Compton Bennett
Nacimiento : 1900-01-15, Turnbridge Wells, Kent, U.K.
Muerte : 1974-08-13
Historia
Director de cine británico nacido en Turnbridge Wells (Kent). Tras iniciar su carrera en el teatro, se dedicó en exclusiva al cine, donde junto a labores de montador y ayudante de dirección en los populares y prestigiosos estudios Ealing, se inició en la realización de cortometrajes, entre los que destaca Men of Rochdale, dedicado al mundo de la minería del carbón. Debutó con la notable El séptimo velo (1945) con guión de la ganadora del Oscar, Muriel Box. Esta producción británica cuenta la caída en la neurosis de un pianista magistralmente interpretado por James Mason. My own true love (1949), supuso su primera película americana de la mano del productor Val Lewton. La adaptación de la famosa novela de John Galsworthy, La dinastía de los Forsyte (1949), su siguiente trabajo, contó con una de las mejores interpretaciones de Errol Flynn, al que acompañan en el reparto Greer Garson y Janet Leigh. Su película más famosa y galardonada fue Las minas del rey Salomón (1950), codirigida con Andrew Marton; se trata de la mejor adaptación de la primera novela de H. Rider Haggard, interpretada por Stewart Granger y Deborah Kerr. Tras un difícil rodaje en África, consiguió tres nominaciones a los premios de la Academia, de los que logró el de mejor montaje y el de mejor fotografía para el espectacular trabajo de Robert Surtees.
Producer
Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs.
Writer
Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs.
Director
Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs.
Director
A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.
Producer
A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.
Director
A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.
Director
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
Screenplay
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby -- and especially to Toby's bride-to-be, Eve Atwood. Eve's ex-husband, Ned, had his eyes set on something Lawes possessed.
Director
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby -- and especially to Toby's bride-to-be, Eve Atwood. Eve's ex-husband, Ned, had his eyes set on something Lawes possessed.
Director
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Director
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
Director
Basado en una historia real ocurrida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando un comandante de la Marina británica preparó a sus hombres para enfrentarse a la flota alemana a pesar de estar en clara inferioridad de condiciones. El valor de los militares ingleses quedó para siempre en la memoria del pueblo inglés, al otorgarles una gran victoria moral.
Director
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Director
El marido de Elizabeth Curtis ha desaparecido en algún lugar de África mientras intentaba encontrar las minas de diamantes del rey Salomón. Para encontrarlo, Elizabeth contrata al aventurero y explorador Alan Quartermain y le ofrece una recompensa de 5.000 libras.
Director
Historia de amor de una mujer de alta alcurnia, que se acaba enamorando del prometido de su sobrina, lo cual deparará inesperadas consecuencias.
Director
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
Director
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Director
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Director
Una joven abandona su casa y llega a ser una gran concertista de piano, pero su mente se desequilibra a causa de la actitud de su psiquiatra y su guardián.
Associate Producer
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Editor
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Writer
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
Director
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
