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The Share Out
''The Share Out'' (also known as ''The Shareout'') is a 1962 British second feature film directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Bernard Lee, Alexander Knox and Moira Redmond. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1920 Wallace novel '' Jack O'Judgment''. Plot Colonel Calderwood runs a property company as a front for blackmail. Intending to shortly wind down the company, Calderwood has converted its funds into diamonds, which will be shared equally between himself and his partners John Crewe and Monet, and company secretary Diana Marsh, none of whom trust each other or Calderwood. Detective Superintendent Meredith of Scotland Yard is suspicious of the company's activities, but is unable to persuade any of its blackmail victims to help the police. Meredith enlists private investigator Mike Stafford to infiltrate the company. Calderwood immediately tasks Stafford with spying on Diana Marsh. Monet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Glaister
John Leslie Glaister DFC (21 December 1915 – 5 February 2005), known as Gerard or Gerrard Glaister, was a British television producer and director best known for his work with the BBC. Amongst his most notable successes as a producer were ''Colditz'', '' The Brothers'', '' Secret Army'' and '' Howards' Way''. After studying at RADA, Glaister made his West End debut in 1939. With the outbreak of war, he joined the Royal Air Force, commissioned as Pilot Officer on 8 September 1939 and initially flying a Blenheim bomber. He later served as a photo reconnaissance pilot in 208 Squadron RAF in the Western Desert, initially flying Westland Lysanders. It was during these latter duties that he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 October 1942, for a hazardous reconnaissance flight in an unarmed Hurricane at extremely low level across the Italian front line. He rose to the rank of Squadron Leader and retired from the RAF on 5 August 1952 (for medical reasons). Glaister la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B Movie
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music). However, the U.S. production of films intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s. With the emergence of commercial television at that time, film studio B movie production departments changed into television film production divisions. They created much of the same type of content in low budget films and series. The term ''B movie'' continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. In its post-Golden Age usage, B movies can range from lurid exploitation films to independent arthouse films. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Carby
Fanny Carby (2 February 1925 – 20 September 2002) was a British character actress. She had two different roles on ''Coronation Street'': she played Mary Hornigold in 1965, then in 1987 she took the role of Vera Duckworth's domineering mother, Amy Burton, a role she played into the following year. Fanny's other credits include ''Street'' spin-off '' Pardon the Expression'', ''On The Buses'', '' Sykes'', ''The Bill'', ''In Sickness and in Health'' and '' Goodnight Sweetheart''. On stage, she was a founder member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, and appeared in ''Oh, What a Lovely War'' in London and on Broadway; and also in its film version, for director Richard Attenborough. Selected filmography *'' Operation Diplomat'' (1952, TV Series) as Mrs. Dobson *''The Pickwick Papers'' (1952-1953, TV Series) as Mary *''BBC Sunday-Night Theatre'' (1952-1959, TV Series) as Prostitute / Waitress / Maisie / Party guest / Joan / Agnes / Gwen *''Meet Mr. Lucifer'' (1953) as Lady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Warner (actor)
Richard Warner (24 May 1911 - 14 January 1989) was an English actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1988. Also active on stage, his theatre work included Gerald Savory's ''George and Margaret'' on Broadway in 1937, and the original production of J.B. Priestley's ''When We Are Married'' in London's West End West End most commonly refers to: * West End of London, an area of central London, England * West End theatre, a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London, England West End may also refer to: Pl ... in 1938. Filmography References External links * 1911 births 1989 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vernon
Richard Evelyn Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. Prematurely balding and greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged lords and military types while still in his 30s. He is perhaps best known for originating the role of Slartibartfast in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Other notable roles included Edwin Oldenshaw in '' The Man in Room 17'' (1965–67), Sir James Greenley, alias "C" in '' The Sandbaggers'' (1978–80) and Sir Desmond Glazebrook in ''Yes Minister'' (1980–81) and its sequel series ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1987). Early life Vernon was born in Kenya in 1925 to British parents. Vernon and his parents moved to Britain in 1937 where Vernon attended Reading School and Leighton Park School (both in Reading, Berkshire). During the Second World War served in the Royal Navy. He trained as an actor at the Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell (English Actor)
