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Floods Of Fear
''Floods of Fear'' is a 1958 British thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Howard Keel, Anne Heywood and Harry H. Corbett. Plot During a flood, prison convict Donovan escapes while helping build a barrier for an impending flood. He gets swept away in the waters, along with his prison guard, Sharkey, and a fellow prisoner, Peebles. They wash up at a farm house of Dr Mathews, who is away helping victims of the flood. The trio are alone until Dr Mathews' daughter Anne arrives. Conflict ensues which results in Donovan leaving with Anne and Peebles fleeing Sharkey. Donovan and Anne fall in love. He reveals that he ''was'' framed for murdering the wife of his former business partner, Jack Murphy, and is seeking revenge against Murphy. Cast * Howard Keel as Donovan * Anne Heywood as Elizabeth Matthews * Cyril Cusack as Peebles * Harry H. Corbett as Sharkey * John Crawford as Jack Murphy * Eddie Byrne as Sheriff * John Phillips as Dr. Matthews *Mark Bake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Crichton
Charles Ainslie Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and film editor, editor. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, he became best known for directing many comedies produced at Ealing Studios and had a 40-year career editing and directing many films and television programmes. For his final film, the acclaimed comedy ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (along with the film's star John Cleese). Early life and education Crichton, one of six children, was born on 6 August 1910 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire, followed by New College, Oxford, New College at the University of Oxford where he read history. Career Editing In 1931, Crichton began his career in the film industry as a film editor. His first credit as editor was ''Men of Tomorrow (1932 film), Men of Tomorrow'' (1932). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Phillips (actor)
William John Phillips MC (20 July 1914 – 11 May 1995) was an English actor. He is known for the role of Chief Superintendent Robins in the television series ''Z-Cars'' and for his work as a Shakespearean stage actor. Early life Phillips was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1914, was educated at Oswestry and began his acting career at Birmingham Rep in the 1930s. During the Second World War, Phillips served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross. Career Stage His early theatre roles included the Ghost in the 1955 Peter Brook – Paul Scofield production of ''Hamlet'' at the Phoenix Theatre; the American Ambassador in Peter Ustinov's 1957 production of '' Romanoff and Juliet''; and Prospero in the 1959 production of John Dryden and William Davenant's version of ''The Tempest'', at the Old Vic. Phillips continued to work as a stage actor until his retirement in the 1980s. Television Phillips appeared in a number of television roles, which inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...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] |
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a British film and television studio located in the village of Iver Heath, England. It is approximately west of central London. The studio has been the base for many productions over the years from large-scale films to television programmes, commercials, and pop promos, including the ''James Bond'' and '' Carry On'' film franchises. History Pinewood Studios was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, a large Victorian country house which was purchased by Canadian financier, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Chiswick, Lt. Col. Grant Morden (1880–1932). He added refinements such as a ballroom, a Victorian-style Turkish bath, and an indoor squash court. Due to its seclusion, it was used as a discreet meeting place for high-ranking politicians and diplomats; the agreement to create the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed there. In 1934, building tycoon Charles Boot (1874–1945) bought the land and turned it into a country club. The ballroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Devereaux
Edward Sidney Devereaux (27 August 192517 December 2003), better known professionally as Ed Devereaux, was an Australian actor, director, and scriptwriter who lived in the United Kingdom for many years. He was best known for playing the part of Matt Hammond the head ranger in the Australian television series ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo''. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes, Devereaux writing the script and directing the episode ''The Veteran'' (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. Devereaux based the story of the episode "Double Trouble" on an idea conceived by his children, wrote the screenplay of "Summer Storm" and the script for "The Mine". He also played the part of Joe in the Australian 1966 film ''They’re a Weird Mob''. The film was a local success. Biography Devereaux had been a boy soprano, teenage soldier in the New Guinea campaign during the Second World War, cabbie, storeman and truck driver before moving to the UK in 1950. Devereaux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Scott (actor)
