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Jack McNaughton
Jack McNaughton (22 December 190522 February 1990) was a British stage and film actor. As a character actor he mostly played supporting roles, but occasionally featured in major roles such as playing the male lead in the 1951 comedy '' Cheer the Brave''. He was married to the Canadian-born actress Kay Callard. Selected filmography * ''They Made Me a Fugitive'' (1947) – Soapy * '' Brighton Rock'' (1948) – Trudy brother – pierrot (uncredited) * ''London Belongs to Me'' (1948) – Jimmy * '' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) – (uncredited) * '' Brass Monkey'' (1948) – Porter * '' Badger's Green'' (1949) – Mr. Twigg * '' Cardboard Cavalier'' (1949) – Uriah Group * ''Man on the Run'' (1949) – First Man at Soho Pub * '' Madness of the Heart'' (1949) – Attendant * '' No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) – Coffee Stall Attendant * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) – El Greco * ''She Shall Have Murder'' (1950) – Barman * ''The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) – Taxi Driver * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitcham
Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross. Originally a village in the county of Surrey, today it is mainly a residential suburb, and includes Mitcham Common. It has been a settlement throughout recorded history. Amenities include Mitcham Library and Mitcham Cricket Green. Nearby major districts are Croydon, Sutton, London, Sutton, Beddington, Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, Morden, Tooting, Streatham, Norbury and Colliers Wood. Mitcham, most broadly defined, had a population of 63,393 in 2011, formed from six wards including Pollards Hill. Location Mitcham is in the east of the London Borough of Merton, bounded by boroughs of London Borough of Wandsworth, Wandsworth, London Borough of Croydon, Croydon, London Borough of Lambeth, Lambeth and London Borough of Sutton, Sutton. The River Wandle bounds the town to the southwest. The original village lies in the west. Mitcham Common takes up the greate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Shall Have Murder
''She Shall Have Murder'' is a 1950 British drama film directed by Daniel Birt and starring Rosamund John, Derrick De Marney and Felix Aylmer. It was written by Allan MacKinnon based on the 1949 novel of the same title by Delano Ames. The screenplay concerns a law office clerk who becomes a detective. It was co-financed by the Woolf brothers. Premise A law office clerk who aspires to be a crime writer, turns into a detective when someone at her work is murdered. Cast * Rosamund John as Jane Hamish * Derrick De Marney as Dagobert Brown * Mary Jerrold as Mrs. Robjohn * Felix Aylmer as Mr. Playfair * Joyce Heron as Rosemary Proctor * Jack Allen as Major Stewart * Henryetta Edwards as Sarah Swinburne * Harry Fowler as Albert Oates * John Bentley as Douglas Robjohn * Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Hawthorne * June Elvin as Barbara Jennings * Jack McNaughton as bBarman * Olaf Pooley as Mr. White * Dennis Val Norton as pub landlord * Francis de Wolff as Police Inspector * Jonathan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Brown (film)
''Father Brown'' is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film '' Father Brown, Detective'' (1934), it is based loosely on '' The Blue Cross'' (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Hawkesworth. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures in both Britain and the United States where it was released as ''The Detective''. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. Peter Finch's biographer, Elaine Dundy, argued this film was when Finch "came of age" as a movie actor. Plot The police raid a premises at night and find a priest at an open safe: he explains he is replacing the money for a parishioner. He is arrested and put in the cells but released when the bishop confirms who he is. Outside he meets the erring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Beat
''River Beat'' is a 1954 British second feature noir crime film directed by Guy Green and starring John Bentley, Phyllis Kirk and Leonard White. It was written by Rex Rientis and distributed in the United States by Lippert Pictures. Plot Judy is a radio operator on an American ship duped into smuggling diamonds in the belief that she is delivering cigarettes. Stopped by Customs she is in further trouble when the man who involved her is found dead in the river. Customs Detective Dan Barker has fallen for Judy and faces a moral dilemma: he must find out whether or not she is guilty, while protecting her from the smugglers. Cast * John Bentley as Detective Inspector Dan Barker * Phyllis Kirk as Judy Roberts * Robert Ayres as Watford * Leonard White as Detective Sergeant Mack McLeod * Glyn Houston as Charlie Williamson * Patrick Jordan as Bert Fisher * Ewan Roberts as Customs Inspector J.S. Blake * David Hurst as Paddy McClure * Charles Lloyd-Pack as John Hendrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Million Pound Note
''The Million Pound Note'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Jane Griffiths (actress), Jane Griffiths. It is based on the 1893 Mark Twain short story "The Million Pound Bank Note", and is a precursor to the 1983 film ''Trading Places''. It was shot at Pinewood Studios and location shooting, on location around London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors John Box and Jack Maxsted. It was released by The Rank Organisation, Rank's General Film Distributors. The American release was handled by United Artists under the alternative title ''Man with a Million''. Plot In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams is stranded penniless in Britain and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver and Roderick Montpelier. They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope, only telling him that it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough Shoot
''Rough Shoot'', released in the USA as ''Shoot First'', is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and written by Eric Ambler, based on the 1951 novel by Geoffrey Household. The film stars Joel McCrea, in his only postwar non-Western role, with Evelyn Keyes as the leading lady, and featuring Herbert Lom, Marius Goring and Roland Culver. The scenario is set in Cold War England when tensions ran high regarding spying. Plot A U.S. Army colonel Robert Taine (Joel McCrea) living in the English countryside shoots at a man he takes to be a poacher on Taine's rented property in Dorset. The man named Reimann (Denis Lehre), has been mortally wounded but Robert is unaware that a foreign spy named Hiart (Marius Goring) simultaneously shot Reimann. Believing he has killed the poacher, Robert hides Reimann's body under a shrub. Robert encounters Hiart and his driver, Diss (Karel Stepanek) looking for the body. Later that night, Hiart's colleague, Magda Hassingham ( Patricia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Bomb (1953 Film)
