Denis Cannan

Nacimiento : 1919-05-14, Oxford, England, UK

Muerte : 2011-09-25

Películas

One Day at a Time
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An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
The Benefit of the Doubt
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A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the Vietnam War, Benefit of the Doubt is the only known film record of the Royal Shakespeare Company production. It was filmed by Peter Whitehead concurrently with his Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967), on the surface a very different film, yet both share a central concern with the war, protest and Britain's political and cultural relationship with America.
Las aventuras amorosas de una doncella
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Siglo XVIII. Se basa en una novela de Daniel Defoe sobre las aventuras de Moll Flanders, una chica que empezó trabajando como doncella, fue después esposa de un rico banquero, acompañante de un conde, cómplice de una banda de ladrones de cuyo jefe se enamoró. Moll Flanders va dando tumbos por el mundo en busca de un amor que la ayude a sobrevivir.
Viento en las velas
Screenplay
En 1860, después de una gran tormenta, unos padres deciden embarcar a sus hijos en un velero con destino Londres. El barco es asaltado por unos piratas que se llevan a los niños.
Tamahine
Screenplay
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
Sammy, huida hacia el sur
Screenplay
Tras quedar huérfano por un ataque aéreo sobre Port Said, durante la Crisis de Suez, un muchacho tendrá que arreglárselas para trasladarse a Durban, en Sudáfrica, donde vive su tía Jane, su pariente más cercano. En su largo camino encontrará de todo, incluyendo un viejo buscador de diamantes.
Don't Bother to Knock
Screenplay
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
Alive and Kicking
Screenplay
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
The Beggar's Opera
John, the Footman
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
The Beggar's Opera
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Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.