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Jack Lambert (British Actor)
Jack Lambert (29 December 1899 – 13 March 1976) was a Scottish film and television actor. He came to Australia in 1948 to make ''Eureka Stockade''. ''Filmink'' magazine called him "an utterly non-famous and non-exciting actor who, for some reason, Ealing decided to import all the way from Britain to play a lead role." Selected filmography * ''A Honeymoon Adventure'' (1931) – Chauffeur * '' Sorrell and Son'' (1933) – (uncredited) * ''Red Ensign'' (1934) – Police Inspector (uncredited) * '' The Ghost Goes West'' (1935) – Son of MacLaggen (uncredited) * '' House Broken'' (1936) – Jock Macgregor * '' The Last Adventurers'' (1937) – (uncredited) * ''Premiere'' (1938) – Stage Manager * '' Thistledown'' (1938) – (uncredited) * ''The Terror'' (1938) – Warder Joyce (uncredited) * '' Marigold'' (1938) – Minor Role (uncredited) * '' The Outsider'' (1939) – (uncredited) * ''The Spy in Black'' (1939) – Passport Official (uncredited) * '' The Four Feathers'' (1939) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Men (film)
''Nine Men'' is a 1943 British war film, set in the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War. Production The film is an Ealing Studios production and marked the first fiction film assignment for celebrated documentary film director Harry Watt, who had worked at the Crown Film Unit. With only a £20,000 budget, the film's exterior desert sequences were shot at Margam Sands, Glamorgan. Plot In a barrack room at a Battle Training Ground in England, a platoon of conscripts are complaining about blisters and are impatient to get into action with the enemy. Sergeant Jack Watson tells them that they need a little bit extra to be successful in combat, which he illustrates with a story from his experience in the Western Desert Campaign. His story is then shown in flashback. Lieutenant Crawford, Sergeant Watson and the seven men under their command are travelling through the Libyan desert in an Allied convoy, when their lorry becomes stuck in the sand and the convoy moves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Feathers (1939 Film)
''The Four Feathers'' is a 1939 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith. Set during the reign of Queen Victoria, it tells the story of a cowardly junior officer and his subsequent efforts to redeem his name. It is widely regarded as the best of the numerous film adaptations of the 1902 novel of the same name by A.E.W. Mason. Plot In 1895, the Royal North Surrey Regiment is called to active service to join the army of Sir Herbert Kitchener in the Mahdist War against the forces of the Khalifa. Forced into an army career by family tradition and fearful he might prove a coward in battle, Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his commission on the eve of its departure. As a result, his three friends and fellow officers, Captain John Durrance and Lieutenants Burroughs and Willoughby, show their contempt by each sending him a white feather—signifying cowardice—attached to a calling c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Of Ballantrae (1953 Film)
''The Master of Ballantrae'' is a 1953 British Technicolor adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Roger Livesey. It is a loose and highly truncated adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson 1889 novel of the same name. In eighteenth century Scotland, two sons of a laird clash over the family estate and a lady. It was the last film directed by William Keighley. Plot At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie (Errol Flynn), his younger brother Henry ( Anthony Steel) and their father Lord Durrisdeer (Felix Aylmer) receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns), recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to King George II, so that whichever side wins, the family's status and estate will be preserved. Both brothers want to go. Jamie insists on tossing a coin for the privilege and wins, despite the opposition of his fiancée, Lady Alison ( Beatrice Campbell). The rising is crushed at the Battle of Cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twice Upon A Time (1953 Film)
''Twice Upon a Time'' is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Emeric Pressburger and starring Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe, and Charmian Larthe. It is based on the 1949 novel ''Lisa and Lottie'' by Erich Kästner.Goble p.252 ''Lotte and Lisa'' had already been adapted into the films '' Two Times Lotte'' (1950) and '' Hibari no komoriuta'' (1951). ''Twice Upon a Time'' was the first English-language film adaptation; the story was later twice adapted as '' The Parent Trap'' (1961 and 1998) and has been remade a number of times in English and many other languages. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Arthur Lawson. The film is the only solo directing credit for Pressburger, whose other directing credits are in association with Michael Powell. Plot Twin sisters are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are sent to the same summer camp, and they hatch a plan to reunite their parents. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Game (1953 Film)
''The Great Game'' is a 1953 British sports comedy-drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring James Hayter, Thora Hird and Diana Dors. It was written by Wolfgang Wilhelm based on the play ''Shooting Star'' by Basil Thomas. Many of the scenes were shot at Griffin Park, the home of Brentford F.C. Several professional football players made appearances in the film including Tommy Lawton. Plot Joe Lawson is the chairman of a relegation zone English football club and he makes makes an illegal approach to a rising star of a rival club. The manager of the rival club makes an accusation which is picked up by the press. When Lawson is questioned by his board and his account of events is doubted, he impulsively offers his resignation, but is shocked when it is accepted and he is quickly replaced. He decides he will turn his attentions to cricket instead. Cast * James Hayter as Joe Lawson * Thora Hird as Miss Rawlings * Diana Dors as Lulu Smith * John Laurie as 'Mac' Wells * Meredith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Hours