Kevin Scott may refer to: * Kevin Scott (speed skater) (born 1969), Canadian speed skater * Kevin Scott (footballer) (born 1966), English footballer * Kevin Scott (American football) (born 1969), former American football cornerback * Kevin Scott (Canadian football) (born 1983), Canadian football long snapper and defensive lineman * Kevin Scott (badminton) (born 1965), Scottish badminton player * Kevin Scott (computer scientist) Kevin Scott (born 1972) is chief technology officer at Microsoft. He was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn from February 2011 to January 2017. Education Kevin Scott grew up in Gladys, Virginia. He hol ... (born 1972), Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft * Kevin M. Scott (born 1935), American geologist and author {{hndis, Scott, Kevin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graydon Gould
Graydon may refer to: * Graydon (name), a list of people with the name Places * Graydon Hall, neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Graydon Hill, Edmonton, future neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada * Graydon Springs, Missouri, unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri See also * Grayson (other) * John Graydon (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Sterne
Gordon Sterne (16 January 1923 – 4 April 2017) was a German-born English actor. Biography Sterne born on 16 January 1923 in Essen, Germany of Jewish descent. He left his native Nazi-dominated birth country in 1941 and became a native of Windsor, Ontario with a father who worked in the tobacco business and mother, who was supportive of his theatre aspirations. Sterne studied economics at the University of Western Ontario before volunteering for the Canadian Army in 1944, serving in the infantry as a sergeant. Heading to New York in 1945, he trained and graduated from the Dramatic Workshop under the tutelage of its founder Erwin Piscator, at the same time as Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Harry Belafonte. Sterne then began his acting career in America, working on radio and TV, in summer stock and off-Broadway. After a career on stage, playing the leading man in various plays in New Jersey during the 1940s, as well as Benvenuto Cellini in '' The Fireb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Matalon
Vivian Matalon (11 October 1929 – 15 August 2018) was a British theatre director. Born in Manchester, Matalon began his career as an actor in a series of forgettable British films, but his greatest success has been as a director of West End, Broadway and regional theatre productions. His West End credits include ''Bus Stop'' with Lee Remick and Keir Dullea, '' I Never Sang for My Father'' with Raymond Massey and '' The Glass Menagerie'' with Anna Massey. He was artistic director for three years at the Hampstead Theatre, where his productions included Clifford Odets' '' Awake and Sing'' and the European premiere of '' Small Craft Warnings'' by Tennessee Williams. Matalon served on the Artistic Advisory Board of New York City's New World's Theatre Project, which makes late 19th and early 20th century Yiddish plays accessible to contemporary audiences in modern English translations. He died from complications of diabetes in August 2018, at the age of 88. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Tanner
Gordon Tanner (July 17, 1918–August 3, 1983) was a Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ... actor. Filmography References External links * 1918 births 1983 deaths Male actors from Toronto Canadian male film actors 20th-century Canadian male actors {{Canada-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Guy Kingsley Poynter, also known as Guy Kingsley (3 September 1915 – 6 September 1983), was an American actor. Poynter is best remembered for his part as 'Doctor Daniel "Doc" Matthews' in the 1950s radio series ''Journey into Space''. He appeared in the TV drama ''Armchair Theatre'' in 1959; as the narrator for Harrison Marks' ''Naked as Nature Intended'' in 1961; and played twice in ITV's "Play Of The Week", in 1963. He made many other appearances in various-sized parts, often playing against well-known stars of the period. Personal life He married Margaret E. Fraser in 1947. He died in London in 1983. Filmography *''Too Much Johnson'' (1938) – Henry MacIntosh *''Cage of Gold'' (1950) – American soldier (uncredited) *''The Good Die Young'' (1954) – US serviceman at train station (uncredited) *''The Crooked Sky'' (1957) – Tom Alanson *''Floods of Fear'' (1958) – Deputy Sheriff *'' Beyond the Curtain'' (1960) – Capt. Law *''Peeping Tom'' (1960) – P. Tate – St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
