|
Landslide (1937 Film)
''Landslide'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Donovan Pedelty and starring Jimmy Hanley, Dinah Sheridan and Jimmy Mageean. It was written by Pedelty and David Evans. Plot After a visiting theatre troupe's performance concludes and the audience departs, a murder victim is found in a Welsh theatre. A local police officer instructs the remaining people that they must stay in the theatre while he seeks assistance. However, a torrential rain causes a landslide, leaving the actors, stage crew, police officer and local woman stranded in the theatre. They are trapped there for days with their only food what the local woman had in her bag – a small piece of cheese and her fish and chips. Then one of the people is attacked, and they realize that the murderer is still in the building. Cast * Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Haddon * Dinah Sheridan as Dinah Shaw * Jimmy Mageean as Harry McGovern * Ann Cavanagh as Lena Petrie * Elizabeth Inglis as Vera Grant * Bruno Barnabe as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donovan Pedelty
Donovan Pedelty (1903–1989) was a British journalist, screenwriter and film director. During the 1930s, Pedelty specialised in making quota quickies with Irish themes. These were generally not well received by critics.Chibnall p.31 Filmography Director * ''School for Stars'' (1935) * ''Flame in the Heather'' (1935) * ''School for Stars'' (1935) * ''The Luck of the Irish (1936 film), The Luck of the Irish'' (1936) * ''The Early Bird (1936 film), The Early Bird'' (1936) * ''Irish and Proud of It (film), Irish and Proud of It'' (1936) * ''Behind Your Back'' (1937) * ''First Night (film), First Night'' (1937) * ''Landslide (1937 film), Landslide'' (1937) * ''False Evidence (1937 film), False Evidence'' (1937) * ''Bedtime Story (1938 film), Bedtime Story'' (1938) * ''Murder Tomorrow'' (1938) Screenwriter * ''The Little Damozel (1933 film), The Little Damozel'' (1933) * ''That's a Good Girl'' (1933) * ''Seeing Is Believing (film), Seeing Is Believing'' (1934) * ''City of Beautiful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picturegoer
''Picturegoer'' was a fan magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1911 and 23 April 1960. Background The magazine was started in 1911 under the name ''The Pictures'' and in 1914 it merged with ''Picturegoer''. Following the merge it was renamed ''Pictures and The Picturegoer'', which continued until 1920. The same year it was renamed as ''Pictures for the Picturegoer''. It began publication with the name ''Picturegoer'' in January 1921. Odhams Press was the publisher of the magazine during the early years. It was initially published monthly through May 1931, switching to weekly publication on 30 May 1931 as ''Picturegoer Weekly''.British Library- Cinema and Film Periodicals: British and Irish, Picturegoer Retrieved 12 Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s English-language Films
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Wales
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white Films
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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Films
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * March 26 – London Films abandons production of '' I, Claudius'' two weeks after its female lead, Merle Oberon, is injured in a car crash. * April 16 – Laurel and Hardy comedy '' Way Out West'' premieres in the US. * May 7 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical comedy '' Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US. * May 11 – Drama '' Captains Courageous'', starring Spencer Tracy, premieres in New York, going into general release on June 25. * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. * June 11 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batsford Books
Batsford Books is an independent British book publisher. Batsford was founded in 1843 by Bradley Thomas Batsford. For some time it was an imprint of Pavilion Books. Upon the purchase of Pavilion Books by HarperCollins, on 1 December 2021, B. T. Batsford Ltd once again became an independent publishing house, with Pitkin as an imprint. Polly Powell, former owner of Pavilion Books, became the owner of Batsford Books and John Stachiewicz was appointed chairman. Harry Batsford, nephew of the founder Bradley Thomas Batsford, was the chairman but also an author for the company writing at least 11 books on English architecture and countryside (some reprinted into the 21st century). Many were co-authored by Charles Fry, Chief Editor and a director of the company. During the Depression years after 1928 there was a period when the firm tried to rely just on their books, illustrated by Batsford's nephew Brian Cook. A prominent chairman of the firm from 1952 until 1974 was Brian Batsford, kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Quinlan (film Critic)
David Quinlan is an English film critic, journalist, film historian and author. Quinlan was the film critic for the '' TVTimes'' from 1972 to 2006. Other contributions to film periodicals include ''Films Illustrated'', ''Photoplay'', '' Films and Filming'' and ''Film Review Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findin ...''. He co-edits the film review website PicturesThatTalk.com with Alan Frank.Pictures That Talk - About us Retrieved on 2008-03-20. Books Publications include: * ''Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Stars'' (five editions from 1981) * ''Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Di ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