William Russell Enoch (born 19 November 1924) is an English actor. He achieved prominence in 1956 when he took the title role in the ITV television series ''The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'' (1956–1957). In 1963, he became part of the original lead cast of BBC1's ''Doctor Who'', playing the role of schoolteacher Ian Chesterton opposite William Hartnell from the show's first episode until 1965. Russell's film roles include parts in ''The Man Who Never Was'' (1956), '' The Great Escape'' (1963) and ''Superman'' (1978). On television, he notably appeared as Ted Sullivan in ''Coronation Street'' in 1992. In recent years, Russell has maintained his association with ''Doctor Who''; he returned to the show in 2022, making a cameo appearance as Chesterton in "The Power of the Doctor", 57 years after the character's last television appearance. Early life William Russell Enoch was born on 19 November 1924 in Sunderland, County Durham,''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be The Malpas Mystery while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see ''German crimis''), there was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. Bloomsbury's head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in New York City, an India publishing office in New Delhi, an Australia sales office in Sydney CBD and other publishing offices in the UK including in Oxford. The company's growth over the past two decades is primarily attributable to the '' Harry Potter'' series by J. K. Rowling and, from 2008, to the development of its academic and professional publishing division. The Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division won the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014. Divisions Bloomsbury Publishing group has two separate publishing divisions—the Consumer division and the Non-Consumer division—supported by group functions, namely Sales an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Amalgamated
Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company, run by Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, which operated from 1945 until roughly 1971 (after which it was absorbed into EMI Films). Low-budget and second features, often produced at Merton Park Studios, formed much of its output. It was the UK distributor of many films produced by American International Pictures (AIP), who distributed AA's films in the United States. It is remembered for producing the first 12 ''Carry On'' films (all of which were produced at Pinewood Studios) and B-movie series such as '' The Scales of Justice'', '' Scotland Yard'' and the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries''. It did, however, produce the Michael Powell film ''Peeping Tom'' (1960) and such films as John Schlesinger's '' A Kind of Loving'' (1962), '' Billy Liar'' (1963) or Ken Loach's ''Poor Cow'' (1967). The company's distribution arrangement with American International Pictures led to the last two films in Roger Corman's series of films bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Mackie
Philip Mackie (26 November 1918 – 23 December 1985) was a British film and television screenwriter. He was born in Salford in Lancashire, England. He graduated in 1939 from University College London and worked for the Ministry of Information Films Division which began a career in film. Work In August 1955 Mackie became, along with Nigel Kneale, one of the first two staff scriptwriters to be employed by BBC Television; scriptwriters had previously been employed on short-term or freelance contracts. The same year he adapted one of his television works into a successful stage play '' The Whole Truth'' which ran for more than a hundred performances in the West End and was then adapted into a film of the same title by Columbia Pictures. In the early 1960s he wrote several screenplays for the series of films made at Merton Park Studios, loosely based on Edgar Wallace stories and novels. Mackie was the producer and writer of the acclaimed 1968 ITV historical drama series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merton Park Studios
Merton Park Studios, opened in 1929, was a British film production studio located at Long Lodge, 269 Kingston Road in Merton Park, South London. In the 1940s, it was owned by Piprodia Entertainment, Nikhanj Films and Film Producers Guild. Peter Morley"Peter Morley - A Life Rewound" Part 1 (PDF) British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2006), p. 41. Retrieved September 29, 2011 Many second features were produced at Merton Park, and for a time it was the base of Radio Luxembourg. Unlike many other studios, it remained open during World War II, producing films for the Ministry of Information. In the late 1940s, the studios produced several children's films.Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, ''The British 'B' Film'', Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp. 96–101. In 1950, Anglo-Amalgamated began making films at Merton Park. From 1957 to 1959, they produced an average of one second-feature a month there. They produced the crime series '' Scotland Yard'' (1953 to 1961, 39 hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Gribble
Bernard Gribble (15 May 1927 – 15 September 2004) was a British film editor who, between 1948 and 2003, worked on nearly a hundred theatrical and made-for-TV films. Gribble was nominated for ACE Eddie Awards for the editing of two episodes of the television miniseries ''Ellis Island'' (1984), and he had been nominated for an Emmy for the television miniseries '' The Winds of War'' (1983). A founding member of the Guild of British Film and Television Editors, Gribble had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors after he moved to Hollywood to work."American Cinema Editors > Members" webpage archived by WebCite froon 2008-03-04. Selected filmography (features) * '' Another Shore'' (1948) - Gribble's first credit as editor. * '' The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) * '' Clue of the Twisted Candle'' (1960) * ''Marriage of Convenience A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of love and commitment. Instead, such a marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
