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Memorial Enterprises
Memorial Enterprises was a theatre and film production company established by actors Albert Finney and Michael Medwin in 1965. It had some huge successes such as ''Spring and Port Wine''. It backed early films of Tony Scott, Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears and Lindsay Anderson. ''Filmink'' argued the company should be better known than it is due to is influence Select credits *''Spring and Port Wine'' (1965) - stage play *''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' (1967) - stage play *''The Burning'' (1967) - short *'' Privilege'' (1967) - film *''Charlie Bubbles'' (1968) - film *'' If....'' (1968) - film *''Spring and Port Wine'' (1970) - film *''The Engagement'' (1970) - film *''Loving Memory'' (1970) - short feature *'' Gumshoe'' (1971) - film *''Bleak Moments'' (1971) - film *''O Lucky Man! ''O Lucky Man!'' is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during the early 1960s, debuting with '' The Entertainer'' (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. He is known for his roles in '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960), '' Tom Jones'' (1963), '' Two for the Road'' (1967), '' Scrooge'' (1970), '' Annie'' (1982), ''The Dresser'' (1983), '' Miller's Crossing'' (1990), '' A Man of No Importance'' (1994), '' Erin Brockovich'' (2000), '' Big Fish'' (2003), '' A Good Year'' (2006), '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007), ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' (2007), and the James Bond film ''Skyfall'' (2012), and for his performances on stage and television. A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Silver Bear and Volpi Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Medwin
Michael Hugh Medwin (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer. Life and career Medwin was born in London. He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940. Medwin's West End theatre credits include '' Man and Superman'', ''The Rivals'', '' Love for Love'', ''Duckers and Lovers'', '' Alfie'', '' St Joan of the Stockyards'', and '' What the Butler Saw''.Biographical note for Michael Medwin, from programme for ''Noises Off'', Savoy Theatre, December 1984. At the National Theatre he played a season which included '' Weapons of Happiness'' (Ralph Makepeace), ''Volpone'' (Corvino) and ''The Madras House''. He appeared in ''Black Ball Game'' at the Lyric Hammersmith. He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of ''Noises Off'' in the early 1980s. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring And Port Wine
''Spring and Port Wine'' is a 1959 stage play by Bill Naughton. The drama is set in Bolton and concerns the Crompton family, especially Rafe, the father, and his attempts to assert his authority in the household as his children grow up. Background The original version, ''My Flesh, My Blood'', was a BBC radio play broadcast on 17 August 1957 in the ''Saturday Night Theatre'' series. By April 1958, a version for BBC Television had been broadcast and, in October 1959, a stage adaptation was presented at the Bolton Hippodrome. Retitled ''Spring and Port Wine'', the play was first produced in Birmingham prior to opening at London's Mermaid Theatre in November 1965, with Alfred Marks (as Rafe), Ruth Dunning (as Daisy), John Alderton (as Harold), Jennifer Wilson (as Florence), Jan Carey (as Hilda), Ray Mort (as Arthur), Gretchen Franklin (as Betsy Jane) and Melvyn Hayes (as Wilfred) in the cast. It was produced by Allan Davis and Michael Medwin, in association with the Mermaid The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' is a 1967 play by the English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. Synopsis The play centres on a British couple, Bri and Sheila, who are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl named Josephine, who has cerebral palsy. She uses a wheelchair and is nonverbal, which her parents see as unable to communicate. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of her parents' lives since her birth, taking a heavy toll on their marriage. Sheila gives Josephine as much of a life as she can, while Bri wants the child institutionalised and has begun to entertain chilling fantasies of killing himself and Josephine. Characters * Bri * Grace * Joe * Freddie * Pam * Sheila Productions After its premiere in Glasgow in 1967, ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' opened in London's West End in 1967 then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privilege (film)
''Privilege'' is a 1967 British musical film, musical science fiction film, science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Watkins, starring English singer Paul Jones (singer), Paul Jones and model Jean Shrimpton. It tells the story of a famous popstar, Steven Shorter, who is used as a tool by the state to divert people from political activity, and keep the population in check. It was produced by John Heyman. Johnny Speight wrote the story, and Norman Bogner wrote the script. Plot The story is presented as a narrated documentary, set in a near-future 1970s England, and concerning a disillusioned pop singer, Steven Shorter, who is the most loved celebrity in the country. His stage show involves him appearing on stage in a jail cell with handcuffs, beaten by police, to the horror and sympathy of the audience. It is described that the two main parties of England have formed a coalition government and encourage the success of Shorter to placate the masses and divert them from p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Bubbles
''Charlie Bubbles'' is a 1968 British comedy-drama film directed by Albert Finney (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Finney, Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli. The screenplay was by Shelagh Delaney. A writer returns to his home city after achieving success in London. Plot Successful writer Charlie Bubbles glides around in a gold Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III convertible – CB 1E. Reminded by a phone call from his ex-wife Lottie that he has promised to take their son Jack to a football match, Bubbles sets off from London with his secretary Eliza to drive to Manchester. The next day he drives to Lottie's farm, and it becomes obvious that visits are few and far between. Father and son go to a football match and eat hotdogs from their private box at Old Trafford. An old school friend turned newspaper reporter enters the box and they chat awkwardly for a few moments. The film then sharply cuts to scenes outside the stadium where Bubbles is desperately looking for Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring And Port Wine (film)
