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London Belongs To Me
''London Belongs to Me'' (also known as ''Dulcimer Street'') is a British film released in 1948, directed by Sidney Gilliat, and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on the novel ''London Belongs to Me'' by Norman Collins, which was also the basis for a seven-part series made by Thames Television shown in 1977. Plot The film concerns the residents of a large terraced house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Among them are the landlady, Mrs Vizzard (played by Joyce Carey), who is a widow and a believer in spiritualism; Mr and Mrs Josser ( Wylie Watson and Fay Compton), and their teenage daughter Doris ( Susan Shaw); the eccentric spiritualist medium Mr Squales (Sim); the colourful Connie Coke ( Ivy St. Helier), the young motor mechanic Percy Boon (Attenborough) and his mother ( Gladys Henson). Percy is in love with the Jossers' daughter and turns to crime to raise money to impress her with, but he bungles a car theft and finds himself a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and '' Night Train to Munich'' (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama '' Millions Like Us'' (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with '' The Rake's Progress'', which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including ''Green for Danger'' (1946), '' London Belongs to Me'' (1948) and '' State Secret'' (1950). He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera '' Our Man in Havana'', based on the novel by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medium (spirituality)
Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship or spirit channelling, including séance tables, trance, and ouija. The practice is associated with spiritualism and spiritism. A similar New Age practice is known as channeling. Belief in psychic ability is widespread despite the absence of empirical evidence for its existence. Scientific researchers have attempted to ascertain the validity of claims of mediumship for more than one hundred years and have consistently failed to confirm them. As late as 2005, an experiment undertaken by the British Psychological Society reaffirmed that test subjects who self-identified as mediums demonstrated no mediumistic ability. Mediumship gained popularity during the nineteenth century when ouija boards were used as a source of entertainment. Investigat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Howard
Arthur Howard (born Arthur John Steiner; 18 January 1910 – 18 June 1995) was an English stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Camberwell, London, Howard was the younger son of Lilian (née Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His brother was the film actor Leslie Howard and his sister the casting director Irene Howard. He married the actress Jean Compton Mackenzie (a daughter of the actor Frank Compton) in 1936 and they had a son together, the stage actor Alan Howard.Michael Covene"Alan Howard obituary", ''The Guardian'', 18 February 2015 Arthur appeared in several television programmes such as '' Whack-O'', a school comedy in which he played the hapless assistant headmaster Pettigrew to Jimmy Edwards's headmaster, and he was in the 1960 film version '' Bottoms Up''. He appeared in many films, including '' American Friends'' and '' The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins'', and had the small role of Cavendish in the James Bond film '' Moonraker''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Trouncer
Cecil Stallard Trouncer (5 April 1898 – 15 December 1953) was an English actor. His daughter Ruth Trouncer also took up acting. Early life Cecil Trouncer was born in Southport on 5 April 1898 and was educated at Clifton College. During the First World War he served in the 3rd Battalion, of the Dorset Regiment.Obituary in ''The Times'', 16 December 1953, Page 8 Filmography * '' Pygmalion'' (1938) * ''While the Sun Shines'' (1947) * ''London Belongs to Me'' (1948) * ''Saraband for Dead Lovers'' (1948) * '' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) * '' The Lady with a Lamp'' (1951) * ''The Magic Box'' (1951) * ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1952) * ''Isn't Life Wonderful!'' (1953) * ''The Weak and the Wicked ''The Weak and the Wicked'' (U.S. title: ''Young and Willing'') is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Glynis Johns and Diana Dors. It was written by Anne Burnaby, Thompson and Joan Henry, based on the 1952 au ...'' (1954) References External links * {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Barnard
Ivor Barnard (13 June 1887 – 30 June 1953) was an English stage, radio and film actor. He was an original member of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where he was a notable Shylock and Caliban. He was the original Water Rat in the first London production of A. A. Milne's "Toad of Toad Hall". In 1929 he appeared on stage as Blanquet, in "Bird in Hand" at the Morosco Theatre in New York, after a successful run in London's West End (Laurence Olivier was the juvenile). The part had been specially written for him by John Drinkwater. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1921 and 1953. He appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock film '' The 39 Steps'' in 1935. In 1943, he played the stationmaster in the Ealing war film ''Undercover''. He also appeared as Wemmick in David Lean's ''Great Expectations'' (1946), and as the Chairman of the Workhouse, in Lean's film ''Oliver Twist'' (1948). One of his last film appearances was as the murderer Major Jack Ross in John Huston's '' Beat the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Denham