A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. Time bomb, Time Bomb, or Timebomb may also refer to: Film * Time Bomb (1953 film), ''Time Bomb'' (1953 film) or ''Terror on a Train'', a British film * Time Bomb (1984 film), ''Time Bomb'' (1984 film), an American TV film starring Billy Dee Williams * Timebomb (1991 film), ''Timebomb'' (1991 film), an American science fiction action film * Time Bomb (1994 film), ''Time Bomb'' (1994 film), an Indian Kannada action thriller film * ''Time Bomb'', a 1996 Indian film starring Puneet Issar * Time Bomb (2006 film), ''Time Bomb'' (2006 film), a thriller film * ''Time Bomb'', a 2008 direct-to-video film starring Jake Busey Literature * Time Bomb (Alex Delaware), ''Time Bomb'' (Alex Delaware), a 1990 murder mystery novel in the Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman * Time Bomb (Hinton novel), ''Time Bomb'' (Hinton novel), a 2005 young adult novel by Nigel Hinton * ''Time Bomb'', a 1955 science fiction novel by Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pickwick Papers (1952 Film)
''The Pickwick Papers'' is a 1952 British historical comedy drama film written and directed by Noel Langley and starring James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick and Joyce Grenfell. It is based on the Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel of the same name. It was made by Renown Pictures who had successfully released another Dickens adaptation '' Scrooge'' the previous year. The film was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. Shot in black-and-white, the film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey with costumes by Beatrice Dawson. It premiered at the Gaumont Cinema at Haymarket in London on 14 November 1952. In 1954, the Soviet Union paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack. The film was followed a month later by a Russian reprint of Dickens' book, in 150,000 copies. Cast * James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent's Last Case (1952 Film)
''Trent's Last Case'' is a 1952 British detective film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles and John McCallum. It was produced by Wilcox as part of a distribution agreement with Republic Pictures. It was based on the 1913 novel '' Trent's Last Case'' by E. C. Bentley, and had been filmed previously in the UK with Clive Brook in 1920, and in a 1929 US version. Plot A major international financier, Sigsbee Manderson, is found shot dead in the grounds of his Hampshire country estate. ''The Record'' newspaper sends its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to cover the story. Trent manages to get past the police cordon and speak to Inspector Murch, the detective leading the investigation. At the inquest, John Marlowe gives evidence that Manderson gave him instructions to go to Dover to meet a man named George Harrison. Mr Manderson said he would travel with Marlowe as far as the golf course and walk back to the house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hour Of 13
''The Hour of 13'' is a 1952 British historical mystery film directed by Harold French and starring Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams and Roland Culver. It was made at Elstree Studios by the British subsidiary of MGM. The film's sets were designed by the German-born art director Alfred Junge. Some location shooting took place around London including Kensington Gardens. The film is a remake of the 1934 thriller ''The Mystery of Mr. X'', based on the novel ''X v. Rex'' by Philip MacDonald. Plot Reminiscent of the Jack The Ripper school with a period setting in gaslit London, but this time the mysterious killer is The Terror who is murdering policemen. Lawford plays the handsome gentleman thief Nicholas Revel who gets himself involved in the murders, and the theft of a valuable emerald. The treatment is seldom serious yet is smartly resolved with a supporting cast of British stalwarts. Cast * Peter Lawford as Nicholas Revel * Dawn Addams as Jane Frensham * Roland Culver as Connor * Derek B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret People (film)
''Secret People'' is a 1952 British drama film, directed by Thorold Dickinson and produced by Sidney Cole for Ealing Studios, with screenplay by Thorold Dickinson and Wolfgang Wilhelm, acknowledgement to Joyce Cary and additional dialogue by Christianna Brand. ''Secret People'' stars Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani and Audrey Hepburn and premiered in the U.K. on 8 February 1952. The film provided Audrey Hepburn with her first significant film role, leading to her big breakthrough in ''Roman Holiday''. Plot In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London as their father is about to be executed by his country's dictator. Seven years later, Maria unexpectedly meets Louis, her childhood sweetheart, who is engaged in a plot to assassinate the dictator. Maria is persuaded to play an active part in the plan, but it all goes horribly wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent waitress, causing Maria much distress. Cast Audrey Hepburn After having appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Wives' Tale
''Young Wives' Tale'', also known as ''Fun for Four'', is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Derek Farr, and Guy Middleton. The film is based on the 1949 play '' Young Wives' Tale'' by Ronald Jeans. It features one of Audrey Hepburn's earliest film roles, albeit a minor one, as Eve Lester. Plot During the post-World War II housing shortage, Bruce and Mary are a married couple who both have professional jobs and own their own house, and they let out rooms, including to another married couple, Rodney and Sabina, because Sabina is a friend of Mary. Both couples have an infant child, and the presence of a nanny for the two children exacerbates the problems caused by the crowding. Another young female lodger and Sabina's persistent old beau intensify the tensions. Cast * Joan Greenwood as Sabina Pennant * Nigel Patrick as Rodney Pennant * Derek Farr as Bruce Banning * Guy Middleton as Victor Manifold * Athene Seyler as N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
