Tempean Films was a British film production company formed in 1948 by Robert Baker and

Monty Berman Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman (16 August 1913 in Whitechapel, London, England – 14 June 2006 in London, England) was a British cinematographer and film and television producer. Early career Berman began his film career as a camera assistant ...

. Tempean's output of

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s were distributed by

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. The company later moved into television, adapting Leslie Charteris' series of The Saint novels, starring

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. The company produced several of its features at Southall Studios in

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including both

The Trollenberg Terror ''The Trollenberg Terror'' (released in the U.S. as ''The Crawling Eye'') is a 1958 British science fiction drama film, produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman and directed by Quentin Lawrence. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, ...

television series in 1956 and the film version in 1958, which was Southall Studio's final production.

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directed many of Tempean's features. Tempean is an adjective of, or pertaining to, Tempe, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Tempe; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.

Film library

* A Date with a Dream (1948) First production of Tempean Films and screen debut of

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(1949) * Blackout (1950) * No Trace (1950) * The Quiet Woman (1951) * The Voice of Merrill (1952) * The Frightened Man (1952) *

13 East Street ''13 East Street'' is a 1952 British crime thriller film directed by Robert S. Baker and starring Patrick Holt, Sandra Dorne and Sonia Holm.Mackillop & Sinyard p.180 It was shot at Twickenham Studios with some location shooting around London. ...

(1952) *

The Lost Hours ''The Lost Hours'' is a 1952 British film noir directed by David MacDonald and starring Mark Stevens, Jean Kent and John Bentley. It was produced by Tempean Films which specialised in making second features at the time, and marked Kent's f ...

(1952) * Love in Pawn (1953) *

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(1953) *

Three Steps to the Gallows ''Three Steps to the Gallows'', released in the United States as ''White Fire'', is a 1953 British crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Scott Brady, Mary Castle and Gabrielle Brune. The film, essentially a British second feature, i ...

(1953) * Escape by Night (1953) * The Steel Key (1953) * The Embezzler (1954) * Impulse (1954) * The Gilded Cage (1955) *

Reluctant Bride ''Reluctant Bride'' (released in the U.S. as ''Two Grooms for a Bride'') is a 1955 British comedy film. Plot summary Jeff Longstreet and Laura Weeks are paired together to take care of a group of wild children whose parents are lost on an Afric ...

(1955) * No Smoking (1955) * Tiger by the Tail (1955) * Stranger in Town (1957) *

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(1957) * Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) * The Blind Spot (1958) *

Blood of the Vampire ''Blood of the Vampire'' is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a scree ...

(1958) *

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(1958) *

Sea of Sand ''Sea of Sand'' (released in the US as ''Desert Patrol'') is a 1958 British war film starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. The film, which was directed by Guy Green, is about a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( ...

(1958) *

(1958) Also known as also known as The Crawling Eye, Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye, it appeared as the first film in the

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series and was mentioned in the final episode * Stormy Crossing (1958) * The Siege of Sydney Street (1960) * The Hellfire Club (1960) *

The Flesh and the Fiends ''The Flesh and the Fiends'' (US title ''Mania'') is a 1960 British horror film directed by John Gilling. It stars Peter Cushing as 19th-century medical doctor Robert Knox, who purchases human corpses for research from a murderous pair named Bu ...

(1960) produced by Triad Productions, a team-up of Tempean Films and John Gilling * What a Carve Up! (1961)

Television

(1956) * The Saint (1962 - 1969) *

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(1964 - 1965)

References

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