Richard Best

Nacimiento : 1916-06-28, Hull, Humberside, England, UK

Muerte : 2004-12-19

Películas

Promises Promises...
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Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.
Robbie
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Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".
Dominique
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The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
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Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
Psicomania
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Una banda de adolescentes motoqueros llamada “The Living Dead” practican la violencia y desprecian las normas de la sociedad. Tom Latham (lider de la banda) vive con su madre y el mayordomo (George Sanders) en una imponente mansión. La señora Latham, tras una vida dedicada a la magia negra y al espiritismo, deja que su hijo descubra el secreto de la vida y la muerte, haciendo un pacto con el Diablo. Ahora Los Living Dead, cruzarán la barrera de la vida para transformarse en seres inmortales.
Please Sir!
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Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistc teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues the local barmaid and the class indulge in their usual activities. A small feud with some stereotypical upper class children in red blazers is resolved with a false rape allegation. A case of some stolen money is resolved through Mr. Hedges trusting the class. At the final dance Mr. Hedges is ensnared in the romantic clutches of Miss Cutforth, contrary to his wishes.
La Garra de Satan
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Siglo XVII. Unos niños juegan en los campos que rodean su pueblo y se encuentran con unos extraños restos que se asemejan a una garra. El juez local se hace cargo de investigar su procedencia. Al poco de iniciar la investigación la garra desaparece y una extraña locura se adueña de los habitantes del pueblo. Los niños, bajo las órdenes de la siniestra Angel Blake, empiezan a participar en rituales donde los más jóvenes y puros son mutilados y sacrificados. Sólo el juez podrá exorcizar las fuerzas demoníacas que están destrozando su comunidad.
La sombra del zar amarillo
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John Hathaway (Gregory Peck), un importante científico americano, se entera de que que un antiguo profesor suyo está desarrollando en la China comunista un revolucionario sistema de cultivo capaz de adaptarse a cualquier clima. Las grandes potencias se muestran muy interesadas por el descubrimiento. El gobierno americano le exige a Hathaway que consiga la fórmula. Ante su negativa, deciden implantarle en el cerebro, sin que él lo sepa, un arma mortífera.
Otley
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A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Mi doble en los Alpes
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Un agente de la CIA, Dan Slater, tiene que trasladarse a Los Alpes austriacos, tras la muerte de su hijo en un accidente de esquí. Debido a las inconsistentes explicacionesque ofrecen las autoridades del país, Dan comienza a barajar la posibilidad de que la muerte de su hijo haya podido ser provocada. Un antiguo compañero, Frank Wheatley, le ayuda a investigar, y sus sospechas se van confirmando poco a poco. La muerte de su hijo forma parte de un sofisticado plan de los servicios secretos rusos para atraer al agente hasta Austria.
The Cracksman
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Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
Go to Blazes
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A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
School for Scoundrels
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Henry Palfrey se esfuerza mucho para impresionar a las chicas, pero siempre sale perdiendo. Entonces descubre un colegio especial dirigido por el profesor Potter que imparte cursos sobre los secretos del éxito.
Mirando hacia atrás con ira
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) es un hombre culto que, a pesar de su educación universitaria, apenas puede conseguir un trabajo en una tienda de caramelos. Así, Jimmy considera su vida personal y profesional muy frustrante, y vive, además, lleno de amargura a causa de la sociedad que le rodea.
No Trees in the Street
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Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
The Moonraker
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Un intrépido noble se dedica a salvar las vidas de muchos partidarios del rey Carlos Estuardo, depuesto por Oliver Cromwell
Fugitivos del desierto
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Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un grupo de soldados y enfermeras cruzan el desierto en una destartalada ambulancia con la intención de llegar hasta Alejandría. En el camino recogen a un misterioso personaje. (FILMAFFINITY)
Woman in a Dressing Gown
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A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
Policía internacional
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Victor Mature es un agente de narcóticos que persigue a un peligroso traficante. Dada la dificultad de la empresa, cambia de táctica y decide centrarse en su atractiva cómplice para llegar hasta él. Todo un reto también pues la tendrá que seguir por medio mundo.
The Silken Affair
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An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Now and Forever
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A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Yield to the Night
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Mary Price Hilton, una joven que ha sufrido muchos desengaños amorosos, encuentra por fin a un hombre que parece quererla de verdad, pero cuando lo sorprende con otra mujer, queda muy trastornada
Misión de valientes
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Los británicos están desesperados por acortar el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y proponen un atrevido bombardeo con el propósito de destrozar el corazón industrial de Alemania. Al principio, el objetivo parece imposible. Hasta que un científico británico inventa una ingeniosa arma capaz de destrozar al objetivo propuesto.
The Good Beginning
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After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
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A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
The Magic Box
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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.
The Dancing Years
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The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
The Forbidden Street
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Ambientada en la época victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Adelaide, una joven de buena familia que renuncia a todo para casarse con un artista venido a menos. Cuando su marido muere en un accidente, Adelaide es chantajeada por una despreciable arpía que la acusa de haber matado a su marido.
The Guinea Pig
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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.
Mine Own Executioner
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Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Fame Is the Spur
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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.
Desert Victory
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A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.
The Lambeth Walk
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Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.