Jack Gold

Jack Gold

Nacimiento : 1930-06-28, London, England, UK

Muerte : 2015-08-09

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Gold (born on 28 June 1930) is a British film and television director. He was part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Gold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Jack Gold

Películas

Goodnight, Mister Tom
Director
We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now children evacuated from London are overwhelming volunteers to house them. Practically under protest, Mr. Tom takes in a painfully quiet 10-year-old, who gradually reveals big problems.
Into the Blue
Director
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.
Heavy Weather
Director
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
El regreso del nativo
Director
Inspirada en el relato homónimo del escritor inglés Thomas Hardy. Eustacia Vye es una hermosa y enigmática joven que sueña con salir del opresivo, pero también idílico ambiente de Edgon Heaths, donde vive con su abuelo. Cuando Clym Yeobright regresa de París a su pueblo natal, se enamora de Eustacia. Pero, también, el joven Damon Wildeve, hechizado por la belleza de la muchacha, decide aplazar su boda.
Spring Awakening
Director
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
Der Fall Lucona
Director
The Last Romantics
Director
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
She Stood Alone
Director
Prudence Crandall establishes herself in Cantenbury, and starts a girls-school. When Eliza Harris, a black girl, wants to take lessons at this school, the local people resist and forbid their daughters to go to the school any longer. William Lloyd Garrison, writer of The Liberator, helps Prudence to turn her school to a black girls-school.
The Rose and the Jackal
Director
Detective Allan Pinkerton, working for the Union, becomes obsessed with Southern socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy.
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Director
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
A la caza del lobo rojo
Governor
El sargento Gallagher es enviado a Alemania para custodiar a un peligroso prisionero que va a ser extraditado a los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, una vez en el aeropuerto, el criminal huye, y Gallagher tendrá que encontrarlo.
Nuevos rebeldes
Judge
Una película acerca de conflictos generacionales. La dramática historia de Tim Doolan (Adam Horovitz), un adolescente que termina en un centro psiquiátrico para jóvenes, después de haber pasado por un correccional. A medida que el muchacho relata su vidaal doctor Don Bloomfield (Donald Sutherland), psiquiatra del centro, se va conociendo su historia, sus antecedentes familiares y personales, y las circunstancias que lo convirtieron en un delincuente. (FILMAFFINITY)
El décimo hombre
Director
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en un campo de concentración, los nazis toman una macabra decisión: ejecutar a uno de cada diez hombres, que son seleccionados al azar. Uno de ellos es Louis Chavel, un rico abogado que ofrece toda su fortuna a quien quiera ocupar su lugar en la ejecución. Un hombre aceptará la propuesta. Inspirada en la novela homónima del escritor británico Graham Greene. (FILMAFFINITY)
Stones for Ibarra
Director
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.
La escapada de Sobibor
Director
Sobibor es un pequeño pero activo campo de concentración, donde la única esperanza de salvación es la huida. Existe un plan para sacar de ese infierno al mayor número de personas posible, pero hay que tener en cuenta que, de prosperar la fuga, los alemanes tienen como norma eliminar a tantos prisioneros como hombres consigan escapar.
Murrow
Director
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to his TV documentary series "See It Now" and his confrontations with the Senator from Wisconsin that helped put an end to the witch-hunts.
Me and the Girls
Director
George Banks recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe.
Sakharov
Director
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
The Chain
Director
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Good and Bad at Games
Director
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge
Macbeth
Director
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Red Monarch
Director
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
L’Elegance
Director
1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman.
Praying Mantis
Director
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Bavarian Night
Director
The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
The Merchant of Venice
Director
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
El pequeño Lord
Director
Ceddie, un niño pobre de Brooklyn, se convierte en el heredero del título y la fortuna de un conde inglés. Pero el testamento contiene una cláusula que lo obliga a vivir a Inglaterra con su abuelo, un viejo cascarrabias de carácter frío y amargado