''The Lost Hours'' (also known as ''The Big Frame'') is a 1952 British second feature ('B') film noir directed by David MacDonald and starring Mark Stevens, Jean Kent and John Bentley. It was written by Steve Fisher and John Gilling. It was produced by Tempean Films which specialised in making second features at the time, and marked Kent's first "descent", as Chibnall and McFarlane put it, into B films after her 1940s stardom. It was released in the United States in 1953 by RKO Pictures. Plot summary An American returns for a reunion in the United Kingdom, where he served as a pilot during the Second World War, but finds himself framed for a murder he didn't commit. Cast * Mark Stevens as Paul Smith * Jean Kent as Louise Parker * John Bentley as Clark Sutton * Garry Marsh as Inspector Foster * Cyril Smith as Detective Sergeant Roper * Dianne Foster as Dianne Wrigley * Bryan Coleman as Tom Wrigley * Leslie Perrins as Dr Derek Morrison * Duncan Lamont as Bristow * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunted (1952 Film)
''Hunted'' (U.S. ''The Stranger In Between'') is a British Noir crime film directed by Charles Crichton and released in 1952. ''Hunted'' is a crime drama in the form of a chase film, starring Dirk Bogarde, and written by Jack Whittingham and Michael McCarthy (film director), Michael McCarthy. It was produced by Julian Wintle and edited by Gordon Hales and Geoffrey Muller, with cinematography by Eric Cross (cinematographer), Eric Cross and music by Hubert Clifford. The film won the Golden Leopard award at the 1952 Locarno International Film Festival. Crichton regarded the film as a breakthrough movie for him. "That's when I got more sure of myself," he said. Plot Robbie, an orphaned 6-year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, he fears he will receive severe punishment as he has in the past for misdemeanours, so flees into the London streets. Here, he literally runs into Chris Lloyd, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floodtide
''Floodtide'' is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Jimmy Logan. The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection. Plot A young Scotsman becomes a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming. He works his way up the firm, marries the boss's daughter, and revolutionises shipbuilding. Cast * Gordon Jackson as David Shields * Rona Anderson as Mary Anstruther * John Laurie as Joe Drummond * Jack Lambert as Anstruther * Jimmy Logan as Tim Brogan * Janet Brown as Rosie * Elizabeth Sellars as Judy * Gordon McLeod as Pursey * Ian McLean as Sir John * Archie Duncan as Charlie Campbell * James Woodburn as John Shields * Molly Weir as Mrs. McTavish * Ian Wallace as 1st director * Alexander Archdale as 2nd director * Grace Gavin as Mrs. McCrae Critical recept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eureka Stockade (1949 Film)
''Eureka Stockade'' is a 1949 British film of the story surrounding Irish-Australian rebel and politician Peter Lalor and the gold miners' rebellion of 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, in the Australian Western genre. Starring Chips Rafferty, it was produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Harry Watt, following their success with ''The Overlanders''. The movie was the most expensive film made in Australia at that time, and was a critical and commercial disappointment. It has been called "a case of a filmmaker coming off a big fat hit and given carte blanche for his next project, then picking a story that gave him full scope to spend a lot of money on production value, but it was beyond his capabilities to dramatise." Plot An introductory montage establishes Australia of 1851 – a place of both wealth and poverty, transformed by the discovery of gold. This causes a massive drain in manpower which puts a strain on the country. The Governor of Victoria, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers (1947 Film)
''The Brothers'' is a 1947 British film melodrama directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe and Maxwell Reed. It was adapted from the novel of the same title by L. A. G. Strong. Plot In the Western Isles of Scotland, a long and murderous grudge exists between two clans, the Macraes and McFarishes. The arrival of a serving girl to work for the Macraes reinflames the conflict and causes an internal power-struggle between two brothers in the Macrae clan. Cast * Patricia Roc as Mary * Will Fyffe as Aeneas McGrath * Maxwell Reed as Fergus Macrae * Finlay Currie as Hector Macrae * John Laurie as Dugald McLeod and Alistair MacDonald * Andrew Crawford as Willie McFarish * Duncan Macrae as John Macrae * Morland Graham as Angus McFarish * Megs Jenkins as Angustina McFarish * James Woodburn as Priest * David McAlister as George McFarish * Patrick Boxill as The Informer * David Keir as Postman Production Development L.A.G. Strong's novel was publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Murderer
''Dear Murderer'' is a 1947 British film noir crime, drama, thriller, directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures, and starring Eric Portman and Greta Gynt. The film has come to be regarded as one of the best movies made under the supervision of Sydney Box at Gainsborough. Plot Lee and Vivien Warren are trapped in a nightmare marriage. Vivien is despising, devious and habitually unfaithful while Lee is pathologically jealous. On his return from a lengthy business trip to New York, suspicious after his wife failed to write to him or call, Lee finds several cards addressed to Vivien signed "Love Always" and determines to kill her latest lover, Richard Fenton. He confronts Fenton, who admits to his affair with Vivien, and persuades him to end the relationship by writing her a farewell letter. He then kills Fenton, and stages the scene to look like a suicide, believing he has committed the perfect crime as the letter which Fenton had just written at his dictation has all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meet Me At Dawn
Meet may refer to: People with the name * Janek Meet (born 1974), Estonian footballer * Meet Mukhi (born 2005), Indian child actor Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Meet'' (TV series), an Australian television series * '' Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet'', an Indian television series * Meet Bros, music director duo from Gwalior * "Meet", an episode of '' Heartstopper'' Convention or meeting * Track meet, a competitive event in track and field athletics ** All-comers track meet, usually small local track and field competitions * Swap meet (or flea market), a type of bazaar that rents or provides space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise * Train meet, a railroad term referring to the event of the meeting of two trains * Google Meet, a video communication service developed by Google Other uses * Meet (mathematics), the greatest lower bound of a subset * Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET), a program that brings together young Palestinian and Israeli leaders thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
