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The Devil's Jest
''The Devil's Jest'' is a 1954 British second feature ('B') film directed by Alfred Goulding and starring Mara Tavernan, Ivan Craig and Valentine Dyall. It was written by Vance Youdan (credited as Vance Uhden), and is a remake of '' Castle Sinister'' (1948). Plot In a remote castle during the Second World War, Irma, Lady Enderby recognises Major Seton, her ex-lover and father of her son. When he is exposed as a German spy, she attempts to protect him, and they flee together in a U-boat. Cast * Mara Tavernan as Irma, Lady Enderby * Ivan Craig as Major Seton * Valentine Dyall as Director of Military Intelligence * Derek Aylewood as Victor * Julian Sherrier as Tony * Lee Fox as Major Malcolm * Hamilton Keene as Colonel Mortimer * Edward Leslie as Captain Blynne Reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "The frail, pretentious and confused story ... is not helped by stolidly unimaginative direction, nor by extremely indifferent use of music and sound. The only inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Goulding
Alfred John "Alf" Goulding (January 26, 1885 – April 25, 1972) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 180 films between 1917 and 1959 and is credited with having Harold Lloyd wear his trademark glasses. Biography He was born on January 26, 1885, in Melbourne, Australia to Francis Thomas Goulding (1860–1940) and Margaret Davies Walsh. He was the youngest brother of the opera singer Elsa Goulding. As children, he and his brother and sister performed with Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company, a popular Australian juvenile opera company that travelled Australasia, the Orient and North America extensively. By 1900 he was regularly singled out in reviews as one of the company’s most entertaining performers: "Master Alf. Goulding came in for a lion's share of applause, and he certainly won it fairly in his comic pieces." By 1907, Goulding was stage managing for the company. He arrived with the Polla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Keene
Hamilton George Keene (15 November 1896 – 4 October 1975) was a British stage actor, stage and film actor.Edwards p.188 He appeared in more than thirty British films, originally in more prominent roles during the early 1930s and later in smaller, often uncredited parts. They included: The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937 film), ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1937), It's Not Cricket (1949 film), ''It's Not Cricket'' (1949), ''Burnt Evidence'' (1964) and nearly thirty others. Selected filmography * ''Lost Patrol (1929 film), Lost Patrol'' (1929) * ''The Middle Watch (1930 film), The Middle Watch'' (1930) * ''Suspense (1930 film), Suspense'' (1930) * ''The New Hotel'' (1932) * ''Illegal (1932 film), Illegal'' (1932) * ''Leave It to Blanche'' (1934) * ''The Blue Squadron (1934 film), The Blue Squadron'' (1934) * ''The Office Wife (1934 film), The Office Wife'' (1934) * ''Little Stranger (film), Little Stranger'' (1934) * ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937 film), The Mutiny of the Elsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white 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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Films
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1954 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International Events * A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed. * May 12 — The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927. * September 29 — '' A Star is Born'' premieres and marks Judy Garland's comeback after her termination from her contract at MGM. An astounding success with critics and audiences, ''A Star is Born'' not only marks the first time that legendary director George Cukor has made a film musical or a film in Technicolor and in anamorphic widescreen format, but also becomes regarded as one of Garland's best performances in her film career. * November 3 — The film '' Godzilla'' premieres in Japan. It becomes a huge success and the first in the ''Godzilla'' film fra ... [...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] |
Kine Weekly
''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. Etymology The word Kinematograph was derived from the Greek ' Kinumai ', (to move, to be in motion, to go); and, from ' Grapho ', (to write, to inscribe); in the sense of meaning of ' writing ' in light and in motion. History ''Kinematograph Weekly'' was founded in 1889 as the monthly publication ''Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger''. In 1907 it was renamed ''Kinematograph Weekly'', containing trade news, advertisements, reviews, exhibition advice, and reports of regional and national meetings of trade organisations such as the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the Kinema Renters' Society. It was first published by pioneering film enthusiast, industrialist and printing entrepreneur E. T. Heron. In 1914 it published its first annual publication for the film industry, the ''Kinematograph Yearbook, Program Diary and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syon House
Syon House is the west London residence of the Duke of Northumberland. A Grade I listed building, it lies within the 200-acre (80 hectare) Syon Park, in the London Borough of Hounslow. The family's traditional central London residence had been Northumberland House in Trafalgar Square, since demolished. The eclectic interior of Syon House was designed by the architect Robert Adam in the 1760s. History Syon House derives its name from Syon Abbey, a medieval monastery of the Bridgettine Order, founded in 1415 on a nearby site by Henry V. The abbey moved to the site now occupied by Syon House in 1431. It was one of the wealthiest nunneries in the country. Local folklore claims that the monks of Sheen had a secret tunnel running to the nunnery at Syon.Westwood, Jennifer (1985), ''Albion. A Guide to Legendary Britain.'' Pub. Grafton Books, London; , p. 126. In 1539, the abbey was closed by royal agents during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the monastic community wa ... [...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] |
Eddie Leslie
Frederick Leslie Whitaker (11 October 1903 – 27 June 1975), known as Eddie Leslie, was a British film actor and screenwriter. He often acted alongside Norman Wisdom, on stage and in his films '' Trouble in Store'' (1953); ''Up in the World'' (1956); '' Just My Luck'' (1957); '' The Square Peg'' (1958); '' Follow a Star'' (1959) and '' A Stitch in Time'' (1963). He wrote five of Wisdom's film screenplays as well as a couple of early TV shows for Wisdom in 1952. In 1956 he appeared in the first episode of Hancock's Half Hour TV show. His theatre credits include the role of Luther Billis in the musical ''South Pacific'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Joshua Logan in Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre in 1954. He performed with Patrica Hartley, Nevil Whiting, Helen Landis, David Williams, Robert Henderson and Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to Portrayal of James Bond in film, portray the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U-boat
U-boats are Submarine#Military, naval submarines operated by Germany, including during the World War I, First and Second World Wars. The term is an Anglicization#Loanwords, anglicized form of the German word , a shortening of (), though the German term refers to any submarine. Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats. U-boats are most known for their unrestricted submarine warfare in both world wars, trying to Commerce raiding, disrupt merchant traffic towards the UK and force the UK out of the war. In World War I, Germany intermittently waged unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom, UK: a first campaign in 1915 was abandoned after strong protests from the US but in 1917 the Germans, facing deadlock on the continent, saw no other option than to resume the campaign in February 1917. The renewed campaign failed to achieve its goal mainly because of the introduction of Convoys in World War I, convoys. Instead the campaign ensured final defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul King (screenwriter)
Paul Donaldson King (July 14, 1926 – July 10, 1996) was an American producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Original Screenplay for the film ''Operation Petticoat''. King died in July 1996 of cancer at his home in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 69. He was interred at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, Newport Beach. Selected filmography * ''Operation Petticoat'' (1959; co-nominated with Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin Maurice Richlin (February 23, 1920 – November 13, 1990) was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for '' Pillow Talk'' and '' Operation Petticoat'' in the same year. For the first ... and Joseph Stone) References External links * 1926 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters American male screenwriters American male television writers American television writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Sinister (1948 Film)
''Castle Sinister'' is a 1948 British B movie, second feature ('B') mystery film directed by Oscar Burn and starring Mary Taviner (credited as Mara Russell-Tavernan). It was remade in 1954 as ''The Devil's Jest'', again starring Mary Taviner. During the Second World War, a military intelligence officer travels to Glenye Castle in Scotland to investigate the death of an officer and the disappearance of another. Both are attributed to the castle's mysterious phantom but actually are the work of an enemy agent. Plot After visiting Castle Glenye in the Scottish Highlands, Major Matthews of the army's counter-intelligence department is pushed over a cliff by a masked figure, cloaked and hooded in black. Later, his replacement, Captain Fairfax disappears. Captain Neale is sent by the War Office to investigate. His local contact is Mr. McWerter, who explains in a flashback that, before the outbreak of the World War II, Second World War, the Marquess of Glenye died, leaving behind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
