Ray Elton

Movies

The Professor
Executive Producer
A botanist, a caterpillar and a butterfly in a foolish pursuit in the great tradition of British absurdity.
Song of Paris
Director of Photography
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Four Days
Director of Photography
A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!
Two on the Tiles
Director of Photography
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
Smart Alec
Director of Photography
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Last Holiday
Director of Photography
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
Marry Me
Director of Photography
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Director of Photography
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Quartet
Director of Photography
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
The Blind Goddess
Director of Photography
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Miranda
Director of Photography
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Pattern for Progress
Director of Photography
The drama and spectacle of steelmaking at Ebbw Vale.
We Will Remain Faithful
Camera Operator
The compilation documentary We Will Remain Faithful is a testimony to the Czechoslovak resistance during the Second World War. The film covers the period from the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic to the victorious Allied advance in 1944. Director Jiří Weiss compiled it from archival footage, his own authentic and subsequently staged war footage, and material from both Allied and enemy newsreels.
Out of Chaos
Director of Photography
Examines the role of art in WWII; featuring Henry Moore's drawings of London Underground during bombing raids, Paul Nash's paintings of aircraft dumps, Stanley Spencer's shipbuilding panels, Evelyn Dunbar's land girls, alongside many amateur artists too.
Summer on the Farm
Director of Photography
A look at the rural farming community during WW II and how farmers help stop food shortages during the war.