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J. Elder Wills
James Ernest Elder Wills (1900–1970) was a British person who had a lengthy career in the film industry. He mainly worked as an art director, but he also worked in other roles, including director. Films he was involved in include ''Tiger Bay'', ''The Quatermass Xperiment'', and ''The Men of Sherwood Forest''. He was a colonel during the Second World War who worked in I.S.R.B. designing, signing and building camouflaged explosive devices for agents operating against the Germans and Japanese. The story he wrote for the film '' Against the Wind'' was based upon his wartime experiences.''Sabotage! The Story of Lt-Col J Elder Wills'' by Leslie Bells 1957- published by T Werner Laurie Ltd. Selected filmography * '' The First Mrs. Fraser'' (1932) - Art Director * '' Holiday Lovers'' (1932) - Art Director * ''Tiger Bay'' (1934) - Director * '' Honeymoon for Three'' (1935) - Art Director * ''Everything in Life'' (1936) - Director * ''Sporting Love'' (1936) - Director * ''Song of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeymoon For Three (1935 Film)
''Honeymoon for Three'' is a 1935 British musical comedy film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Stanley Lupino, Aileen Marson and Jack Melford. It was made at Ealing Studios.Wood p.86 The film's sets were designed by J. Elder Wills. It was the first film Lupino made after leaving British International Pictures and trying his luck as an independent producer. When returning home drunk from a night out a young man (Lupino) accidentally finds himself in a woman's (Marson) flat where he passes out. Before he make his escape in the morning they are discovered by their parents and a passing policeman and forced to marry. They go through the ceremony but plan to go to California to get a divorce, and set off on their "honeymoon" along with her real fiancée (Melford). However during the journey she gradually begins to change her loathing of him. Plot Cast * Stanley Lupino as Jack Denver * Aileen Marson as Yvonne Daumery * Jack Melford as Raymond Dirk * Robert English as Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Directors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Before You Love
''Look Before You Love'' is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones and Maurice Denham. The screenplay was by Reginald Long based on the story ''I Know You'' by Ketti Frings. Plot summary A woman working in the British Embassy in Brazil falls in love and marries a man, but soon discovers him to be a drunken wastrel tied up with serious crime. He tries to get her to marry a dying millionaire so he can remarry her. Cast * Margaret Lockwood as Ann Markham * Griffith Jones as Charles Kent * Norman Wooland as Ashley Morehouse * Phyllis Stanley as Bettina Colby * Maurice Denham as Fosser * Frederick Piper as Miller * Bruce Seton as Johns * Michael Medwin as Emile Garat * Violet Farebrother as dowager * Peggy Evans as typist Production The film was originally known as ''I Know You'' and ''Change of Heart''. Margaret Lockwood had been arguing with the Rank Organisation over what films she should make, and had gone on suspensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Fella
''Big Fella'' is a 1937 British musical drama film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch and Roy Emerton. It is loosely based on the novel ''Banjo'' by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay. Plot ''Big Fella'' is set on the docks and streets of Marseille. Paul Robeson stars as a street-wise but honest dockworker who struggles with deep issues of integrity and human values. Elisabeth Welch plays opposite him as a café singer in love with him. Robeson's wife, Eslanda Robeson, appears as the café owner. Reception The movie received praise, particularly for the music, featuring Robeson and Welch, and for Robeson's performance. Cast * Paul Robeson as Banjo * Elisabeth Welch as Amanda 'Manda' * Roy Emerton as Spike * James Hayter as Chuck * Lawrence Brown as Corney * Eldon Gorst as Gerald Oliphant * Marcelle Rogez as Marietta * Eric Cowley as Ferdy Oliphant * Joyce Kennedy as Mrs. Oliphant * Dino Galvani as Gendarme * Anthony Holles as Gendarme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of Freedom
''Song of Freedom'' is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy and Robert Adams. It was written by Ingram D'Abbes and Fenn Hill Sherie based on a story by Claude Wallace and Dorothy Holloway. It is an early feature produced by Hammer Film Productions. John Zinga is a black dockworker in England with a great bass-baritone singing voice. He is discovered by an opera impresario and becomes an international star. Yet he feels alienated from his African past, and out of place in England. By chance, he is informed that an ancestral medallion he wears proves his lineage to African kings, and he leaves fame and fortune behind to take his rightful place as royalty. Reunited with his people, he plans to improve their lives by combining Western technology with the best of African tradition. Although unsuccessful in the US, it was notably chosen in 1950 to open the convention of Ghana's Convention People's Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Love (film)
