Alan Gibson

Alan Gibson

Nacimiento : 1938-04-28, London, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 1987-07-05

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Gibson (April 28, 1938, London, Ontario, Canada - July 5, 1987, London, UK) was a Canadian director active in British film and television. Particularly notable for his work in horror, cinematic films directed by him include the 1968 Journey to Midnight, the 1970 Crescendo, the 1974 The Satanic Rites of Dracula, the 1977 Checkered Flag or Crash and the 1982 Witness for the Prosecution, along with the 1974 television play Churchill and the Generals. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Gibson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alan Gibson

Películas

El día de Martin
Director
Martin Steckert, harto de estar durante años en prisión, sueña con volver a experimentar la sensación de libertad que sentía en su infancia. Lejos de la celda de Steckert, en un pueblo de Ontario, un niño llamado Martin vive una normal, pero solitaria existencia. A primera vista, ninguno de los dos tiene nada en común, excepto el nombre. Un buen día, Steckert escapa de la cárcel, toma a Martin como rehén, y se dirige a un apartado lugar junto a un lago donde solía disfrutar de pequeño. Esta experiencia será el inicio de una amistad, proporcionando a cada uno la libertad y la aventura de la que están tan necesitados.
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Director
Another Flip for Dominick
Director
Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick's students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982.
Witness for the Prosecution
Director
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
A Woman Called Golda
Director
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Writer
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Director
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
The Two Faces of Evil
Director
A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
Churchill and the Generals
Director
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Checkered Flag Or Crash
Director
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary.
Sleepwalker
Director
A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of witnessing a murder in a strange house - or is it a dream?
The Capone Investment
Director
Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.
The Playboy of the Western World
Director
A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
Los ritos satánicos de Drácula
Director
Londres, años 70. El inspector Murray de Scotland Yard, investigando unas extrañas muertes, llega a la conclusión de que se enfrenta a un caso de vampirismo. Decide entonces pedir ayuda al profesor Van Helsing, famoso investigador experto en la materia y desacendiente de un famoso cazador de vampiros. Al parecer, los asesinatos están relacionados con una secta satánica de la que forman parte destacados miembros del gobierno de su Majestad.
Murder In Mind
Director
Mystery author's wife confesses to murder.
Drácula 73
Director
Londres, años 70. Johnny Alucard, un discípulo de Drácula, organiza una ceremonia de magia negra en un desolado cementerio para resucitar al siniestro Conde. Entre las víctimas que Alucard atrae al cementerio está Jessica Van Helsing, nieta del más famoso cazador de vampiros de todos los tiempos. Su abuelo intentará salvarla utilizando todos los recursos necesarios para atrapar y destruir a Drácula.
Goodbye Gemini
Director
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
Concierto inacabado
Director
Una joven estudiante norteamericana llega a Francia para escribir una tesis sobre un famoso compositor ya fallecido. Tras conseguir alojamiento junto a la familia del músico en la casa donde éste vivía, una aislada villa en el campo, la chica se da cuenta de que hay algo raro en el ambiente, como si la casa o sus habitantes ocultaran algún oscuro secreto.
During One Night
Harry
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.