John Boulting

John Boulting

Nacimiento : 1913-11-21, Bray, Berkshire, England, UK

Muerte : 1985-06-17

Historia

John Boulting (full name John Edward Boulting) and his twin brother Roy Boulting (full name Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting), were two very important persons in the British film industry from the 1940s and well into the 1970s. They worked very closely together with a joint production company, Charter Film Productions, which they set up in 1937, taking turn directing and producing their films. In 1955 they were both also appointed directors of the newly formed British Lion Films, after Alexander Korda's company with the same name had gone into receivership, and they managed to make it into a very successful independent distribution company, standing up against the enormous Rank Organisation and the big Hollywood studios, which moved into the British film distribution market after World War II.

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John Boulting

Películas

Nervios rotos
Executive Producer
Martin es un joven con la mente perturbada que tiene una madre que lo trata como si fuera un niño pequeño, un padrastro que lo desprecia, y un hermano retrasado encerrado en una institución mental. Su única amiga es Susan, con quien le une un vínculo muy especial cuando Martin se refugia en su "otra" personalidad... la de Georgie, un niño de seis años. Pero cuando Susan se distancia de él, Martin entra en cólera y se obsesiona de tal forma con Susan que inicia un oleada de inusitada violencia.
Luna de miel en familia
Director
Por problemas económicos, una pareja de recién casados no tiene más remedio que ir a vivirse temporalmente con los padres de él. Y claro, la luna de miel en casa de padres y suegros se prolonga demasiado.
Luna de miel en familia
Producer
Por problemas económicos, una pareja de recién casados no tiene más remedio que ir a vivirse temporalmente con los padres de él. Y claro, la luna de miel en casa de padres y suegros se prolonga demasiado.
Rotten to the Core
Director
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Cielos arriba
Producer
Un error clerical conduce a que un sacedorte de izquierdas de un pequeño pueblo se encuentre en un pueblo de ricos, donde inmediatamente horroriza a sus snobs feligreses por designar a un basurero y a un hombre negro como guardianes de la vicaría y dejarla abierta a la familia Smith, quienes acaban de ser deshauciados de su caravana. Él convierte a la viuda aristócrata en trabajadora de la absurda caridad, pero pronto revolucionará al pueblo y muchos de sus habitantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
Cielos arriba
Director
Un error clerical conduce a que un sacedorte de izquierdas de un pequeño pueblo se encuentre en un pueblo de ricos, donde inmediatamente horroriza a sus snobs feligreses por designar a un basurero y a un hombre negro como guardianes de la vicaría y dejarla abierta a la familia Smith, quienes acaban de ser deshauciados de su caravana. Él convierte a la viuda aristócrata en trabajadora de la absurda caridad, pero pronto revolucionará al pueblo y muchos de sus habitantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
Sospechosos
Producer
Un grupo de científicos, bajo la supervisión del Profesor Sewell (Peter Cushing), llevan a cabo una investigación para desarrollar una fórmula que permita combatir las plagas del tifus y la peste bubónica. Dado que el compuesto incluye la utilización de un germen particularmente virulento que podría ser utilizado por una potencia enemiga como arma bacteriológica, el Ministro de Defensa prohibe terminantemente al Profesor Sewell publicar sus descubrimientos.
Estoy bien, Jack
Screenplay
El ingenuo Stanley Windrush regresa de la guerra, y piensa abrirse paso con exito en los negocios. Para su desilusión, se da cuenta que tendrá que empezar desde cero, y pronto se verá envuelto en una pelea entre la gerencia de la empresa y la asociación sindical a la que pertenece, que le utilizaran como una herramienta en su lucha por alcanzar el poder, y que cuando se convierte en un obstáculo, se unirán para destruirlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Estoy bien, Jack
Director
El ingenuo Stanley Windrush regresa de la guerra, y piensa abrirse paso con exito en los negocios. Para su desilusión, se da cuenta que tendrá que empezar desde cero, y pronto se verá envuelto en una pelea entre la gerencia de la empresa y la asociación sindical a la que pertenece, que le utilizaran como una herramienta en su lucha por alcanzar el poder, y que cuando se convierte en un obstáculo, se unirán para destruirlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Despiste ministerial
Producer
Humorística comedia británica sobre un inepto diplomático que es enviado a una remota isla del Pacífico para establecer buenas relaciones con una colonia que ha sido olvidada durante medio siglo. Pero claro, el lugar es mineralmente muy rico y hay que sacar tajada.
Lucky Jim
Director
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Brothers in Law
Producer
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Private's Progress
Screenplay
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Private's Progress
Director
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Josephine and Men
Producer
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
La cresta de la ola
Producer
Un oficial americano colabora temporalmente con los ingleses durante la guerra, para desarrollar un sistema de torpedos. Lo que no es tan fácil como parece, y pone en riesgo la vida de los implicados. (FILMAFFINITY)
La cresta de la ola
Director
Un oficial americano colabora temporalmente con los ingleses durante la guerra, para desarrollar un sistema de torpedos. Lo que no es tan fácil como parece, y pone en riesgo la vida de los implicados. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Magic Box
Director
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Seven Days to Noon
Editor
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
Seven Days to Noon
Producer
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
Seven Days to Noon
Director
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
The Guinea Pig
Producer
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Brighton Rock
Director
Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) es un gangster que lidera una pandilla de degenerados malvivientes. Después de cometer un asesinato, intenta manipular a una amiga suya para que le suministre una coartada. Filme basado en una novela de Graham Greene.
Fame Is the Spur
Producer
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Journey Together
Writer
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Journey Together
Director
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Tunisian Victory
Director
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
Thunder Rock
Producer
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
The Dawn Guard
Producer
The work of the Home Guard.
Pastor Hall
Producer
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Design for Murder
Producer
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Consider Your Verdict
Producer
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.