''Sporting Love'' is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff and Lu Ann Meredith. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. It was based on the musical '' Sporting Love'' which Stanley Lupino had written and starred in. Lupino had broken with British International Pictures to make a couple of independent films, but after this he returned to BIP. Plot The Brace brothers (Percy and Peter) are in a continual trough of financial depression and fear they may lose their racehorse Moonbeam to repay a mortgage to Mr. Dane. The brothers borrow money from their aunt Fanny, claiming they are both getting married and thus need her financial aid. They get caught in a lie however when Aunt Fanny announces she's coming to visit them. The brothers try to talk two women (Nellie and Maud) into posing as their wives to fool Aunt Fanny. Nellie's fiance shows up unexpectedly, breaks up with Nellie and winds up making a play for Aunt Fanny. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything In Life
''Everything in Life'' is a 1936 British musical film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring Gitta Alpar, Neil Hamilton and Lawrence Grossmith. It was made at Highbury Studios.Wood p.90 Synopsis An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer. Cast * Gitta Alpar as Rita Bonya * Neil Hamilton as Geoffrey Loring * Lawrence Grossmith as Lewis Radford * H. F. Maltby as Sir Algernon Spindle * Gerald Barry as Vere Ponsonby * Dorothy Boyd as Miss Winstone * Wyn Weaver as William Tewkes * Clarissa Selwynne as Matilda Tewkes * Bruce Winston as Franz Graumann * Vera Bogetti Vera Josephine Boggetti (5 October 1902 – 10 October 1985) was a British stage and film actress. She married Laurence J. Rickards in Hampstead, London in 1925, and the couple had a daughter, Pauline, in 1931, who died as an infant in 1932 ... as Carolyn Dexter * John Deverell as John References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Lovers (1932 Film)
''Holiday Lovers'' is a 1932 romantic comedy film from the United Kingdom. It is written by notable screenwriter and director Leslie Arliss, directed by Jack Harrison and stars Margery Pickard, George Vollaire, Pamela Carme and George Benson in his debut role. Filming took place at Wembley Studios under the supervision of Hugh Perceval, the head of Fox productions U.K, with production design by J. Elder Wills. It is the first film of Harry Cohen Productions and marks the return of film making to Wembley Studios after a major fire. When a man and woman of modest means meet on a Brighton pier they begin a holiday romance. However, when they each act rich to dupe the other, there are unintended consequences. Cast * Margery Pickard * George Vollaire * Pamela Carme * Boris Ranevsky * George Benson as Oswald * Wyn Weaver as Lord Winterton * Vincent Holman as Salesman Release "Holiday Lovers" premiered on 10 November 1932 at The Hippodrome, London in a Fox Film double bill with "Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Bay (1934 Film)
Tiger Bay () was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. Following the building of the Cardiff Barrage, which dams the tidal rivers, River Ely, Ely and River Taff, Taff, to create a body of water, it is referred to as Cardiff Bay. Tiger Bay is Wales’ oldest multi-ethnic community, with sailors and workers from over 50 countries settling there from the mid-19th century onwards. Background Cardiff Docks played a major part in Cardiff's development as it was the means of exporting coal from the South Wales Valleys to the rest of the world, helping to power the Industrial Age. The coal mining industry helped fund the growth of Cardiff to become the capital city of Wales, and contributed towards making the docks' owner, the John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, 3rd Marquess of Bute, the richest man in the world at the time. In 1794, the Glamorganshire Canal was completed, linking Cardiff with Merthyr, and in 1798 a basin was built, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Mrs
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Against The Wind (1948 Film)
Against the Wind may refer to: * ''Against the Wind'' (album), a 1980 album by Bob Seger ** "Against the Wind" (Bob Seger song) * "Against the Wind" (Bonnie Tyler song), 1991 * "Against the Wind" (Máire Brennan song), 1991 * ''Against the Wind'' (1948 film), a Ealing Studios World War II film * Against the Wind (1990 film), a Spanish incest-themed drama film * ''Against the Wind'' (2000 film), an Italian drama film * ''Against the Wind'' (miniseries), a 1978 Australian television mini-series ** ''Against the Wind'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the series, by Jon English and Mario Millo * "Against the Wind", an episode of 2011 animated Italian-German TV series '' Mia and Me'' See also * Into the Wind (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
