink it!" Lawrence demonstrated skill in drama too. She appeared in Ken Loach's acclaimed slice of gritty realism ''Cathy Come Home'' (1966) and in the Hammer Films A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consistin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kynaston Reeves
Philip Arthur Reeves (29 May 18935 December 1971), known professionally as Kynaston Reeves, was an English character actor who appeared in numerous films and many television plays and series. Early life Reeves was born in London on 29 May 1893 and was the first of two sons of Arthur Robert Reeves (born 1855) and Clarissa Mary Kynaston (b. 1864). His brother was John Edward. He was married to the Australian Jewish stage actress Paula Sabina. They had two children, Thomas and Suzanne. Career Philip Arthur Reeves, professionally known as P. Kynaston Reeves or Kynaston Reeves, took his mother's maiden name as a middle name when commencing his film career with a small part in the 1931 film ''Many Waters'', before dispensing with the prefixed initial. He believed that having a name that reminded directors of the famous actor Edward Kynaston would help him to get work. In 1932, he progressed to a supporting role, playing an editor called Bob Mitchell alongside Ivor Novello and Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hendry
Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of '' The Avengers'' and '' The Lotus Eaters.'' He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards for his film work: Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for '' Live Now, Pay Later'' (1962) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ''Get Carter'' (1971). His other notable film appearances included '' The Hill'' (1965), '' Repulsion'' (also 1965), ''Doppelgänger'' (1969), '' Tales from The Crypt'' (1972), '' Theatre of Blood'' (1973), and '' The Passenger'' (1975). The latter part of his career was tempered by personal and financial issues, which led him to declare bankruptcy in 1978. Early years Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, on 13 January 1931. His mother, Enid (née Rushton), was born in Durham in 1906. His father, James Hendry, was born in 1901 in Glasgow where he graduated with a degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
