Peter Maxwell

Nacimiento : 1921-01-23, Vienna, Austria

Muerte : 2013-04-05

Películas

Platypus Cove
Director
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
Fluteman
Director
When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain, and even stops it; the town council, blind by their greed and pride, refuse to pay him. Fluteman stands before the town and warns them of a curse he would bring; and so the next day the school playground fades into silence as all the children disappear into the bush... except one.
Fuerzas especiales-z: Plan Lyon
Director
Un joven australiano (Capitán Page), enrolado en las Fuerzas Especiales Z, es nombrado para llevar a buen fín el "Plan Lyon". Con el fín de establecer una ruta de escapada hacia Sumatra. En una arriesgada aventura el comando que dirige el Capitán Page lleva acabo su peligrosa misión y distribuyen minas en el lugar donde se almacena cargamento militar y tanques japoneses. La playa rápidamente se convierte en un inmenso infierno y las 40.000 toneladas de material son destruidas. Tras este éxito, se planea un segundo ataque, pero las cosas van mal esta vez. Trece miembros de las Fuerzas Z resultarán muertos y los 10 restantes son capturados y encarcelados en Singapur, entre ellos Page. Aquí comienzan seis meses de torturas e interrogatorios y de caballerosos gestos de amistad entre presos y carceleros. Todos ellos, hombres de honor.
Mystery at Castle House
Director
A trio of kids have many exciting adventures while exploring a spooky mansion in the hope of finding their missing friends.
Run Rebecca, Run!
Director
Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Hostility melts into friendship before the rescue boats arrive.
Touch and Go
Executive Producer
Tres organizaciones sociales atractivas que trabajan con fines benéficos recurren al robo para mantener abierta una escuela primaria especial para niños desfavorecidos.
Touch and Go
Director
Tres organizaciones sociales atractivas que trabajan con fines benéficos recurren al robo para mantener abierta una escuela primaria especial para niños desfavorecidos.
Plunge Into Darkness
Director
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
Mama's Gone A-hunting
Director
A psychotic prison escapee and his young partner decide to kidnap a wealthy couple's baby and hold it for ransom. Little do they know that the babysitter wants the baby for herself.
Is There Anybody There?
Director
A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.
Polly My Love
Director
An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.
Country Town
Director
In this movie version of "Bellbird" (1967) a reporter, Philip Henderson stirs up the town further when they are already suffering with a drought.
The Switch
Director
A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
Impact
Writer
Crime reporter Jack Moir is framed by crooked nightclub owner, 'The Duke'. In prison, Moir plans his revenge.
Impact
Director
Crime reporter Jack Moir is framed by crooked nightclub owner, 'The Duke'. In prison, Moir plans his revenge.
Serena
Director
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
Dilemma
Screenplay
Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.
Dilemma
Director
Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.
The Desperate Man
Director
Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
Blind Spot
Director
Un oficial del ejército estadounidense ciego se ve implicado en un crimen, que resolverá después de recuperar la vista.
Tempestad sobre el Nilo
Assistant Director
En 1865, el Regimiento Royal North Harvey se dispone a partir para Egipto para sofocar la rebelión de los derviches. Al mismo tiempo, el oficial Harry Faversham ha decidido abandonar el ejército, decisión que no comparten ni sus familiares ni sus amigos. Nuevo remake de "Las cuatro plumas", dirigida también por Korda. En este caso incluso usó el mismo guión y parte del rodaje de la versión anterior.
The Cure for Love
Third Assistant Director
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.