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Olga Lindo
Olga Lindo (13 July 1899 – 7 May 1968) was an English actress. She was the daughter of Frank Lindo, a well-known actor, manager and author. She made her stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 26 December 1913. She later joined her father's touring company in a range of roles. For Basil Dean she appeared in '' R.U.R'' in 1923, and in 1925 she gave what ''The Times'' described as a formidable performance as Sadie Thompson in Maugham's ''Rain'' at the Garrick Theatre. She toured in South Africa in 1930 and 1934 in a variety of parts. Her repertoire ranged from the classics to farce. In 1935 she played Abigail Hill in Norman Ginsbury's historical work '' Viceroy Sarah''. She also acted in films. Partial filmography * '' The Shadow Between'' (1931) - Nell Baker * ''Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) - Tourist * '' The Case of Gabriel Perry'' (1935) - Mrs. Perry * '' Dark World'' (1935) - Eleanor * ''The Last Journey'' (1936) - Mrs. Holt * ''A Romance in Flanders'' (1937) - Mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Inspector Calls (1954 Film)
''An Inspector Calls'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham and Eileen Moore. It is based upon the 1945 play '' An Inspector Calls'' by J.B. Priestley and was adapted for the screen by Desmond Davis. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Joseph Bato. Plot In 1912, the prosperous Birling family sit at a dining table at the end of a dinner party with their friend, Gerald Croft, who is engaged to the daughter, Sheila. Mother chastises Eric, the son, for drinking too much. Father discusses the likelihood of war and after the meal discusses his possible knighthood with Gerald over port and cigars. They are interrupted by a man calling himself Inspector Poole, investigating the suicide of a working-class girl, Eva Smith, whose death is linked to each family member. Eva has poisoned herself. She left a diary. Eva was one of Mr Birling's workers in his factory. In a flashback to 1910, Eva is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Journey
''The Last Journey'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Williams and Judy Gunn. Synopsis A train driver (Julien Mitchell) on his last journey before retirement thinks his fireman is having an affair with his wife. The driver intends to kill himself and his passengers by crashing the train. The train is filled with colourful characters, including a psychoanalyst who persuades the driver not to do it. Cast * Godfrey Tearle as Sir Wilfred Rhodes * Hugh Williams as Gerald Winter * Judy Gunn as Diana Gregory * Mickey Brantford as Tom * Julien Mitchell as Bob Holt * Olga Lindo as Mrs. Holt * Michael Hogan as Charlie * Frank Pettingell as Goddard * Eliot Makeham as Pip * Eve Gray as Daisy Production The film was made at Twickenham Studios and is considered a quota quickie. Critical reception ''The New York Times'' wrote, "there are some engaging directorial touches, and there is some excellent photography"; and ''Britmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedelia (film)
''Bedelia'' is a 1946 British melodrama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter and Barry K. Barnes. It is an adaptation of the 1945 novel '' Bedelia'' by Vera Caspary with events relocated from the United States to Monaco and England. Plot Bedelia is newly married and on her honeymoon in Monte Carlo with her husband, Charlie Carrington, in the autumn of 1938. She has a strong aversion to being photographed by her husband, claiming she is not photogenic. Spotting her in a sidewalk cafe, young painter Ben Chaney starts drawing a sketch of her; seeing this, she abruptly turns her head away. He encounters her husband and has a drink with the couple. When the husband notices a pearl ring, she claims it is a cheap piece of fake jewellery, though Chaney knows otherwise. He was speaking to a jewellery store proprietor when she picked up the ring; the expert offered her 100,000 francs for the flawless black pearl. Chaney begins probing into her pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I See A Dark Stranger
''I See a Dark Stranger'' (U.S. title: ''The Adventuress'') is a 1946 British World War II spy comedy film directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and starred Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard. Plot Ireland, 1937. Young Bridie Quilty has grown up listening to her father's heroic tales of the Irish Revolution. As a result, she develops a hatred for everything and everyone British, especially "the wicked murdering blackguard" Oliver Cromwell. By 1944, Mr. Quilty has died. Bridie, who is now 21, sets out for Dublin to carve a life of her own, hoping to join the IRA. On the train, she shares a compartment with J. Miller, a businessman returned from abroad. He is also a German agent who's entered Ireland unencumbered thanks to lax security. He shortly gets his assignment—to break a fellow spy out of prison. Miller recruits Bridie, who gets a job at a hotel and bar in Wynbridge Vale. Soon she becomes acquainted with a certain sergeant, who unwittingly provides her inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Boat To Dublin
''Night Boat to Dublin'' is a 1946 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom. It was written by Huntington and Robert Hall. Plot During the Second World War, a captured German spy is executed at the Tower of London, without revealing the whereabouts of Professor Hansen, a refugee Swedish scientist in Britain. He is believed to be unwittingly passing information on the atomic bomb to Germany through the neutral Irish Free State. British intelligence attempts to locate him and break this link. Two intelligence officers, Captain Grant and Captain Wilson, travel incognito on the overnight ferry to Dublin. They observe the German contact, Keitel, and their suspicion falls on lawyer Paul Faber. Grant manages to get a clerical job in Faber's London office, using a false identity. He allows himself to be exposed as an ex-army officer who's gone AWOL, and allows himself to be blackmail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rake's Progress (film)
