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River Beat
''River Beat'' is a 1954 British second feature noir crime film directed by Guy Green and starring John Bentley, Phyllis Kirk and Leonard White. It was written by Rex Rientis and distributed in the United States by Lippert Pictures. Plot Judy is a radio operator on an American ship duped into smuggling diamonds in the belief that she is delivering cigarettes. Stopped by Customs she is in further trouble when the man who involved her is found dead in the river. Customs Detective Dan Barker has fallen for Judy and faces a moral dilemma: he must find out whether or not she is guilty, while protecting her from the smugglers. Cast * John Bentley as Detective Inspector Dan Barker * Phyllis Kirk as Judy Roberts * Robert Ayres as Watford * Leonard White as Detective Sergeant Mack McLeod * Glyn Houston as Charlie Williamson * Patrick Jordan as Bert Fisher * Ewan Roberts as Customs Inspector J.S. Blake * David Hurst as Paddy McClure * Charles Lloyd-Pack as John Hendrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Green (filmmaker)
Guy Mervin Charles Green Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE British Society of Cinematographers, BSC (5 November 191315 September 2005) was an England, English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948 in film, 1948, he won an Academy Awards, Oscar as cinematographer for the film ''Great Expectations (1946 film), Great Expectations''. In 2002, Green was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA, and, in 2004, he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his lifetime contributions to British cinema. Biography Green was born in Frome, Somerset, England. He began working in film in 1929 and became a noted film cinematographer and a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. Green became a full-time director of photography in the mid-1940s, working on such films as David Lean's ''Oliver Twist (1948 film), Oliver Twist'' in 1948. About 1955 in film, 1955, Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Jordan
Albert Patrick Jordan (10 October 1923 – 10 January 2020) was a British stage, film and television actor. Biography He was born and raised in Harrow, Middlesex, the son of Margaret, a cook, and Albert Jordan, a regimental sergeant major. An accident while playing bows and arrows with his two brothers left him with a distinctive scar on his right cheek. He made his stage debut in a 1946 Old Vic production of ''Richard II'' at the New Theatre, which was directed by Ralph Richardson and featured Harry Andrews and Alec Guinness. With Old Vic he went on to perform in other Shakespearean plays, including ''Coriolanus'' and ''The Taming of the Shrew'', in the last of which also appeared Renée Asherson Dorothy Renée Ascherson (19 May 1915 – 30 October 2014), known professionally as Renée Asherson, was a British actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool .... Jordan remained friends wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stoll
John Stoll (13 December 1913 – 25 June 1990) was a British art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film '' Lawrence of Arabia''. During the 1950s, he worked largely on low-budget British feature films. Selected filmography * '' Glad Tidings'' (1953) * ''Flannelfoot'' (1953) * '' What Every Woman Wants'' (1954) * ''The Sleeping Tiger'' (1954) * ''The Crowded Day'' (1954) * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) * '' The Green Carnation'' (1954) * ''The Black Rider'' (1954) * '' The Harassed Hero'' (1954) * '' The Scarlet Web'' (1954) * '' The Happiness of Three Women'' (1954) * '' Where There's a Will'' (1955) * '' Marilyn'' (1955) * '' Keep It Clean'' (1956) * '' Passport to Treason'' (1956) * '' A Touch of the Sun'' (1956) * '' No Road Back'' (1957) * ''West of Suez'' (1957) * '' That Woman Opposite'' (1957) * ''The Camp on Blood Island'' (1958) * ''A Cry from the Streets'' (1958) * '' I Only Arsked!'' (1958) * '' Light Up the Sky!'' (1960) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are usually referring to a "practical location", which is any location that already exists in the real world. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter (2005 film), The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the Headquarters of the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus'' and ''The Illusionist (2006 film), The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Location shooting includes any practical location which resembles the location of a scene in the script; for example, students in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, film school of the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walton Studios