A Walk in the Forest
Director
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.
Charlie Muffin
Director
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
The Sailor's Return
Director
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.
Alarma, catástrofe
Producer
El famoso escritor inglés John Morlar, un hombre que vive atormentado debido a una revelación, según la cual él es el culpable de todos los males del mundo, muere brutalmente asesinado. Cuando la policía llega a su apartamento, la mente de Morlar, sin embargo, parece seguir viva. La investigación del caso parece indicar que todo el que hiere a Morlar muere de forma extraña. Morlar posee poderes telequinésicos que le permiten matar o provocar terribles catástrofes. Su psiquiatra tratará de ayudar la policía a resolver este enigmático caso.
Alarma, catástrofe
Director
El famoso escritor inglés John Morlar, un hombre que vive atormentado debido a una revelación, según la cual él es el culpable de todos los males del mundo, muere brutalmente asesinado. Cuando la policía llega a su apartamento, la mente de Morlar, sin embargo, parece seguir viva. La investigación del caso parece indicar que todo el que hiere a Morlar muere de forma extraña. Morlar posee poderes telequinésicos que le permiten matar o provocar terribles catástrofes. Su psiquiatra tratará de ayudar la policía a resolver este enigmático caso.
Ases del cielo
Director
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un joven oficial recién salido de la Academia llega al frente Occidental para participar en el combate aéreo contra los alemanes, pero las posibilidades de supervivencia de los pilotos aliados no es muy alta. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Naked Civil Servant
Director
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Yo, viernes
Director
Inspirada en "Robinson Crusoe", la famosa novela del escritor inglés Daniel Defoe. El narrador de la historia es "Viernes". Los días de soledad de Robinson Crusoe (Peter O'Toole) tocan su fin, cuando un indígena (Richard Roundtree), único superviviente de un rito tribal, aparece en la isla. Crusoe le da el nombre de "Viernes", y lo toma a su servicio como criado. Como pertenecen a culturas radicalmente distintas, los conflictos cotidianos entre ambos son inevitables: Robinson pretende que Viernes aprenda y adopte sus costumbres, pero el nativo no puede ni quiere olvidar sus orígenes. Sin embargo, se da perfecta cuenta de que para sobrevivir en el extraño mundo del hombre blanco, no tendrá más remedio que actuar con astucia y cumplir, aunque sea aparentemente, sus normas.
El hombre de la máscara de acero
Director
Tras sufrir un accidente de tráfico que lo deja destrozado, un científico americano es capturado por los rusos. Después de reconstruirlo con piezas metálizas lo devuelven a los Estados Unidos. Una vez allí, los agentes del servicio secreto deberán descubrir si se trata del mismo hombre o si es un espía infiltrado.
Católicos
Director
Ambientada en un futuro próximo. Como consecuencia de un movimiento ecuménico (Concilio Vaticano IV), la Iglesia católica se ha unido a otras religiones y ha eliminado gran parte del dogma original del catolicismo. Un grupo de monjes irlandeses se rebelan contra esta situación y reaccionan volviendo al pasado: empiezan a decir la misa en latín y a actuar según el dogma católico tradicional. Así las cosas, Roma decide enviar a un representante (Martin Sheen) para que investigue lo que está ocurriendo
The National Health
Director
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Director
The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
Stocker´s Copper
Director
In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is forced to take in one of the policemen as a lodger. They soon become friends, but escalating tension at the mine means that conflict will become inevitable.
Mad Jack
Director
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
The Reckoning
Director
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
Faith and Henry
Director
A coming of age story of an interracial relationship.
The Bofors Gun
Director
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
The Lump
Director
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
The Solitary Billionaire: J. Paul Getty
Director
Alan Whicker interviews billionaire J. Paul Getty, who discusses reports of his meanness, his unsuccessful marriages, why he keeps working and what he's had to sacrifice to become the world's richest man.
The Visit
Director
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.
Food for a Blush
Editor
A surreal journey through bohemian Chelsea in the mid-1950s.
The War That Never Ends
Director
La guerra del Peloponeso contada a través de entrevistas a figuras importantes griegas