''Spring and Port Wine'' is a 1970 British film starring James Mason based on the play of the same name. Plot Rafe Crompton works in a weaving mill. He is a proud man but not a rich man. He lives in a garden city style council house beyond the standard brick terraces of the town. At the end of the week he gathers the various wages from his children and passes the money to his wife Daisy who, with eldest daughter Florence, keeps the family budget in order, often lending her mother the small sum required to balance the housekeeping book. However, Daisy is prone to making allowances for unexpected pecuniary challenges; at the beginning of the film she feels forced to lend a neighbour cash to avoid the reposession of a hire purchase TV, although she initially refuses the neighbour (Mrs Duckworth) a loan, thus enraging Mrs Duckworth who went on to chide Daisy for allowing her husband to micromanage the housekeeping which she considers to be women’s work. This prompts Daisy to borrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving Memory
''Loving Memory'' is a 1970 black and white psychological drama film written and directed by Tony Scott, credited as Anthony Scott. This 52 minute film was made 12 years before Scott's feature directorial debut, '' The Hunger''. It was partly financed by the actor Albert Finney and the BFI Production Board, and was shown at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film concerns an elderly couple, who turn out to be a brother and sister left traumatized by the Second World War. As is also revealed, they were involved in the accidental death of a bicycle rider. Instead of reporting the accident, they bring the body home with them. Cast *Rosamund Greenwood as Ambrose's sister *Roy Evans as Ambrose * David Pugh as Mr Speke, Young Man Production Of the budget, £6,500 came from Albert Finney Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for movie acting during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumshoe (film)
''Gumshoe'' is a 1971 British black comedy film directed (in his debut) by Stephen Frears and starring Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay. It was written by Neville Smith. The film follows a bingo-caller who dreams of being a private eye. Plot Eddie Ginley works at a bingo hall in Liverpool, England, but dreams of becoming a stylish private investigator like those he has read about and seen in films. After finally placing an advertisement in a local newspaper announcing his detective services, he receives a mysterious offer. Although Ginley is inexperienced and clueless in certain aspects of investigating, he soon realises that he is entangled in a serious case involving drugs, murder, and even his own family. Cast Production The film contains shots of Liverpool buildings that have long since been demolished, including the employment exchange on Leece Street. Several scenes in the London part of the narrative take place in and around the occult Atlantis Booksho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleak Moments
''Bleak Moments'' is a 1971 British comedy-drama film by Mike Leigh in his directorial debut. Leigh's screenplay is based on a 1970 stage play at the Open Space Theatre, about the dysfunctional life of a young secretary. Plot Sylvia leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair. Cast * Anne Raitt as Sylvia * Sarah Stephenson as Hilda, Sylvia's sister * Eric Allan as Peter * Joolia Cappleman as Pat * Mike Bradwell as Norman * Donald Sumpter as Norman's friend * Liz Smith as Pat's mother Production Background The film is based on a stage play which presented at the Open Space Theatre in March 1970. Leigh says the play was created in three weeks. He cast George Coulouris as Sylvia's father but he left after four days. The ''Daily Telegraph'' said "the actors succeed in creating an atmosphere of tangi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Lucky Man!
''O Lucky Man!'' is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in Anderson's '' if....'' (1968). ''O Lucky Man!'' is the second film in the Mick Travis Trilogy, all starring McDowell, concluding with '' Britannia Hospital'' (1982). Plot The film is prefaced by a short story that begins "Once Upon a Time", a silent, black-and-white film that depicts an unnamed country filled with peasant laborers. They pick coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One worker (McDowell with black hair and a mustache) pockets a few beans for himself ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table"), but he is discovered by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat magistrate who slobbers as he removes his cigar only to say "Guilty." The foreman draws his machete and lays it across the unfortunate laborer's wrists, bound to a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law And Disorder (1974 Film)
''Law and Disorder'' is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Ivan Passer, starring Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth and Karen Black. Plot In the crime-infested New York City of the 1970s, two residents and friends, Willie and Cy, decide to join the Auxiliary wing of the New York City Police Department to help take back their neighborhood from criminals. Willie is a taxi driver who aspires to buy a diner, while Cy is the owner of a struggling beauty salon. They are joined on the volunteer police force by their friends Bobby, Elliot, Ken and Pete. The group are eating dinner at Cy's apartment when Willie's wife Sally phones to say that their daughter Karen has been attacked in the elevator. Karen specifies that the attacker was white just as Elliot leads a black man into Willie's apartment, believing him to be the culprit. Willie lets the man go. The auxiliary police force gets its uniforms and gathers for its first patrol. The unit is only authorized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
