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Meet Simon Cherry
''Meet Simon Cherry'' is a 1949 British second feature ('B') mystery film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Hugh Moxey. The screenplay was by Grayson and A. R. Rawlinson based on the BBC radio series ''Meet the Rev'' by Gale Pedrick, featuring the crime solving cleric. The film was originally to be called ''Meet the Rev'', but when the film was trade shown on Nov. 22, 1949, the title was changed. It was released theatrically in January 1950. Hammer had intended to produce a series of Simon Cherry films, but cancelled the project after this film failed to become a hit. Plot When the Rev. Simon ("The Rev") Cherry sets off for a much needed holiday, his car breaks down in a storm and he is forced to stay overnight in a manor house belonging to Lady Harling. The following morning, the body of Lady Harling's invalid daughter Lisa Colville is discovered, apparently murdered, and the Rev must bring his crime solving skills to the case. Lisa's cousin Henry accuses Lisa's husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Grayson
Godfrey Ramsey H. Grayson (1913, Birkenhead, Cheshire – 1998, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film director. Selected filmography * ''Doctor Morelle'' (1949) * ''Meet Simon Cherry'' (1949) * ''The Adventures of PC 49'' (1949) * ''What the Butler Saw (1950 film), What the Butler Saw'' (1950) * ''The Lady Craved Excitement'' (1950) * ''Room to Let (1950 film), Room to Let'' (1950) * ''To Have and to Hold (1951 film), To Have and to Hold'' (1951) * ''Innocent Meeting'' (1949) * ''The Fake (1953 film), The Fake'' (1953) * ''Black Ice (1957 film), Black Ice'' (1957) * ''Woman's Temptation'' (1959) * ''An Honourable Murder'' (1960) * ''Escort for Hire (1960)'' * ''The Spider's Web (1960 film), The Spider's Web'' (1960) * ''The Pursuers'' (1961) * ''The Durant Affair'' (1962) * ''She Always Gets Their Man'' (1962) * ''The Lamp in Assassin Mews'' (1962) * ''The Battleaxe (film), The Battleaxe'' (1962) * ''Design for Loving'' (1962) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bailey (British Actor)
John or Jack Bailey may refer to: People Politicians * John Bailey (MP) (died 1436), English politician * John Bailey (Australian politician) (born 1954), Australian politician * Jack Bailey (Maryland politician) (born 1965), American politician * Jack Bailey (Georgia politician) (1812–1897), American slave owner, politician, lawyer and soldier * John Bailey (Massachusetts politician) (1786–1835), American politician * Jack Bailey (New South Wales politician) (1871–1947), Australian politician * John Edgar Bailey (1897–1958), Northern Irish politician * John H. Bailey (1864–1940), American politician, senator and representative in Texas * John Moran Bailey (1904–1975), United States politician, chair of the Democratic National Committee * John Mosher Bailey (1838–1916), U.S. Representative from New York * John Bailey (Irish politician) (1945–2019), member of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council * Jack Bailey (co-operator) (1898–1969), Welsh co-operative acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Mystery 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, colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Films
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...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] |
Leslie Halliwell
Robert James Leslie Halliwell (23 February 1929 – 21 January 1989) was a British film critic, encyclopaedist and television rights buyer for ITV, the British commercial network, and Channel 4. He is best known for his reference guides, '' Filmgoer's Companion'' (1965), a single volume film-related encyclopaedia featuring biographies (with credits) and technical terms, and ''Halliwell's Film Guide'' (1977), which is dedicated to individual films. Anthony Quinton wrote in the '' Times Literary Supplement'': "Immersed in the enjoyment of these fine books, one should look up for a moment to admire the quite astonishing combination of industry and authority in one man which has brought them into existence." Halliwell's promotion of the cinema through his books and seasons of "golden oldies'"on Channel 4 won him awards from the London Film Critics' Circle, the British Film Institute and a posthumous BAFTA.''Broadcast'' magazine, 28 June 1985. Early life Born in Bolton, Lancashir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ... company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. In 2008, the company sold its founding product, the '' TV Guide'' magazine and the entire print magazine division, to a private buyout firm operated by Andrew Nikou, who then set up the print operation as TV Guide Magazine LLC. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become '' TV Guide'' magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Movies
Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). In the United Kingdom, Sky Cinema channels currently broadcast on the Sky satellite and Virgin Media cable platforms, and in addition Sky Cinema on demand content are available through these as well as via Now, EE TV and TalkTalk TV. In 2016, Sky rebranded its television film channel operations under one single branding on 8 July, the channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland were rebranded from Sky Movies to Sky Cinema; on 22 September in Germany and Austria, the Sky Cinema brand (originally used for the flagship network) was extended to the German channels in the group formerly known as Sky Film; the Italian Sky Cinema channels followed suit on 5 November by adopting the brand packages introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland earlier. Output includes movie premieres from Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, and Sky original fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in September 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, it was the world's first broadcast listings magazine. In September 2023 it became the first broadcast listings magazine to reach and then pass its centenary. It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 16 August 2011, when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the German media group Hubert Burda. The magazine is published on Tuesdays and carries listings for the week from Saturday to Friday. Originally, listings ran from Sunday to Saturday: the changeover meant 8 October 1960 was listed twice, in successive issues. Since Christmas 1969, a 14-day double-duration issue has been published each December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picture Show (magazine)
''Picture Show'' was a weekly film magazine, published in the United Kingdom between 3 May 1919 and 31 December 1960. Retrieved 12 November 2012 It was one of the longest-running film entertainment magazines in Britain. Overview ''Picture Show'' was launched in 1919. It was published throughout its run by the / Fleetway Publications as a weekly magazine.[...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] |