''The Rake's Progress'' is a 1945 British comedy-drama film. In the United States, the title was changed to ''Notorious Gentleman''. The film caused controversy with U.S. censors of the time, who trimmed scenes for what was considered graphic amoral and sexual content. Plot The plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway. He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial. Sent to South America after his father pulls a favour from a friend, he is fired for heckling the managing director while drunk. A friend offers him a job, but he responds by seducing his wife and is found out. His jobs decline, as he moves from employment as racing driver to shop assistant to dancing partner. He lives a life of womanising and heavy drinking and constantly runs up large debts, which his family has to pay. One girl tries to kill herself. Driving while drunk and taking risks, he crashes and causes the death of his father, Colonel Kenway. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Me The Stars
''Give Me the Stars'' is a 1945 British musical drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Leni Lynn, Will Fyffe, Jackie Hunter and Olga Lindo. American Toni Martin travels to Scotland and finds herself looking after her cranky grandfather Hector MacTavish, and even taking over his music hall act. Cast * Leni Lynn - Toni Martin * Will Fyffe - Hector MacTavish * Jackie Hunter - Lyle Mitchell * Olga Lindo - Lady Hester * Emrys Jones - Jack Ross * Margaret Vyner - Patricia Worth * Anthony Holles - Achille Lebrun * Grace Arnold - Mrs Gossage * Patric Curwen - Sir John Worth * Robert Griffith - Dick Winter * Johnnie Schofield - Ted James * Janet Morrison - Secretary * Hal Gordon - Taxi Driver * Joss Ambler - George Burns * Hilda Bayley - Mr Ross * Ben Williams - Grant Critical reception ''Allmovie AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors. , AllMovie.com and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Flies (1944 Film)
''Time Flies'' is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott. The screenplay was by J.O.C. Orton, Ted Kavanagh and Howard Irving Young. The story concerns two music hall performers, an inventor and a con-man who travel back to Elizabethan times using a time machine. Plot Entertainers Bill and Susie Barton are on tour when Bill's old friend Tommy shows up soliciting funds for a new scheme, Time Ferry Services Limited. Bill has given Tommy $10,000 to help Professor McAndrew develop the Time Ball, a primitive time machine. Enraged, Susie goes to the lavish apartment where Tommy and the Professor are staying to demand the money back. However, the group discovers that Tommy is actually a valet and has been pretending to be wealthy by borrowing his employer's apartment and clothes. His boss calls the police and the group hides in the Time Ball. Tommy closes the hatch, accidentally activating the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When We Are Married (film)
''When We Are Married'' is a 1943 British comedy-drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Sydney Howard, Raymond Huntley and Olga Lindo. Plot The film is a screen version of the 1938 stage play by J. B. Priestley, in which three Edwardian era Yorkshire couples, who were all married on the same day 25 years earlier, gather to celebrate their joint silver wedding anniversary, only to be told that due to a legal technicality, their marriages were not valid and that for the past quarter-century they have all effectively been living in sin. Some react with horror at potential scandal, while others glimpse the possibility of freedom from a deadbeat spouse, or regret potential loves that got away after they were "married". Much drama ensues as the couples each re-evaluate their respective marriages, but after grievances have been aired and new understandings forged, all ends happily. The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', known for its exacting standards, complimented the film as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alibi (1942 Film)
An alibi (, from the Latin, '' alibī'', meaning "somewhere else") is a statement by a person under suspicion in a crime that they were in a different place when the offence was committed. During a police investigation, all suspects are usually asked to provide details of their whereabouts during the relevant time period, which, where possible, would usually be confirmed by other persons or in other ways (such as by checking phone records, or credit card receipts, use of CCTV, etc.). During a criminal trial, an alibi is a defence raised by the accused as proof that they could not have committed the crime because they were in some other place at the time the alleged offence was committed. The ''Criminal Law Deskbook'' of Criminal Procedure states: "Alibi is different from all of the other defences; it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent." Duty to disclose In some legal jurisdictions there may be a requirement that the accused disclose an alibi defence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Yesterday
''Return to Yesterday'' is a 1940 British comedy-drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Clive Brook and Anna Lee. It was written by Margaret Kennedy, Angus MacPhail, , Roland Pertwee and Stevenson based on Robert Morley's 1937 play '' Goodness, How Sad''. The film was made at Ealing Studios. Synopsis A British Hollywood star goes AWOL on his way back to Hollywood after a visit in London. The reason is an impromptu decision to leave the train on his way to the ocean liner in Southampton when it passes the seaside resort where he once worked as a struggling actor at a local theatre. Without anyone but his old landlady realising who he is, he then agrees to appear in latest production of a travelling repertory theatre company when it loses its leading man a few days before the premiere, and falls in love with the leading lady. Cast Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "The plot is by no means original, and the development follows conventional l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Look Down (film)
''The Stars Look Down'' is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same title, about injustices in a mining town in North East England. The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley. The film is a ''New York Times'' Critics' Pick and is listed in ''The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made''. Plot Coal miners, led by Robert "Bob" Fenwick, go on strike, refusing to work in a particular section of the mine due to the great danger of flooding, despite their own union supporting Neptune Colliery's owner, Richard Barras. Tensions rise as the strikers go hungry. Finally, some of them break into a butcher's shop and loot it. Bob Fenwick tries to stop it, but ends up being arrested himself. The miners give in and go back to work. Bob's son "Davey" wins a scholarship and moves away to attend school. While studying, Davey runs into an old friend, Joe G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |