Alan Bridges
Nacimiento : 1927-09-28, Liverpool, England, UK
Muerte : 2013-12-07
Historia
Director de cine británico nacido en Liverpool. Estudió en la Dovedale Road School de su ciudad natal. Después de pequeñas apariciones como actor en cine y televisión, dirigió sus primeras película, el policíaco Act of murder (1964) y la fantasía de ciencia ficción, Invasion (1965). Sin embargo, el reconocimiento internacional no le llega hasta siete años más tarde, cuando recibió la Palma de Oro del festival de Cannes por El equívoco, magnífica adaptación de la novela de L. P. Hartley, en la que el especialista en papeles de duro Robert Shaw y la británica Sarah Miles interpretaron a una dama y su chófer. Su siguiente película fue el drama protagonizado por Vanessa Redgrave Out of season. El retorno del soldado (1982) cuenta la historia de un soldado que regresa del frente sin memoria. Alan Bates, Julie Christie y Glenda Jackson encabezan el reparto. En La cacería (1985), Bridges volvió a contar una historia ambientada en una de las épocas que mejor conoce, el principio del siglo XX. En los días previos al estallido de la primera guerra mundial algunos de los hombres más poderosos de Inglaterra se reúnen en una mansión para cazar y conspirar. Esta crítica visión de las instituciones británicas contó con un reparto de lujo, encabezado por James Mason en la que sería su última película.
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Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
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Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.
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1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
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Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
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Terminada la Primera Guerra mundial (1914-1918), un oficial tendrá dificultades para reincorporarse a la vida civil porque padece un grave problema de amnesia.
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Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.
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Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson. Unfortunately, it triggers aggressive behavior in Billy which he directs toward John.
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Un médico de edad madura se enamora de una chica intelectual menor de edad.
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Un médico de edad madura se enamora de una chica intelectual menor de edad.
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One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
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A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
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A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
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Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...
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Dos desconocidos, ambos casados con otras personas, se reúnen en una estación de ferrocarril y se encuentran en una relación breve pero intensa.
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The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."
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Una viuda de clase alta (Sarah Miles) que se recupera de una crisis nerviosa, intenta escapar de un mundo de conversaciones banales en torno a una taza de té, contratando los servicios de un chófer (Robert Shaw). (FILMAFFINITY)
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TV Movie directed by Alan Bridges
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Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
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Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
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Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
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The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
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The play by William Shakespeare.
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TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.
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The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
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Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.
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Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...
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A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