William Maurice Denham (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes in his long career. Early life Denham was born on 23 December 1909 in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Eleanor Winifred (née Lillico) and Norman Denham. He was the third child of four. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained as a lift engineer. Like fellow actor James Robertson Justice, he played amateur rugby for Beckenham RFC. Career Denham became an actor in 1934, and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938, continuing to perform in that medium until 1997. Denham initially made his name in radio comedy series such as ''It's That Man Again'' (''ITMA'') and ''Much Binding in the Marsh'', which established him as a familiar radio character (providing over sixty different voices, female as well as male, according to a radio interview in November 1988), and later provided all the voices for the animated version of ''Animal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Summerfield
Eleanor Audrey Summerfield (7 March 1921 – 13 July 2001) was an English actress who appeared in many plays, films and television series. She is known for her roles in ''Laughter in Paradise'' (1951), '' Final Appointment'' (1954), '' Odongo'' (1956), '' Dentist in the Chair'' (1960), '' On the Fiddle'' (1961), '' The Running Man'' (1963) and ''Some Will, Some Won't'' (1970). Early life and career She was born as Eleanor Audrey Summerfield in St Pancras, London, on 7 March 1921. Summerfield trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1937. Summerfield made her screen debut in the 1946 television drama ''A Phoenix Too Frequent'', which was based on a play of the same name. Her first stage show was ''Her Excellency'' at the London Hippodrome in 1949. In the mid-1960s, she played P. G. Wodehouse's character Aunt Dahlia on the black-and-white television series '' The World of Wooster'' (1965–1967) aired on BBC One. She was also a regular member in the panel game ''Just a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared in more than 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned over 40 years. He was the second-ever Welsh-born actor to win an Academy Award (following Ray Milland for ''The Lost Weekend''), winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in ''Ben-Hur'' (1959), with an additional nomination for ''Tom Jones'' (1963). As a stage actor, he was a renowned Shakespearean and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the original production ''Look Homeward, Angel''. He was also a BAFTA Award and a three-time Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (for ''Tom Jones''; 1963, ''Oliver!''; 1968, and '' The Fixer,'' also 1968), and a Clarence Derwent Award winner. Early life Griffith was born in Marian-glas, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Crawford (actor)
Andrew Crawford (October 24, 1917 – March 18, 1994) was a Scottish stage, film and television actor. Career A former publicist, he made his film debut in ''The Smugglers'' (1947), and with Rank's support, proceeded to make a name for himself with prominent roles during the late forties. These included parts in movies such as ''Broken Journey'' (1948), '' Trottie True'', '' Diamond City'' and ''Boys in Brown'' (all 1949). On Stage he performed at the Comedy Theatre, London on 17 March 1946, in the Green Room Rags, playing opposite John Witty, Harold Warrender and Louise Hampton in ''And No Birds Sing''. Smaller roles followed and he later turned character actor in films such as ''Shadow of the Cat'' (1961) and ''80,000 Suspects'' (1963), as well as television series including ''The Buccaneers'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''Danger Man'', ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'', ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (BBC 1971) and ''Crown Court The Crown Court is the criminal trial cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houses Of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England. It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building. The palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom; "Westminster" has become a metonym for the UK Parliament and the British Government, and the Westminster system of government commemorates the name of the palace. The Elizabeth Tower of the palace, nicknamed Big Ben, is a landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general. The palace has been a Grade I listed building since 1970 and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. The building was originally constructed in the eleventh century as a royal palace and was the primary residence of the kings of England until 1512, when a fire destroyed the royal apartments. The monarch moved to the adjacent Palace of Whitehall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemency
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction. Pardons can be viewed as a tool to overcome miscarriage of justice, allowing a grant of freedom to someone who is believed to be wrongly convicted or subjected to an excessive penalty. The second-best theory of pardons views pardons as second-best to fair justice. Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have "paid their debt to society", or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them. In some jurisdictions of some nations, accepting a pardon may ''implicitly'' constitute an admission of guilt; the offer is refused in some cases. Cases of wrongful conviction are in recent times more often dealt with by appeal rather than by pardon; however, a pardon is sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialism
Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes the Economic ideology, economic, Political philosophy, political, and Social theory, social theories and Political movement, movements associated with the implementation of such systems. Social ownership can take various forms, including State ownership, public, Community ownership, community, Collective ownership, collective, cooperative, or Employee stock ownership, employee.: "Just as private ownership defines capitalism, social ownership defines socialism. The essential characteristic of socialism in theory is that it destroys social hierarchies, and therefore leads to a politically and economically egalitarian society. Two closely related consequences follow. First, every individual is entitled to an equal ownership share that earns an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