Walton Studios, previously named Hepworth Studios and Nettlefold Studios, was a film production studio in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England.hepworthfilm.org Retrieved 2011-12-28 Hepworth was a pioneering studio in the early 20th century and released the first film adaptation of '''' ('''', 1903). The decline of the British cinematic production industry in the mid-20th century led to a decline in work for the facility, and after failing to financially survive as a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Collingwood
Peter Trevor Collingwood (6 May 1920 – 23 September 2016) was an English-born actor who appeared in theatre roles, films, miniseries and serials from 1938 to 2003 in his native England and Australia. Collingwood was known for his portrayal of judges, military men and upper-crust befuddled types. He was also a playwright. Early life Collingwood was born in Kent(some sources give, Farnham, Surrey), England on 6 May 1920. He initially studied at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the Second World War, he also served in the British Navy including on the Greek submarine as liaison officer, but was discharged due to eye sight problems. He enrolled in the Embassy School of Acting at the Embassy Theatre, London, in 1937. His first professional acting job was in Wang Shifu's Chinese play '' The Western Chamber'' at London's Torch Theatre in 1938. Career Theatre After the war, Collingwood joined Amersham Repertory Theatre, followed by the Young Vic Company, and a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Balfour (actor)
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's ''The Marvellous History of St Bernard'', in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Basil Dearden and Howard Hawks. Balfour had parts in many popular TV shows of the era including '' Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nagy (actor)
Bill Nagy (1921–1973) was a Hungarian-born Canadian film and television actor who settled and worked in Britain. He began working on the London stage, appearing in the West End production of ''South Pacific. Selected filmography Film * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) - G.I. at Table (uncredited) * '' River Beat'' (1954) - Eddie * '' Hands of Destiny'' (1954) - Captain Scott * '' The Brain Machine'' (1955) - Charlie * '' Shadow of a Man'' (1955) - Paul Bryant * '' Joe MacBeth'' (1955) - Marty * '' The Stolen Airliner'' (1955) - Luiz * '' Cloak Without Dagger'' (1956) - Mario Oromonda * '' Fire Maidens from Outer Space'' (1956) - U.S.Officer (uncredited) * '' Assignment Redhead'' (1956) - Marzotti * ''The Eternal Question'' (1956) * '' High Tide at Noon'' (1957) - Sandy McNab (uncredited) * ''Confess, Killer'' (1957) - John Digby * '' Across the Bridge'' (1957) - Paul Scarff * ''A King in New York'' (1957) - Television Announcer (uncredited) * '' The Mark of the Hawk'' (1957) - F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Douglas (actor)
Colin Martin Douglas (28 July 1912 – 21 December 1991) was an English actor. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Douglas was educated at the Farm School in Cumberland. Following his elder brother Jock, he emigrated to New Zealand when he was sixteen, working in sheep farming and lumberjacking, but only stayed for five years before auditioning to study at RADA, after begging his father to let him return to try to become an actor. He did some time in repertory, but the Second World War halted his career. In the armed forces he went to Catterick and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, became Captain and Adjutant in the Border Regiment, and served in the 1st Airborne Division. During the Allied invasion of Sicily his glider, like many others, was released too early, and the crew were in the sea for two days (many members of other crews perished). He was also dropped by glider at Arnhem, during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden but in later years was reluctant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McNaughton
Jack McNaughton (22 December 190522 February 1990) was a British stage and film actor. As a character actor he mostly played supporting roles, but occasionally featured in major roles such as playing the male lead in the 1951 comedy '' Cheer the Brave''. He was married to the Canadian-born actress Kay Callard. Selected filmography * ''They Made Me a Fugitive'' (1947) – Soapy * '' Brighton Rock'' (1948) – Trudy brother – pierrot (uncredited) * ''London Belongs to Me'' (1948) – Jimmy * '' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) – (uncredited) * '' Brass Monkey'' (1948) – Porter * '' Badger's Green'' (1949) – Mr. Twigg * '' Cardboard Cavalier'' (1949) – Uriah Group * ''Man on the Run'' (1949) – First Man at Soho Pub * '' Madness of the Heart'' (1949) – Attendant * '' No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) – Coffee Stall Attendant * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) – El Greco * ''She Shall Have Murder'' (1950) – Barman * ''The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) – Taxi Driver * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
