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Jack Asher
Jack Asher B.S.C. (29 March 1916, London – 1991) was an English cinematographer. His brother Robert Asher was a film and TV director with whom he worked on several occasions. He began his cinematic career as a camera operator, and made his first film as cinematographer or "lighting cameraman" on '' The Magic Bow'' (1946). Asher is best remembered for his work on Hammer films, beginning with ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), the first of Hammer's gothic horrors, and the earliest colour version of the Frankenstein story. He was the director of photography on several of the colour Hammer horror films including ''Dracula'' (1958), ''The Revenge of Frankenstein'' (1958), ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1959), ''The Mummy'' (1959), '' The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll'' (1960) and ''The Brides of Dracula'' (1960) as well as some of the company’s moody monochrome thrillers like ''The Camp on Blood Island'' and ''The Snorkel'' (both 1958). His style was characterized by a fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mummy (1959 Film)
''The Mummy'' is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The film was distributed in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film '' The Bat'' or the Universal film ''Curse of the Undead''. Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, '' The Mummy's Hand'' and '' The Mummy's Tomb'', with the climax borrowed directly from '' The Mummy's Ghost''. The character name Joseph Whemple, the use of a sacred scroll, and a few minor plot elements are the only connections with the 1932 version. Plot In Egypt in 1895, archaeologists John Banning, his father Stephen and his uncle Joseph Whemple are searching for the tomb of Princess Ananka, the high priestess of the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Deaths
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines, making it the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century; MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa, but the crew notoriously abandons the vessel before the passengers are rescued; Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation; The United States and soon-to-be dissolved Soviet Union sign the START I Treaty; A tropical cyclone strikes Bangladesh, killing nearly 140,000 people; Lauda Air Flight 004 crashes after one of its thrust reversers activates during the flight; A United States-led coalition initiates Operation Desert Storm to remove Iraq and Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * February 9 – 6.00 p.m. – Tristan Tzara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Blade
''The Scarlet Blade'' (released in the United States as ''The Crimson Blade'') is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling and starring Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley and June Thorburn. It is a period drama set during the English Civil War. Plot When King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd and his right-hand man Captain Sylvester, it is up to a band of locals loyal to the King led by a Robin Hood–type character named the Scarlet Blade to try to rescue him. They are helped by Judd's daughter Claire who secretly helps them in defiance of her father. Cast * Lionel Jeffries as Colonel Judd * Oliver Reed as Captain Tom Sylvester * Jack Hedley as Edward Beverley, the Scarlet Blade * June Thorburn as Claire Judd * Michael Ripper as Pablo * Harold Goldblatt as Jacob * Duncan Lamont as Major Bell * Clifford Elkin as Philip Beverley * Suzan Farmer as Constance Beverley * John Harvey as Sgt. Grey * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reach For The Sky
''Reach for the Sky'' is a 1956 British biographical film about aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film of 1956. The film's composer John Addison was Bader's brother-in-law. Plot In 1928, Douglas Bader joins the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a Flight Cadet. Despite a friendly reprimand from Air Vice-Marshal Halahan for his disregard for service discipline and flight rules, he successfully completes his training and is posted to No. 23 Squadron at RAF Kenley. In 1930, he is chosen to be among the pilots for an aerial exhibition. Later, although his flight commander has explicitly banned low level aerobatics (as two pilots have been killed trying just that), he is goaded into it by a disparaging remark by a civilian pilot. The wing tip of his bi-plane touches the ground during his flight and he crashes dramatically, and is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Die Young
''The Good Die Young'' is a 1954 British crime film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart and John Ireland. It was made by Remus Films from a screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Richard Macaulay. It tells the story of four men in London with no criminal past whose marriages and finances are collapsing and, meeting in a pub, are tempted to redeem their situations by a robbery. Plot Mike is an injured ex-boxer unable to find a job and penniless after his wife Angela, who he loves, gives their life savings to her criminal brother. Joe has quit his clerical job in the USA to reclaim Mary, his pregnant English wife, who is unable to escape her clinging and unstable mother. Eddie deserts the US Air Force in an effort to regain Denise, his unfaithful actress wife. The fourth man is Rave, decorated in the war but now a womaniser and gambler sponging off his rich wife Eve, who wants to take h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Grant (cinematographer)
Arthur Grant B.S.C. (1915–1972) was a British cinematographer. He succeeded Jack Asher as regular Director of Photography for Hammer Film Productions. His films for Hammer included '' Shadow of the Cat'' (1961), '' The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1961), '' The Phantom of the Opera'' (1962), '' The Plague of the Zombies'' (1966) and ''The Devil Rides Out'' (1968). His final film for the studio was '' Demons of the Mind'' in 1972. Selected filmography * ''Self Made Lady'' (1932) * '' Loyal Heart'' (1946) * '' I'll Turn to You'' (1946) * '' The Second Mate'' (1950) * '' Conflict of Wings'' (1954) * '' The End of the Road'' (1954) * ''Not Wanted on Voyage'' (1957) * '' Danger Within'' (1959) * '' Make Mine a Million'' (1959) * '' Cone of Silence'' (1960) * '' Hell Is a City'' (1960) * ''Cash on Demand'' (1961) * '' Jigsaw'' (1962) * '' The Damned'' (1963) * '' Paranoiac'' (1963) * '' The Tomb of Ligeia'' (1965) * '' The Reptile'' (1966) * ''Quatermass and the Pit ''Quatermass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was '' The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), which launched Hammer's association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including '' Dracula'' (1958), '' The Mummy'' (1959), and '' The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1961). Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an '' auteur'' in his own right. His most famous films are characterised by a blend of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snorkel
''The Snorkel'' is a 1958 British thriller film from Hammer Films. It was directed by Guy Green and stars Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John and Mandy Miller. It was the last film role for Miller. Plot Paul Decker kills his wife, Madge, by drugging her and then gassing her in a room in their Italian villa, sealing all the windows and doors but concealing himself under floorboards in the room, covered by a rug and using a snorkel attached to air pipes to breathe while hidden. Household servants discover her body in the morning and as the room has been locked and sealed from the inside, it appears to the local Italian police Inspector and British Consulate Mr. Wilson to be a case of suicide, although no suicide note has been found. Madge's teenage daughter Candy arrives from England with her dog Toto and travelling companion Jean Edwards, and immediately accuses her stepfather, Decker, of killing her mother, based on the fact that she believes - correctly - that he also killed her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Camp On Blood Island
''The Camp on Blood Island'' is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald. The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners by their captors. On its release, the film was promoted with the tag line "Jap War Crimes Exposed!", alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, "We may forgive, but we must never forget", and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword. From its powerful opening sequence of a man being forced to dig his own grave before being shot dead, an intertitle follows, stating "this is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth", ''The Camp on Blood Island'' is noted for a depiction of human cruelty and brutality which was unusually graphic for a film of its time. It received some contemporary allegations of goi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brides Of Dracula (film)
''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, David Peel, Freda Jackson, Yvonne Monlaur, Andrée Melly, and Martita Hunt. The film is a sequel to the 1958 film ''Dracula'' (also known as ''Horror of Dracula''), though the character of Count Dracula does not appear in the film, and is instead mentioned only twice. Christopher Lee would reprise his role as Dracula in the next film in the Dracula series, '' Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' (1966). Filming began for ''The Brides of Dracula'' on 16 January 1960 at Bray Studios. It was developed under the working titles ''Dracula 2'' and ''Disciple of Dracula''. The finished film premièred at the Odeon Marble Arch on 6 July 1960. It was distributed theatrically in 1960 on a double bill with ''The Leech Woman''. Plot Marianne Danielle, a young French schoolteacher en route to taking up a position in Transylvania, is ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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