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Sentenced For Life (1960 Film)
''Sentenced for Life'' is a low budget 1960 British second feature crime film directed by Max Varnel and starring Basil Dignam, Jack Gwillim, Francis Matthews, and Jill Williams. It was written by Mark Grantham and Eldon Howard and produced by The Danzigers. Plot Engineer John Richards is wrongly accused of selling secrets to enemy agents, and receives a life sentence in prison. Richards suspects his ex-partner Ralph Thompson is responsible for framing him, and asks his son, Jim, a law student, to investigate. Cast *Basil Dignam as Ralph Thompson *Jack Gwillim as John Richards * Francis Matthews as Jim Richards *Jill Williams as Sue Thompson * Mark Singleton as Edward Thompson *Nyree Dawn Porter as Betty Martin *Lorraine Clewes as Mrs. Richards *Arnold Bell as Williams *Philip Hollis as Turner *John M. Moore as Butler * Garard Green as doctor Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "A workmanlike but unsubtle pot-boiler, with little or no claim to originali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Varnel
Max Varnel (21 March 1925 – 15 January 1996) was a French-born Australian film director, film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia. Biography Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of the film director Marcel Varnel. He began his career as an assistant director of ''The Magic Box'' (1951) and continued in this role for films including ''The Card (1952 film), The Card'' (1952), ''Devil Girl from Mars'' (1954) and ''The Cockleshell Heroes'' (1955) His directing credits encompass a series of B movies, including ''Moment of Indiscretion'' (1958), ''Woman Possessed, A Woman Possessed'' (1958), ''Top Floor Girl'' (1959), ''Web of Suspicion'' (1959), ''The Child and the Killer'' (1959), and ''Crash Drive'' (1959). Varnel's television credits include ''The Vise'', ''The Cheaters (TV series), The Cheaters'', ''Softly, Softly (TV series), Softly Softly'', and ''The Troubleshooters (British TV series), The Troubleshooters'' in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Singleton (actor)
Mark Singleton (1919–1986) was a British film and television actor. Partial filmography * '' The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) - Waiter at Jack of Spades (uncredited) * '' Girdle of Gold'' (1952) - Waiter * ''Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder'' (1953) - 2nd Drama critic * '' Take a Powder'' (1953) - (uncredited) * '' Face the Music'' (1954) - Waiter * '' You Lucky People!'' (1955) - Lt. Arthur Robson * '' Moment of Indiscretion'' (1958) - (Jeweller) * '' Innocent Meeting'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''No Safety Ahead'' (1959) - Fordham * '' Top Floor Girl'' (1959) - (uncredited) * '' Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons'' (1960) - Advertising Clerk (uncredited) * '' Compelled'' (1960) - Derek * ''Transatlantic'' (1960) - Mills * '' Sentenced for Life'' (1960) - Edward Thompson * '' A Taste of Money'' (1960) - Detective * '' The Court Martial of Major Keller'' (1961) - Captain Fuller * '' Murder in Eden (film)'' (1961) - Arnold Woolf * '' Part-Time Wife'' (1961) - Detective * '' Partners in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s English-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot At New Elstree Studios
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, Sound film, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual Recording medium, medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crime 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] |
1960 Films
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America. Events * March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film '' G.I. Blues'' * June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, '' Psycho'' in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre. * August 5 - Mughal-e-Azam, produced and directed by K. Asif and starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, and Durga Khote, premieres at the Maratha Mandir in Mumbai. Production was plagued by delays and financial uncertainty. Before its principal photography began in the early 1950s, the projec ... [...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] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garard Green
Garard Green (31 July 1924 – 26 December 2004) was a British actor and commentator. Green was born in Madras, India in 1924 where his father was superintendent of the government press. When his father died in 1933 the family returned to the United Kingdom and Green finished his education at Watford Grammar School. He developed an interest in acting at Watford but when he left the school he returned to India and the Military Academy and was commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). At the end of the war he was demobilised and won a Sir Alexander Korda scholarship to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). On leaving RADA he worked in the theatre in London. In 1953 he married the actress Margaret Tansley. He developed mobility problems caused by severe arthritis which ended his stage career and he concentrated on films and television, appearing in over 40 films including ''Hour of Decision'' (1957), ''Horrors of the Black Museum'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Bell
Arnold Bell (23 May 1901 – 12 March 1988) was a British actor. Selected filmography * '' Convict 99'' (1919) − Warder Gannawy * '' Doctor Josser K.C.'' (1931) * '' Josser in the Army'' (1932) − Becker * '' Doss House'' (1933) − Reporter * '' Jack of All Trades'' (1936) − (uncredited) * '' His Lordship'' (1936) − Ibrahim's Butler (uncredited) * '' Strange Experiment'' (1937) − Leech * '' O.H.M.S.'' (1937) − Matthews (uncredited) * '' The Greed of William Hart'' (1948) − Dr. Cox * '' The Temptress'' (1949) − Dr. Leroy * '' No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) − Judge * '' Women of Twilight'' (1952) − Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Appointment in London'' (1953) − Padre (uncredited) * '' Rough Shoot'' (1953) − Sgt. Baines * '' The Fake'' (1953) − Police Inspector * '' Murder at 3am'' (1953) − McMann * '' Star of India'' (1954) − Captain * '' Bang! You're Dead'' (1954) − The Warder * '' The Diamond'' (1954) − Police Chemist (uncredited) * '' The Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyree Dawn Porter
Nyree Dawn Porter OBE (born Ngaire Dawn Porter; 22 January 1936 – 10 April 2001) was a New Zealand–British actress. She started performing on stage in New Zealand, moving to the UK in 1958. She is best known for her role as Irene in the BBC series ''The Forsyte Saga'' (1967). Early life and education Ngaire Dawn Porter was born in Napier, New Zealand, on 22 January 1936. She changed her name after moving to England in 1958, so that English people could pronounce it. Career Stage Porter's first professional work was touring with the New Zealand Players Trust. She was acclaimed for such roles as Jessica in ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Juliet in '' Romanoff and Juliet''. She also performed in revues and musicals, including a local Napier production of '' The Desert Song'' in 1955. She moved to Britain in 1958 after winning a Miss Cinema talent competition for young actresses organised by Rank, with the prize of a round-the-world trip and a film test in London. Although t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Danzigers
Edward J. Danziger (1909–1999) and Harry Lee Danziger (1913–2005) were American-born brothers who produced many British films and TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s. According to one profile "throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, their second features and TV series seemed to be on screens everywhere, their pervasive presence forming a part of virtually every British filmgoer's and television viewer's experience during those years." Career Edward and Harry Danziger were native New Yorkers. Edward studied law and had worked on the Nuremberg Trials while brother Harry had a musical background. They operated a sound studio in New York that specialised in the dubbing of foreign films for US release. Their first feature film as producers was '' Jigsaw'' (1949). In 1952, they moved to Britain and began making television films, using resources at various facilities including London's Riverside Studios, Shepperton, Borehamwood and Nettlefold. Among their first productions was the serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
